American Antitrust Conference 2015
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This document summarizes Mike Callicrate's presentation on entrepreneurship and antitrust from a livestock producer's perspective. It discusses the consolidation of the meatpacking industry, showing pictures of empty towns and declining school enrollment as small producers have been forced out of business. It notes that concentrated market power in the hands of a few large corporations has led to concentrated wealth and political power for those corporations. The presentation calls for moving away from the current destructive industrial agricultural model to one that regenerates soils, restores health, and rebuilds communities by supporting local producers and businesses.
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American Antitrust Conference 2015
- 1. Entrepreneurship and Antitrust A Livestock Producers Perspective June 17, 2015 Presented by Mike Callicrate MikeCallicrate.com
- 2. Emptiness: A picture of big meat packer retaliation – Why cattle feeders won’t speak out against meat packer abuses… Callicrate Cattle Co., 1999 2
- 3. "What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com 3 Enrollment in St. Francis schools down 66% since 1970.
- 4. "What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com St. Francis, Kansas - May 2013 4
- 5. Grocery Manufactures Association Concentrated market power has led to concentrated wealth and political power… 5
- 6. N7100C – Cargill N199HF – Hormel Foods N97SJ – J.M. Smucker N1897S – J.M. Smucker N135FT – Albertson’s N46E – Hunt N604CL – Hershey N654CM – Crossmark Corp. N457H – Bank of America N606RP – Nestle Purina Pet Care Co. N102CX – Clorox N545CS – Wells Fargo N604MU – Dean Mfg. Group 6"What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com
- 7. Trucks in St. Francis, KS Sept. 6, 2009 Old Calnon place, So. of St. Francis, KS Winter day on Webster St. Meanwhile, back on the farm … 7
- 8. “You should be suing Walmart [instead of IBP], they are the problem. They tell us what they will pay and we have no choice but to pay you less.” - John Tyson, 2002 responding to the IBP antitrust case. 8"What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com
- 9. 9 “Agriculture is a business, not a way of life!” "What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com Teaching of land-grant institutions from around forty years ago to present has left us with an extractive and destructive model of industrial agriculture.
- 10. How do we move from the destructive industrial model of agriculture to one that regenerates our soils, restores our health, and rebuilds our communities? Image by Harry Greene
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- 12. “They sell things from somewhere else and take the money away…everyday.” - Francisco Chavez, Ranch Foods Direct delivery driver The industrial food pantry is filled with… • Human exploitation • Animal suffering • Environmental degradation • Community destruction • Family farm & rural decline • Degenerative diseases "What we support prospers, what we feed grows." - MikeCallicrate.com
- 13. "What we support prospers, what we feed grows." MikeCallicrate.com 13 Creating a new community space for eaters, growers, family farmers, ranchers and local businesses, separate and safe from Big Food and Wall Street.