Once we become sustainable with a living income, then we can work towards regenerative practices and cool things like soil health.
Returning to a local/regional carcass trade is more efficient, keeps money in the community, and delivers a better and safer product to the consumer.
“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.
Great conversation – a lot there that will fit into my concept for neighborhoods and another that is for smaller rural communities. The Market Utility Group – start with ‘end in mind’ -.
The portable facility – putting with feedlots (simple & just makes sense).
Appreciate that the moderators let you talk.
Agree with anti-trust efforts and neighborhood, community groups like you were mentioning is a means to change the public conversation and then vote accordingly.