Author Archives: Mike Callicrate

Building Community Around Local Food – Montana Organic Association (MOA) 2020 Conference

See Mike Callicrate’s presentation at the MOA Conference here:   View the slideshow directly here:   Links from slideshow listed below: Slide #17: https://meathaccp.wisc.edu/assets/beef_carcass_dry-aging.pdf Slide #18: https://sites.google.com/site/communityfoodutility/ Slide #21: Link 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHX6Ejbk8O0&app=desktop Link 2: https://nobull.mikecallicrate.com/2018/01/24/rotten-exposes-a-deeply-corrupt-and-broken-food-system/ Slide 25: Link 1: https://farmactionalliance.org/cargillfoodfraud/?emci=989ff322-6d2e-eb11-9fb4-00155d43b2cd&emdi=4869c4b9-6f2e-eb11-9fb4-00155d43b2cd&ceid=13997041 … Continue reading

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The Full Dinner Pail – 1900

“… any man who is conversant with current conditions, knows that government, instead of being used for the benefit of the many, has been used for the benefit of the few; that by means of subtle legislation, the mass of … Continue reading

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Upton Sinclair On the Supreme Court

“I see by the papers,” as Mr. Dooley used to say, that the Supreme Court has wiped out the farm program…” From the Farmers Union Herald, St. Paul, MN, 1936 – Thanks to Tom Giessel, Larned, Kansas for the article. … Continue reading

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Is it Efficiency or Atrocity?

The big meatpackers need us to believe that without their efficiencies we would all starve. Nothing could be further from the truth. In his May 2020 whitepaper concerning proposed legislation intended to help restore competition to the cattle markets, Colorado … Continue reading

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Who will Justice Amy Coney Barrett Represent?

President Ronald Reagan appointed pro-corporate, de-reg, no-rules judges to our nation’s highest courts. Has President Trump done the same? “He’s in Tyson’s pocket, He’s in Tyson’s pocket!” said New Mexico rancher, Sam Britt, during the opening days of the 2004 … Continue reading

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