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African-American Farmers Struggle
Posted on November 19, 2004
Free Range Graphics' The Meatrix exposes the factory farming system's abuses of animals, laborers and the environment. The biological and ethical crisis happening in today's agribusiness industry is not a new phenomenon but the result of decades of profit-driven practices — including racist lending practices perpetrated by the USDA:
Damien Jackson of Alternet writes:
The Department of Agriculture has admitted to discriminating against African American farmers and paid out hundreds of thousands in damages. But for many farmers, the damage can't be undone.,,Today, 18,000 black farmers collectively own less than 1 percent of all farms. African American farmers have disappeared at three times the rate of their white peers.
Read 40 Acres and a Mule, Denied.
Watch The Meatrix.