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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
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Another Bad Idea from NCBA – The A-PLUS Act is not a solution
A-PLUS legislation allowing auction markets to invest in and/or own slaughter plants is a step backwards in local/regional food system development. April 11, 2022 It is not surprising that the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) is promoting another bad idea, … Continue reading
‘Broken systems raise costs far faster than resilient ones.’
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, March 13, 2022 ‘Broken systems raise costs far faster than resilient ones.’ Alan Guebert One of the most beautiful–and inexplicable–aspects of economics is how its practitioners never seem to be wrong. … Continue reading
Ok, here’s how we fix it.
When the markets are gone, and the game of monopoly is over What Happened Grandpa? The big-four meatpackers income will be regulated and limited to the drop credit value of the animals they slaughter. Big food retailers and food service … Continue reading
‘After-The Fact’ Price Reporting is No Solution to Cattle Crisis
May 25,1999 ‘After-The Fact’ Price Reporting is No Solution to Cattle Crisis Analyzing the Proposed Price Reporting Bill The present Packer-NCBA proposal is a disgrace and disservice to cattle producers and should be completely discarded. In some ways this proposal … Continue reading
Dear Colorado Senators – Labeling our beef should not be voluntary
Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper should stand with Coloradans and support mandatory COOL Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) for beef is back on the menu. The American Beef Labeling Act (S. 2716) is a bipartisan food security bill that would guarantee consumers know … Continue reading
