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Jay and Yolanda started Affordable Food Network for the exact reasons of Wilson and Walton. As far as we know, Affordable Food Network is the only African American owned Meat and Seafood Company in America. Affordable Food Network was created due to Hurricane Ike, the hurricane that hit the southeast coast line of Texas and Louisiana. During their evacuation to Memphis, Tennessee Jay Sumlin’s birth place, Mr. & Mrs. Sumlin found the food quality both poor and expensive. This food quality was unlike the meat and seafood quality that they are accustomed too in Kemah and Katy, Texas where they live.
Jay took a job selling meats door to door from a truck with a freezer on the back. After a few months of working in the meat industry Jay began to understand how the meat business worked. “This is very different from my husband’s background,”
“This is not about race this is about families, American Families and I will not be silenced until this problem is rectified,” says Yolanda Sumlin. I have joined my husband in this mission and that is why we opened our company to ensure that families can get kosher meat and seafood at a low prices. We have two plants one of which is located in Ocala, Florida ran by Jan Costa and his wife Leslie and the second in Jupiter, Florida also ran by the Costa’s. None of our meats or seafood are imported or exported. Many large companies are hurting our American Farmers because; they are buying a large volume of imported meats. “We are not putting profits in front of human life, to us it doesn’t make sense to do business like that,” says Jay Sumlin. “We care and we are not just talking about it we are doing something about it” says the Sumlin’s.
During the 2009 Presidential election the message that came clear was “to find a cause greater than your self.” This is the message that we have taken to heart. The USDA is doing all that it can to protect American Families and Farmers. However, it is the responsibilities of companies, employees and the consumers to report any irregularities regarding food safety and quality. We hear Congress and the sports commission talking about steroids and yet they say nothing about steroids being in our food supply. We talk more about obesity and poor health in regards to Americans. But do we consider what is being put into our meats and vegetables? If you do not this is foolish.
“We want people to love each other unconditionally and to help those in need. If we can encourage others to be apart of this movement the entire world would benefit and there would be no more need for wars,” says the Sumlin’s.
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