A century after her grandfather claimed his freedom from slavery, Elsie Herring and her community fight for the right to | dG1fMWJIU0ZTNFp5Zzg
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00:00 (soft music)
00:02 - They are poisoning our soil,
00:04 poisoning our groundwater,
00:06 poisoning people, fellow Americans.
00:09 They are stealing from them in the present
00:11 and stealing from future generations.
00:13 - If it does not touch you in an emotional way,
00:16 if you really get in to look at this issue,
00:19 whether it's from an environmental standpoint,
00:22 an animal rights issue,
00:24 whether it's a human rights issue,
00:26 whether it's an antibiotic use issue,
00:28 if you can walk away from this saying,
00:31 "No big deal, you need to come talk to me.
00:33 Come spend, let me take you for three days
00:36 and let you sit down and talk to these people
00:38 who have to live with this every day.
00:40 Matter of fact, let me let you live in their shoes
00:43 for a day and see if it doesn't change your mind."
00:47 - No, and ain't nobody helping us do nothing.
00:49 They don't care because we black,
00:51 we back up in the country.
00:53 I just hope my house don't get burned up
00:55 in the lights from top to the east.
00:57 - I'm sure he's somewhere peeping now.
00:59 You can believe that.
01:00 He got his boys on you.
01:02 - What make you think you have a right
01:03 to set up a hog farm and destroy my way of life?
01:08 People don't have access to clean air
01:10 and clean water anymore.
01:11 - One of the most disturbing stories that I've heard
01:14 is the sensation of being sprayed with shit, basically.
01:19 - I have seen this stream filled with feces and urine
01:23 from this hog operation right up here more than one time.
01:26 - Almost every fish in the river died.
01:28 Over a billion fish died in a period
01:31 of about a week and a half.
01:33 - Everyone that's on this road gotta help the fish.
01:35 Every one of us, trust me.
01:37 - Our health is at stake here.
01:39 To raise animals in this way puts all of us at risk.
01:44 - It is time that the village stand up,
01:48 step up, and speak up.
01:50 - If these people had lived in McMansions,
01:53 it would have been a different story.
01:56 - It's the power to control.
01:58 That's what drives Van to the end of sanity.
02:03 - All the laws protect these industries.
02:07 No one is protecting us.
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