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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
Economists Spread Meat Packer Propaganda
March 29, 2002 Economists Spread Meat Packer Propaganda By Mike Callicrate “Concentration in the beef processing sector has increased dramatically over the last quarter century,” says Kansas State University agricultural economist, big meat packer expert witness and defender, … Continue reading
Appeals Court Lets IBP Suit Stand
Appeals Court Lets IBP Suit Stand The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) – The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has declined to review an appeal of a ruling against the nation’s largest meat packer, IBP Inc., that granted the lawsuit class-action … Continue reading
Where’s the Beef?
A PUBLICATION OF THE AUBURN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE March, 2002 Agricultural & Resource Policy Forum Where’s the Beef? Monopoly and Monopsony Power in the Beef Industry C. Robert Taylor Rapid consolidation in meatpacking in the last two decades raises … Continue reading
Rancher’s Crusade Against a Modern Monoploy
Rancher’s Crusade Against a Modern Monoploy – Full Story (PDF)
Reining In The Big Meat Packers – Restoring Freedom and Fairness – At what cost?
February 22, 2002 Reining In The Big Meat Packers Restoring Freedom and Fairness – At what cost? � By Mike Callicrate � The effects of banning big packer ownership of livestock should be insignificant to the market considering the number of … Continue reading
