New Rules

"So when the chicken plant closed down that was a big deal. And I watched my in-laws with their chicken farm go through–now talking about rules and regulations in special education, the rules and regs of I don't know what department, agriculture department–the government put on them was incredible. Some of them had to go out of business because you know they're private companies, they grow for private companies. But the private companies would come down with the federal rules and regs, 'you gotta do this' or the state one of them. ‘You gotta do this.’ Well then they have to spend money to do that. To upgrade their chicken houses unless they got a way. Even the disposal like my father-in-law had a um it was like a septic tank in the ground and it had this big concrete lid on it with this iron bar coming out of it and you had to open it and throw your dead and he had to pick up dead everyday. We got exposed to chicken farming and we would get behind the mule truck and it would smell so bad or when they would spread manure all on the fields especially at Chatham Central cause they're fields all across the street and it would smell. And my boys got exposed to chicken farming"