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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
Men Who Lie On Their Bellies
Concentrated power and wealth has always been one of the greatest threats to a free society, so why have we been unable to avoid this dire threat to our freedom and liberty? From Albert Einstein, Historical and Cultural Perspectives, Page … Continue reading
Concentrated power is still the main problem – Corporations still have a free hand to pillage and plunder!
Thanks to Tom Giessel, Larned, Kansas
Stewards of Our Industry
Ranchers have been mostly good stewards of their land and livestock, but what about their industry? By Gilles Stockton As I sit here contemplating how to begin this essay, the driving rhythm of Sonny and Cher’s hit “The De -Beat … Continue reading
A Recap of the fight to restore COOL in 2019
January 6, 2020 Cattle producers now have the dubious distinction of being betrayed by the President and both political parties. There was no Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) in the recent vote by the House of Representatives to re-do the … Continue reading
