COMPANY TAKING A STAND AGAINST LOW QUALITY FOOD
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Posted By: Yolanda Sumlin on June 23, 2009 Every now and then someone cares about the everyday consumer. I remember a few business icons of generation’s past like Kemmons Wilson the founder of Holiday Inn and Sam Walton the founder of Wal-Mart. What they have in common is their reason for going into business. They both went into business to help the everyday family save. There are others that I could mention, but these two men are more closely knitted to Jay and Yolanda Sumlin owner’s of Affordable Food Network. 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,” says his wife Yolanda. “Jay has spent most of his professional career in finance,” stated Yolanda Sumlin. Mrs. Sumlin went on to say “My husband and I took a great interest in caring about food quality not only for ourselves but about all American Families. I would like to point out that food qualities in low income areas are terrible. The cost is much higher and the food quality is much poorer, if I did not witness this myself I would not have believed that something like this could happen in America.” “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. The Sumlin family name is known world wide thanks largely to Hubert Sumlin, the musical Blues Legend. It is also known in the sports world with Fresno States Running Back #34 Bryson Sumlin and Houston Cougars Head Coach Kevin Sumlin. Jay and Yolanda are also known worldwide because of their invention of The Parlay Wheel. I asked Mr. & Mrs. Sumlin about their involvement with gambling and Jay quickly responded by saying, “The Parlay wheel is not a gambling website nor is it involved in promoting gambling. Let me point out the benefits of The Parlay Wheel for people that do bet on sports. The system is designed to help reduce the odds of losing thru using a correlated system of covering all outcomes of a two outcome game. Again, this is our way of helping people by putting the odds of winning in the favor of the consumer and not the corporations. We don’t want to give a negative image of our intentions with The Parlay Wheel for people that frown on gambling, we care about both the gambler and people that are concerned about the food quality of what our families are eating, we are not here to judge anyone or what they do, we are just doing our part to help the consumers and that is our greatest concerns,” says The Sumlin’s. “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. You can visit the websites owned by Jay and Yolanda Sumlin www.affordablefoodnetwork.com and www.theparlaywheel.com Contact information 877-862-4183 Address 3170 Corley Beaumont, Texas 77701 Email:affordablefood@yahoo.com Article written by: Cretia Hall Affordable Food Network If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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Yolanda Sumlin
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