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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: Cattlemen’s Legal Fund
OCM’s Cattlemen’s Competitive Market Project Applauds Favorable Decision in Cattle Price Manipulation Case
April 11, 2003 OCM’s Cattlemen’s Competitive Market Project Applauds Favorable Decision in Cattle Price Manipulation Case Lincoln, NE ~ The Organization For Competitive Markets’ Cattlemen’s Competitive Market Project (CCMP) applauded the recent decision of the trial court in … Continue reading
Feedlot owner files lawsuit against KC-based meat packer
Tue, Dec. 17, 2002 Feedlot owner files lawsuit against KC-based meat packer By ERIC PALMER The Kansas City Star � Kansas City-based Farmland National Beef used its market power to punish a small Kansas cattle feeder that publicly criticized the … Continue reading
What can you do?
What can you do? By Lee Pitts I think we were all surprised at how little time it took for independent pork to be transformed into hog house janitors for the big packers. After the piggish pork packers drove the … Continue reading
Battling for the Packer Ban
September 3, 2002 Battling for the Packer Ban By Kari Lydersen, AlterNet As with auto companies buying up steel plants or office supply companies owning lumber outfits, vertical integration and mass conglomeration are quickly becoming the name of the game … Continue reading
An Open Letter to National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Leadership
August 30, 2002 An Open Letter to National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Leadership Dear Wythe Willey, NCBA President; Eric Davis, President Elect; Jan Lyons, Vice President; and Terry Stokes, CEO: After reading your open letter to cattlemen, it is clear that … Continue reading
