1. Corporate Power and Our Food
What if people knew?
Profit over animals, the
environment and people
UCCS - Winter 2012
Mike Callicrate.com
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2. At a conference in Philadelphia last October
[2011], a Wharton professor noted that one of the
country's biggest economic problems is a tsunami of
misinformation. You can't have a rational debate
when facts are so easily supplanted by overreaching
statements, broad generalizations, and
misconceptions. And if you can't have a rational
debate, how does anything important get done? As
author William Feather once advised, "Beware of
the person who can't be bothered by details."
- Motley Fool contributor Morgan Housel
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3. USDA, Inc. : How Industry Captured the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
“Thanks to its political influence, Big Agribusiness has
been able to pack USDA with appointees who have a
background of working in the industry, lobbying for
it, or performing research or other functions on its
behalf. These appointees have helped to implement
policies that undermine the regulatory mission of USDA
in favor of the bottom-line interests of agribusiness.”
Released At the Food and Agriculture Conference of The Organization for Competitive Markets, July
23, 2004, Omaha, Nebraska 3
4. Delusions of the Corporate
State
Sunday 17 February 2012
by: Evaggelos Vallianatos, Truthout | Op-Ed
“The world now is more complicated and
dangerous than the world of 1961. Communism
is almost gone, but capitalism in America has
evolved into a toxic system of poisoning and
devouring the earth for profit while, for the Wall
Street oligarchy, it is a method of enrichment.
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5. “The America I discovered during two years of
work on Capitol Hill and 25 at the US
Environmental Protection Agency was a mean-
spirited place caring very little about the natural
world or human beings. In fact, the rulers of
America thought it was perfectly legitimate to
embrace the flag of business, including the
mission of agribusiness, even though that
entailed the systematic poisoning of all nature
and humans.
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6. "Agribusiness and other large corporations
have now resurrected a "modern" version of
feudalism. By which I mean they have so much
power that they poison democratic institutions.
In addition, this global oligarchy is not merely
putting the peasant and small family farmer out
of business, but it is aiming at total control of
the world. It is doing in the open what armies of
conquest do in the cover of darkness.
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7. “Aristotle would say America no longer serves
the public good, its government being held
hostage by an oligarchy on the verge of
becoming a tyranny, by far the worst form of
organization or constitution or government.”
Delusions of the Corporate State
Sunday 17 February 2012
by: Evaggelos Vallianatos, Truthout | Op-Ed
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8. "This book explains
how food companies
use science as a
political tool to
oppose requirements
to keep harmful
microbes out of
food.....
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9. “In this book, we will see how the failure of
food companies, scientists, and government
agencies to recognize the need to address
values as well as science in matters of food
safety leads to widespread distrust of the food
industry and its regulators.
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10. "We will see how food producers repeatedly deny
responsibility for foodborne illness, invoke
science to promote self-interest and divert public
attention from harm caused by their products, and
express outright hostility to federal oversight.”
Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety - Marion Nestle
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11. The Dark Side of the All American Meal
“Fast food has hastened the mauling of our
landscape, widened the chasm between rich and
poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled a
juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad.” 11
14. What if people knew…
Beef Products Inc.’s ammonia-treated beef
Feeding pet food, pathogens
and fertilizer to people
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15. Upgrading the round, By Alan Newport
New research in Oklahoma may help upgrade one of the
largest segments of the beef carcass: the round.
Meat scientists have been working with a system that injects
finely ground fat and lean tissue combined with a brine solution
essentially to add marbling to the lean muscles in the round.
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16. Cook to well done!
USDA ignores serious health threat
Tenderizing technique puts eaters at risk
Surface pathogens are now inside
Most food service/restaurant steaks are blade tenderized
“Stampede Steak Co. recalls 739,000 pounds of steaks for e-coli”
- IDPH Press Release -- 7/3/2003
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17. HACCP Hoax
“We have the safest food supply in the world.”
Confessions of an E.coli Terrorist
HACCP: From inspection to non-inspection
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22. What if people
knew that in order
to communicate
in the typical big
slaughterhouse
you had to speak
110 different
languages?
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23. The Wages of Food Factories
By Don D. Stull and Michael J. Broadway
Online publication date: 21 April 2010 23
24. How US Policies Fueled Mexico's Great Migration
Fausto Limon looks at his bean plants, knowing they need
more fertilizer, but lacking the money to buy it.
January 23, 2012 edition of The Nation. 24
26. What if people knew that the U.S.
looks to Monsanto to feed the world?
At the 2011 World Economic Forum
in Switzerland, the director of the
U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID), Rajiv
Shah, stood shoulder-to-shoulder
with the CEOs of Monsanto and
other agribiz corps in support of GE
crops. Sound sinister? That’s
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because it is.
27. Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning in
France
(Reuters) - A French court on Monday
declared U.S. biotech giant Monsanto guilty
of chemical poisoning of a French farmer, a
judgment that could lend weight to other
health claims against pesticides.
By Marion Douet
PARIS | Mon Feb 13, 2012
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28. Genetically engineered maize:
New indication of health risks
Bt protein toxic to human cells
15 FEB 2012
According to the new publication, even
extremely low dosages of Roundup (glyphosate
formulations) can damage human cells. These
findings are in accordance with several other
investigations highlighting unexpected health
risks associated with glyphosate preparations.
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29. Mystery Disease In Central America Kills Thousands
In this Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 photo, relatives mourn
for Segundo Zapata Palacios inside his home in
Chichigalpa, Nicaragua. Zapata, who worked as a sugar
cane cutter for 20 years at the San Antonio sugar
plantation, died of chronic kidney disease on Jan. 26 at
the age of 49.
Huff Post - Thursday, Feb 13, 2012 29
30. The Scary Danger of Meat
(Even For Those Who Don't Eat It)
January 30, 2012
The government has rolled over once again for
Big Meat and we may be in more danger from
antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
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31. Thanks to Obama, cattlemen lose out
News - November 22, 2011
by Stephanie Paige Ogburn
When four companies control 80 percent of the supply
in a marketplace, even the most conservative
economists would admit there's a high potential for
market manipulation.
"We always lose. If we win, we still lose, because these
big corporations get the final vote. They own this
government," said Callicrate, who participated in a price-
fixing lawsuit against Tyson and who has led efforts to
reform the meatpacker monopoly.
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32. When we lose
our markets, we
lose our freedom!
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33. "You should be suing
Wal-Mart [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
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34. "These guys are nothing but old-
time gangsters, thugs and
thieves. They beat your brains in
with their market power and take
your money."
- Mike Callicrate
http://www.nobull.net/CattlemenLegal/news/2004/1-31-04MikeResponse.htm
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35. What if people knew about Sodexo?
Sodexo is an international food and facilities
management company with 380,000
employees in 80 countries. Around the
world, its workers argue that Sodexo’s
employment practices violate their workers’
human right to their own livelihood.
Student movement to Kick Out Sodexo
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36. Barry Lynn's Cornered is...
"A manifesto for our time."
--Thomas Frank, Wall Street Journal
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37. How to feed the world?
Agribusiness-Industrial Model:
Diminishing global resources,
inequality, hungry people, declining health
or
Traditional Family Farming-Community Model:
Proven ecological practices,
people feeding themselves,
good health, healing the earth
Photograph by Louis Daria, Your Shot
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38. Back to the Start
Chipotle film on sustainable farming
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41. Manure - A cow’s greatest gift!
In praise of cow dung - Vandana Shiva told Hillary Clinton that
India’s cow dung was worth more than her Wall Street stocks.
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43. We cannot separate what we
believe from how we act in the
marketplace and the broader
community, for this is where we make
our primary contribution to the pursuit of
economic justice.
- U.S. Bishops 1986
What we support prospers,
what we feed grows!
More info at www.MikeCallicrate.com
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![At a conference in Philadelphia last October
[2011], a Wharton professor noted that one of the
country's biggest economic problems is a tsunami of
misinformation. You can't have a rational debate
when facts are so easily supplanted by overreaching
statements, broad generalizations, and
misconceptions. And if you can't have a rational
debate, how does anything important get done? As
author William Feather once advised, "Beware of
the person who can't be bothered by details."
- Motley Fool contributor Morgan Housel
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