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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
Category Archives: Beef Checkoff
Stop the Strip Mining of Rural America With Commodity Checkoffs
Update, August 15, 2012 – See the following article from 2010: After campaign promises to fix agricultural markets and multiple hearings proving the dire need for immediate anti-trust law enforcement, the Obama administration did nothing. The departure of antitrust cops … Continue reading
Blue Ribbons/Red Faces: Packer control of NCBA
by Lee Pitts I did not attend this year’s NCBA Convention in Phoenix. I haven’t been to one since I quit the organization four years ago. I know that as a journalist I have a certain responsibility to report on … Continue reading
Posted in Beef Checkoff
Tagged Blue Ribbon Commission, Bruce Bass, Cargill, Chuck Lambert, Chuck Schroeder, ConAgra, Continental Grain, Dreyfus, Farmland, Fast Track Coalition, General Mills, George Swan, IBP, Jack Dahl, Mike Callicrate, multi-national corporat, NCBA, Nestle, U.S. Premium Beef
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