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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 Tells Senate to Eliminate Captive Supplies
The Organization for Competitive Markets presents Senate testimony today calling for a ban on packer ownership and to transform captive supply contracts into an open, public bid market. OCM also calls for specific reform of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s … Continue reading
Hearing on Proposed Ban on Packer Ownership of Livestock and USDA’s Enforcement of the Packers & Stockyards Act
WRITTEN TESTIMONY OF THE ORGANIZATION FOR COMPETITIVE MARKETS presented to the UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION AND FORESTRY July 16, 2002 Hearing on Proposed Ban on Packer Ownership of Livestock and USDA’s Enforcement of the Packers & Stockyards … Continue reading
Cattlemen seek antitrust reins on packers
Published Sunday May 12, 2002 Cattlemen seek antitrust reins on packers BY BILL HORD WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER In spite of a congressional setback with the latest farm bill, about 300 cattlemen sent a signal Saturday that they aren’t going to … Continue reading
Cattlemen sue packers – ‘a line in the sand’
Published Saturday May 11, 2002 Cattlemen sue packers – ‘a line in the sand’ BY BILL HORD WORLD-HERALD BUREAU LINCOLN – A group of Midlands cattlemen filed class-action lawsuits Friday claiming that the meatpacking divisions of ConAgra Inc. and Cargill Inc. … Continue reading
Power Steer
March 31, 2002 Power Steer By MICHAEL POLLAN Photographs by Marcus Mâm for The New York Times The author’s Black Angus steer in his South Dakota youth. Forum: Does knowing more about beef make you want to eat it less … Continue reading
