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Transcript of Humans, Animals and the Environment Colorado College - Winter 2016
Colorado College February 25, 2016
MikeCallicrate.com
Humans, Animals, and the Environment
Restoring a vital, mutually beneficial relationship
So this is where you grew up...
What happened Grandpa?
The U.S. has lost nearly half of it’s ranchers, over 90% of it’s hog farmers and over 80% of it’s dairymen in the last 35 years.
2 "What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com
Photograph from the book, Great Ranches of the West ©2007 Jim Keen, All Rights Reserved Read a sample chapter and order the book at www.greatranchesofthewest.com – 800-363-5336
The National Security issue
no one is talking about!
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Eric Schlosser, author of the best seller Fast Food Nation, has an apt description of the industry. Over the last twenty years, about half a million ranchers sold off their cattle and quit the business. Many of the nation’s remaining eight hundred thousand ranchers are fairing poorly. They’re taking second jobs. They’re selling cattle at break-even prices or at a loss. The ranchers who are faring the worst run three to four hundred head of cattle, manage the ranch themselves, and live solely off the proceeds… Ranchers currently face a host of economic problems: rising land prices, stagnant beef prices, oversupplies of cattle, increased shipments of live cattle from Canada and Mexico, development pressures.
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MikeCallicrate.com
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. 1 Timothy 6:11
Grocery Manufactures Association
There is money in the food business…
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From Walmart to Cargill, the Masters of the Food Universe Convene!
Trucks in St. Francis, KS Sept. 6, 2009
Old Calnon place, So. of St. Francis
Winter day on Webster St.
Meanwhile, back on the farm…
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"What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com
St. Francis, Kansas - May 2013
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"What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com
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Enrollment in St. Francis schools is 50% of thirty years ago.
Emptiness: A picture of big meat packer retaliation – Why cattle feeders won’t speak out against meat packer abuses…
Callicrate Cattle Co., 1999 10 "What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com
Callicrate Cattle Co., 1999
Farmers and Ranchers
Eaters
BIG FOOD Exploiting producers, consumers, and
animals while destroying the planet
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"There seem to be but three ways
for a nation to acquire wealth: the
first is by war, as the Romans did,
in plundering their conquered
neighbors --- this is robbery; the
second by commerce, which is
generally cheating; the third by
agriculture, the only honest way,
wherein man received a real
increase of the seed thrown into the
ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the
hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent
life and his virtuous industry.“
Benjamin Franklin, "Positions to be Examined Concerning National Health," April 4, 1769
"The husbandman that
laboreth must be the first
partaker of the fruits"
- St. Paul This inscription appears over the portico
of the U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters in
Washington, D.C.
USDA has assisted Big Food in driving
family farmers and ranchers from the land.
Normalizing the Unthinkable - the gradual turning away
from the natural path from God’s garden to our tables
The policy-driven transition from family farm agriculture,
it’s good stewardship, husbandry, and healthy food, to
today’s destructive industrial food system, was planned
and managed over the last fifty to sixty years.
Once nutritious whole grain bread is now unhealthy, highly
processed Wonder Bread. Family hog farmers have been
replaced with hog factories and gestation crates. Poultry
farmers have become indentured servants and debt
slaves. Pink Slime, produced with Zilmax, is now called
beef.
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Animal Husbandry has been replaced with Animal Science, Ag Business, and the worship of technology
"What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com 17
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men
who will deal likewise with their fellow men." - St. Francis of Assisi, Roman Catholic friar, founder of the Franciscans Order
"What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com
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“Despite the intervening century, with it’s dizzying array of technological advances and dramatic social reforms, meat and poultry processing early in the twenty-first century is regrettably reminiscent of what Sinclair (The Jungle 1906) described early in the twentieth.”
Farmers and Ranchers
Eaters
THE RANCH FOODS DIRECT SOLUTION
BIG FOOD
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Their grazing helps our dehydrating planet retain moisture in the earth, contributing to global water supplies. Vandana Shiva – Winner of Monsanto’s “Bullshit” award
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For fertile soils, happy animals, and good food, we must recombine crop and animal agriculture on family farms.
A better, more direct route for producers and consumers wanting to know where their food comes from…
Mobile meat processing unit and portable corral system at Callicrate Cattle Co., St. Francis, Kansas - September, 2013
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Slaughtering animals where they are raised means: - More humane treatment - Less stress means better quality meat - 37% less weight transported to market - Slaughter waste becomes valuable soil nutrients - Increased rural employment
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Refrigerated trailer transports carcasses from mobile unit to cut plant
"What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com
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Carcasses from mobile unit are cut into primals and boxed or hung for dry aging
"What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com
“They sell things from somewhere else and take the money away…everyday.” - Francisco Chavez, Ranch Foods Direct delivery driver referring to Sysco
The industrial ag pantry is filled with…
…if you’re a shareholder?
• Human exploitation • Animal suffering • Environmental degradation • Community destruction • Family farm & rural decline • Degenerative diseases
"What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com
Your local family farm pantry is filled with…
Got a farmer? We’ll GROW your food!
Greenhorn Acres
• Love • Good health • Great taste • Family meals • Community • Good stewardship • Good husbandry
“Eating local means more for the local economy. A dollar spent locally generates twice as much income for the local economy. When businesses are not owned locally, money leaves the community at every transaction.” - Marcy Nameth, Arkansas Valley Organic Growers
"What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com
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“In the beginning God entrusted the earth and its resources to the common stewardship of mankind to take care of them, master them by labor, and enjoy their fruits. The goods of creation are destined for the whole human race.” – Catechism of the Catholic Church
The SOIL initiative – Sustaining our interdependent livelihoods
Family farmers, ranchers, and consumers working together building new alternative connections from farm to plate
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Planting the seeds of new life and prosperity, from rural main streets to urban centers.
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Creating a new community space for eaters, growers, family farmers, ranchers and local businesses, separate and safe from Big Food and Wall Street.