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“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 -
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.
- This Cattleman's Got A Beef
Photo: Sean Cayton - 2003People producing good food from happy animals, while improving the environment, shouldn’t have to fear the government.
Photo above featured in a 2003 article: This cattleman's got a beef, Mike Callicrate and Ranch Foods Direct take on the big meat packersby Kathryn Eastburn
Good job, Mike and all. I had hoped to be there myself but couldn’t get away this morning in time. Thanks for standing up for us.
Al Davis
Independent Cattlemen of Nebraska
Came in toward the end. Hope you have a link so I can hear it all and share with others. Particularly interested in the Wild Lands Project and Agenda 21 to take the land and think many groups outside of rural communities need to hear that woman talk about it so they understand what’s up and not think this is about conservation or environmental protection but a new form of land seizure.
Thanks for all you are doing. You’re giving people a direction – whether cattlemen or farmers or other kinds of food producers. Coordination sounds like a way to go to stop this.
Great press conference. Will there be a way to get a copy of the broadcast?
Will there be a written summary of the press conference and information on coordination? Appreciate R-Calf all the more that it opposed Agenda 21 long ago. What happened to Mike Callicrate has jogged some necessary awareness in people who had reflexively trusted those federal agencies.
I can’t express how appreciative I am for everything you are doing. The government needs to take a step back and look at everything that the small businesses and farmer ranchers do for there communities and this country. Once again Thank You for fighting back for everyone.
Mike,
Shop at Ranch Foods Direct in Colo Spgs all the time. This is link to website that is always the first to expose Big, bloated govt that is progressively, rapidly taking aim at the small farmer, rancher. I have used this site for years and it has always been trustworthy on a consistant basis. The government has gone beyond the pale in Michigan with this outrage.
http://www.naturalnews.com/z035372_Michigan_pigs_farm_freedom.html