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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 -
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.
- 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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Corporate Power and Our Food – What If People Knew?
UCCS What If People Knew? – Winter 2012 from Ranch Foods Direct “People are fed by the Food Industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the Health Industry which pays no attention to food.” Wendell Berry … Continue reading
Posted in General Advocacy, Presentations
Tagged Ammonia-Treated Beef, Back to the Start, Beef Products, Chew On This, Chipotle, Cornered, fast food nation, Genetically Engineered Maize, Inc., industrial food, McDonald's, Mike Callicrate, Monsanto, Safe Food, Sodexo, Supersize Me, UCCS Winter 2012, USDA, Wal-Mart
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Feeding Our Families and Our Farmers
By MIKE CALLICRATE “You’ll never look at dinner the same way again.” — Food Inc. film Since the 2008 film Food Inc. pulled back the curtain on industrial food production, corporate agribusiness has been scrambling, doing damage control. A food … Continue reading
