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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 -
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.
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- 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
Author Archives: Mike Callicrate
We’re almost there, and with a little help from the American Angus Association …
Over thirty years ago, Dr. William Heffernan was traveling the country warning cattle producers of the dangers awaiting them in contract poultry growing, how it enslaved growers with debt and relegated them to a life of servitude under the boot … Continue reading
Message to MAHA: When Globalization and the Monopoly Game are Over …
See the following presentation by clicking the arrows in the top left of the image: The U.S. is unable to feed itself:
Corporate Controlled Globalization – Early Warnings to U.S. and Canadian Producers
As the U.S. economy reels from the impacts of tariffs, and cattle and beef supplies run short, we should go back and try to understand how we got here. How a handful of corporations leveraged Canadian and U.S. producers against … Continue reading
Fast Food Nation To Barons – What Happened to the U.S. Food System?
How a nation, once able to feed itself and others, lost its food system and became dependent on imported food …
Building a truly permanent and sustainable food system
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 … Continue reading
