“Changes will not simply happen…Changes will occur when consumers realize what they’ve been eating, get angry, and demand something different…It remains our responsibility, with every vote and every dollar spent on food, to start making it right.”
– Eric Schlosser, foreword to Slaughterhouse Blues
“The money and political power of Wall Street has stolen America’s food system, bankrupted our farmers and ranchers, mined our soils, polluted our environment, wasted our precious water, and left us with expensive industrially produced food that makes us sick.” – Occupy Wall Street Food Day, December 2011
Industrial Agriculture and Urban Sprawl – A model of growth that’s made to fail.
Ranching Reboot Episode 4, Mike Callicrate “It’s time for a third revolution against monopolies”
Above: Ranching Reboot – Episode 4 – Mike Callicrate, owner of Ranch Foods Direct, sat down with us to talk about all manner of things from cattle markets, to public food spaces, the Bander, his feedlot and the pathway he built to market.
He shares valuable lessons learned from fighting against the commodity production system and how he’s built his own pathway to the consumer.
We talk about small community slaughter plants and public meat spaces and what that could look like going in to the future. We discuss environmental challenges, the food police and what it means when a Dollar General comes to town.
“Walmart and Sam’s Club will begin offering fresh ground beef that does not contain LFTB. We’re committed to providing our customers with quality products at the right prices.”–Quoted from The Nation magazine.
So I read this as Walmart and Sam’s Club will continue to purchase and sell Pink Slime, and will some how give customers a choice to buy beef without it. But can anyone explain how customers will know which products have it, and which don’t?
Will they label each package? Will they label certain display cases as having Pink
Slime product, and other displays clearly labeled as “Pink Slime Free.” Will they offer Pink Slime free beef in a few stores, but not others? How does Walmart and Sam’s Club intend to provide their customers with a transparent choice, since federal law does not require any such distinction in meat labeling?