Mike Callicrate | No-Bull Food News

How a nation, once able to feed itself and others, lost its food system and became dependent on imported food …

There’s a lot of talk about rebuilding local/regional food systems, sustainability, and regenerative practices, but it’s all talk until we restore farm gate income to a level that allows people to return to the land with a quality of life that makes them want to stay.

The big ag and food monopolies have  zero intention of giving up their unfair share of the food dollar, so let’s go around these greedy and powerful middlemen and build thriving rural communities and healthy urban centers.

2016 – Becky Elder introduces me to PINA:

Real World Ranch Restoration

Ranchers struggling to survive deserve to know what happened to their markets, and who is complicit in the destruction of agriculture’s largest industry. We all have a stake in this.

Use arrows at the top of slide to advance through the presentation.

Notes: Click on this link for slide 26, the video in the Dr. Heffernan slide: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2UQsw_qdy8s

Other references:

Vicious Circles – Big meat packers continue to suck the blood out of cattle industry

Big meatpackers are gangsters, thugs, and thieves

Emptiness: https://nobull.mikecallicrate.com/2010/08/02/history-repeated/

Vice: Meathooked and End of Water

Salt, Water, and Soil – When it’s gone, they leave

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-07-02/jbs-brazilian-butchers-took-over-the-world

Meat Cartel Threatens Food Security

https://apnews.com/article/d6dcbfa7ebcb4842b9ad49e44615c5e0

Texas A&M, and Other Land-Grant Economists, Lead Effort to End Competitive Livestock Markets

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-jonathan-kanter-delivers-remarks-fordham-competition-law-0?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The Antitrust Revolution, by Barry Lynn: https://harpers.org/archive/2024/10/the-antitrust-revolution-big-tech-barry-c-lynn/

Boxed beef was a bad idea: https://nobull.mikecallicrate.com/2024/01/22/return-to-carcass-trade-is-essential-for-cattle-industry-and-rural-prosperity/

Maker-Owned Marketplaces

McDonald’s is suing Tyson Foods for allegedly choking the supply chain to raise prices

Global corporations have now taken control of many industries.

Companies like Walmart and the Dollar Stores are gutting the last of the money from our communities in America. At the same time, companies like Cargill and JBS take every advantage that they can from smaller companies.

Local-based businesses definitely care more about the people, the environment, and the economy of the towns they live in than the massive companies named above. It’s time to start changing the current atmosphere by building businesses that create wealth for families and the communities we live in.

This is the story of a man who is doing just that. Make sure you join my community at https://www.skool.com/lifeinthewest for more videos, exclusive content, and to find those who are creating local products that we can support.

From Tom Giessel, Larned, Kansas:

Go inside the rigged game of Big Beef and discover many differences between the giant Beef Industry and the local community-based storefront. This video is about Mike Callicrate’s story of deception and bribery as well as his will to build a community-based food system that actually benefits the places where we live.