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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
Sustainable Ag Conference Panel Takes Aim at America’s Food System
NEWS RELEASE – November 29, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SUSTAINABLE AG CONFERENCE PANEL TAKES AIM AT AMERICA’S FOOD SYSTEM By Mark Parker When it comes to making the American food system more diversified, sustainable and family farm friendly, “Happy talk … Continue reading
Coordination, a 4 Part Video Series, by Fred Kelly Grant
FRED KELLY GRANT and the 10th Amendment – Part 1 FRED KELLY GRANT and the 10th Amendment – Part 2 FRED KELLY GRANT and the 10th Amendment – Part 3 FRED KELLY GRANT and the 10th Amendment – Part 4 … Continue reading
“Confessions of an E.coli Terrorist” 9-Part Series
Food Safety News published a 9-part series entitled “Confessions of an E.coli Terrorist”. The report focuses on systemic problems within USDA’s deregulated system of meat non-inspection, which has insulated the largest plants from meaningful USDA oversight. In extraordinary detail, the … Continue reading
Feeding Our Families and Our Farmers
By MIKE CALLICRATE “You’ll never look at dinner the same way again.” — Food Inc. film Since the 2008 film Food Inc. pulled back the curtain on industrial food production, corporate agribusiness has been scrambling, doing damage control. A food … Continue reading
“Fighting for the U.S. Cattle Producer” News Conference, and Live Internet Broadcast Audio, at Callicrate Cattle Co at 1:00PM CST – Recorded on 09/20/2011
“This is essential listening if you want to understand the challenging landscape for small family and mid-sized farms and cattle ranches trying to make it on their own and support their communities.” – Bill Howard, Editor, The Colorado Catholic Herald … Continue reading
