By Mike Callicrate
June 27, 2021
“Livestock should be at the center of the new farm and ranching operations. We need to think about how we build soil health, how we sequester carbon through well-manged grazing programs.”
“We need to reassert, what is purpose of antitrust? It’s to prevent monopoly!”
What’s the difference? Thanks to Brenna Quinlan.
“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.
Mike. You hit it out of the ballpark with this one. Gilles
Thank you for creating this video! Well said, and a wonderful & comprehensive call to action!
I have no doubt that creative thinkers working in harmony are the solution, and the more we connect, the faster positive change will accelerate.
—Sandra Knauf (Greenwoman Market)