How to Beat BIG BEEF when the BEEF Industry is RIGGED!
2024 ж. 26 Сәу.
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Go inside the rigged game of Big Beef and discover many differences between the giant Beef Industry and the local community based store front.
This video is about Mike Callicrate's story of deception and bribery as well as his will to build a community based food system that actually benefits the places that we live.
Order some beef or pork from Callicrate’s store by going to ranchfoodsdirect.com/.
This information is ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS!!! As a carnivore, I live 5 hours away from Colorado Springs and would be absolutely willing to drive to his store there, buy a lot of his frozen beef and pork and drive all the way back home with it just to support him. I refuse to buy the awful, bad-tasting beef from those big, evil, monopolizing meat packers who supply meat found in Albertson's, Walmart and other supermarkets. I am on a mission to support local ranchers and employees, to vote with my dollars for the best beef that will send the message to the monopolizers that I do NOT support their idiocy of choosing profits over people and proper nourishment. Period. Thank you, Trinity, for this fantastic interview and education!
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TRINITY, THIS PIECE OF WORK IS A SEMESTER'S WORTH OF AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS IN 41 MINUTES.
I’ve been telling people this for 30 years and they thought I was stupid
Same but I live on a ranch.
I resemble that comment!
Problem is, those people you're telling are about as stupid as the cattle we raise.
What a great man, we need people like this in Montana...
We need people like this everywhere
It would be much clearer if you made clear whom you're referring too 😉
In every community.
Someone needs to have him give seminars on how to set up such operations in their area and provide assistance to do it.
Trinity, you should get in touch with Dr. Ken Berry to talk about the need for accessible beef, the lost of the meat - especially beef - industry in America will be catastrophic for the health of humans.
I agree 100%. Dr.Berry would be a great interview.
😊 I've been on a carnivore diet for over a 6 months now Best lab work I've had in years my doctor was very Happy 😊
@@deborrahdutra5599 I’m at 90 days. It’s been good for weight loss. Initially saw a massive reduction in inflammation but some is holding on and tiredness never went away. But I came from the words form of the SAD diet possible. Culver’s and a large concrete mixer several times a week. Pretty sure my body is in bad shape. Getting some tests for nutrients to see if I am depleted and going to supplement for now while body heals.
@@deborrahdutra5599 Same here. Been on the carnivore Diet for 2 months, Lost 12 pounds so far. Starting to feel much better.
Yes, or Dr Shawn Baker or many of the other carnivore and keto docs out there.
Thsnks for the information. There is a group of ranchers in Utah doing the same thing. This is what it takes to get big business out of our lives! Thanks Trinity!
Please provide info on this Utah group--name, location, website, etc. Thanks.
Trinity, you knocked it out of the ballpark , again! I’m with you all the way! Keep up the excellent work!❤️🙏🏻✝️🐂
It’s the same thing with vegetables. What you grow at home is 10x better the what the store sells! We need to go back to small farms feeding the community’s, the way it was in our grandparents days and before!
You should see what the state of Oregon is doing to the small farmers and meat,dairy.and egg production. Google Oregons stance on small farmers it’s disgusting. Wake up America
It isn’t just democrats it is also republicans they both are responsible for this problem under bush jr jbs was allowed to just walk in and with in I think or 2years buy up almost 30 percent of beef market and the rest of the meat processing industry then trump allowed dfa to take control of the dairy industry in 2019 and 2020
WE NEED TO STOP OVER FEASTING ON MEAT. IT HAS BECOME AN ATTROCITY!
@@THEROOTMATTERSLook up carnivore diet. So many people getting rid of all manner of diseases with it.
@@THEROOTMATTERSno one is forcing you to eat meat
These guys had better be sitting in the state capitals, making sure laws and regulations aren't passed to screw them over once again. You can be sure the "free marketers" are working on it right now.
Maybe you should be paying closer attention to what you are voting for and who!
@@Rick-np9vz see my other comment.
It is Crony Capitalism, not Free Market Capitalism, that causes this.
Wow Mike's pigs actually know what sunshine is!
Mike should work with someone to spec out the entire system he uses so it can be duplicated and setup in as many locations as possible and then become a large thorn in the side of the giant meat packers. This would also be a benefit for the cattle ranchers and hog producers.
Very Good video, everyone needs to see this. Thanks for Sharing this. 😊
Best yet!! Hopefully you get picked for the next Secretary of Agriculture and get the USDA turned in the right direction.
I buy my beef from a friend who is a rancher in Montana...All grass fed, no antibiotics unless really needed. I have a half a cow on the way. Best beef ever. I can't even stand the smell of say Walmart beef. GREAT vid Trinity...keep em comin.
This is absolutely true. I found this out to be exactly what he said when I lived in Idaho and we raised or I should say I raised a calf. Purposely use for food on our table. It’s totally flipped and for rancher and Farmers literally impossible to even survive
It's not over till it's over
WOW Trinity such good information. I have not eaten meat for years because the grocery store meat does not taste like "Meat" anymore. I had no idea all of this was happening. Meat Mafia ...UGH
I buy mine from a friend here in Montana...it's the best ever. I do know what you mean about grocery store meat...it smells funny.
Best video ever. We need to remove the government interference that is only helping making our food bad.
This guys lived experience should be a lesson for all of us younger folk. Big business and govt have worked hand in hand for decades to bring us to where we are at today. Food prices are astronimical, people are sicker than ever, and small businesses have been forcred out of the market. Generations before us were sold the lie and we are now seeing how the lie has unfolded for us regular folk. Bigger is not always better. For those of us able to we need to get back to supporting small business owners, local community and local producers. Your country was founded on this and it has unfortunately been hijacked by corrupt greed.
This is such important information.
Trinity, another great video! I raise and sell beef locally. I never have complaints about the quality of my beef. It saves customers money and is financially better for me as well. Keep the videos coming. What was the story on the pen of Scottish Highlanders?
What breed of cattle do you raise!
@@petermartens1645 Scottish Highlanders, very docile, much easier to handle, and excellent taste.
The Highlanders belong to a customer we feed and process for. Excellent quality!
Great listen. Examples of corporate greed and how government accommodates it. Very smart man
Two very smart men right here! Hopefully people wake the hell up and support community and real beef swine and poultry producers by buying direct from producers
I'm going to a local butcher this week. Their website says they get their beef from Iowa. A local farm, here in Florida, tried starting up a grass fed brand. Their packaging was messed up and air in the package disturbed me. I think they gave it a couple of tries and now they are gone. It looked like sabotage to me. Who the heck would do that?
I listen to a podcast called barn talk on you tube. They have started a mail order producer to consumer deal called Farmer Grade. Actually I work for a grocery outfit that they talked about where there were in store butchers that processed the carcas at store. Wegmans Food Market. About 25 yrs ago they stopped having that done in stores. The butchers were offered the opportunity to get CDL and drive or work elsewhere in distribution. I live in Upstate NY. I have ordered grass fed online from a few places. After listening to this podcast I am going to start to buy from a local meat mrkt in Canaseraga,NY. It is about a 45 minute drive from me but we'll Worth it. Another great you tube podcast is five generations of cowboys. I know nothing about processing meat and have been driving for Wegmans for 25 yrs and drove other places before here.
That's a nice operation. The info in the video is top notch. I can't even begin to afford those prices. In the Ozarks I'm getting grass fed angus for $1.50 over retail per pound and even cheaper by quarter or half carcass. Because people here believe in helping the AVERAGE family eat healthier and we support out local farmers. Everyone comes out ahead. Not just the ranchers.
Great interview! This guys got it figured out. All the sucess to him! Grow local, sell local, buy local. Eat healthy.
I remember the meat cutting schools and union jobs available in the 70s and 80s. It used to be a good career in local markets.
Belonged to Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union. Great Job in Greeley CO in the 70's! Meat Diets in those days tasted so much better. Whatever they are putting in meat today ❓GROSS! [popular 60's word! 😄]
One of my cousins was a AMCU meat cutter Butcher who lost his good paying job and trade in Detroit, early 80's, directly as a result of this BS in the US REGIME~
So do I,but I also remember what the union did to their members in British Columbia when a large at the time non union chain came into the market.assesed the existing members to fund unionization campaign,then signed a deal gutting the existing contract of those members.next negotiations the employer threw that contract on the table,said there's our new contract,turning good mortgage capable jobs full time into wage ghetto jobs part time no benefits for all new employees.of course management cut everyone's hrs that were grandfathered theyre wages till no longer viable .union got thousand plus more dues paying members though. Ufcw scummiest thing I've ever seen from a union .
@@joesutherland225 I’ve never been a union fan, but where they have a monopoly through state legislation, it can make for good wages and benefits. I’m generally against regulation and unionization. At the same time, they have been corporatizing and demonizing meat for forty years or more.
@@paulchristian8271 I'm totally pro union it's really the only way to get decent wages and benefits otherwise capital weilds the stick with no concern for the people doing the work. Keep them only 2 weeks from disaster then they can't fight back unless they team up or more correctly unionize
Trinity, I shared this on the various social platforms that I use. Thank you for this informative video.
A grocery store chain in CT (Stop & Shop) doesn't even cut meat in their meat department anymore. It all comes cryovaced from the packing plant now. Awful.
Which means it's not hanging and aging for bacterial protection. That's why there's so many recalls.
So very interesting - hope the trend continues.
We buy from our local college store - better meat and good prices. I actually worked on an independent local feedlot after high school in Southern California, in 1970. Very few kids ever get that chance anymore, especially in California.
You are indeed blessed to be a blessing. I send encouragement your way; and may God prosper your path because it is HIS.
Fantastic, this man is an inspiration. Thank You
Awesome! We buy as much of our food local as we can, and encourage all friends and family to do the same. We buy all our beef and pork local. People are sick and tired of poor quality food.
Great video that has described modern Agriculture
Trinity thanks so much . I hope too go to Kansas and Colorado Springs to see how it all works, this summer . We have a custom exempt plant in Arkansas for 17 yrs and are working on opening a retail market . We raise our own beef. This has been such a inspiration to me . Keep on keeping on . And God bless.
At 71 years old I’ve watched farmers getting less of the retail dollars. This as in the dairy farming business we started going down hill big time after Reaganomics set in. That let big corporations run over farmers. I went out of business in 2018 and I couldn’t recommend anyone going into farming business. Right now farmers are shopping the world for laborers. The government has created a big problem for food production in America. Those big corporations and families farming corporations are not producing future generations of laborers or management people. It’s all got to come from people that’s never been raised on a farm. Those government leaders hollowing close the borders have no idea how to run anything. This is going to cause big problems down the road. We were out spoken on corruption in dairy businesses and co-ops selling the farmers out. The southeast antitrust case proved that. DOJ didn’t criminally charge anyone for crimes against farmers. Big corporations are controlling USDA and FDA so farmers getting justice is out of question. I’ve been trying to get justice on my cases but USDA is blocking FBI investigations. Fact FBI does not investigate anything in Agriculture unless USDA invites them to. With head positions filled with big corporations people they’re not going to give farmers fair justice on anything. I’ve been feeling like I was farming under a dictator rule agriculture policy. That’s proven out to be right in most cases
This plan needs to be spread far and wide an get corporations out of the food industry!
Trinity, your presentations just keep getting better and better. This one was off the charts, thank you so much for that. BTW, Callicrate Beef pricing is reasonable. 80% ground beef is about a buck more than Costco and on par with the local grocery store chain. About the same for all the rest except the local grocery store chains are almost the same price!😎
Thank you. That is very humbling. I do my best to
Great content ❤🇺🇸
Another amazing video Trinity. This one really hits home....kinda makes me want to move to CO so I can live in that town and eat all that yummy beef and pork! Thanks again, have a blessed day.
Great video Trinity i always learn something new here thanks .
Excellent video! Thank you
Another GREAT VIDEO!!!
Thank you for another great video! I loved Mike's energy and passion for what he does. It is also wonderful that the carnivore and ketogenic way's of eating are mentioned in your videos. Slowly but surely the word is getting out there. BTW. Berkshire pasture raised pork is fantastic! :)
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Resilient and ethical businessman. I hope he can successfully put in the volume to keep operating on a comfortable margin. I suggest him to build a network of foreign customers who seek quality products in case the domestic business cycle gets interrupted for whatever reason. Great episode!
After I tasted locally raised chicken from a local butcher shop, I can't eat the crap from the grocery stores.
Putting in my order
Brilliant descriptive example of how it should be done. This is a prime example of responsible husbandry at work and the flow on in terms of real benefit to people and their communities is enormous. If only this were the norm, would we then need the big multi national companies dictating the terms?
This video is absolutely a must watch for anybody with any size of cattle operation. Analyzing content !
Thanks Man another great video! What an eye opener, wish I was closer I would patronize that guy. Just ate some of those inedible pork chops, had to laugh because that’s exactly what I thought…..THIS IS TERRIBLE……ate it anyway, worked all day I was hungry 😂
😄. I’ve done that a lot.
This guy and his business is the kind we all need to support and have in each community. Thank you for this very important and informative video
Mike Callicrate is really making the best of a bad situation.
This was very interesting.
If you ever get a chance to cook (locally produced) beef tongue, you will be blown away by the taste and texture. It's like the best roast you've ever eaten.
Open a hamburger stand in a large city. Build a small meat locker on your ranch. Butcher and grind your own cattle. Truck that meat to your hamburger stand and sell a quality burger at a fair price. Keep the hamburger stand basic. One burger sandwich. No frills just good beef. Ok, maybe sell fries too. You'd go through several calves per day easy.
Not legal, unless you get usda inspected facility which isn’t all that easy.
@@jlkkauffman7942 only has to be USDA inspected if crossing state lines to sell. You can in many states just have a state inspected facility as long as the meat isn't crossing state lines. And here in Indiana now the meat inspector doesn't have to inspect each carcass if it's custom butchering. So I can take cattle to the state inspected custom butcher shop and as long as it's coming home to my freezer it doesn't have to be poked by the inspector, if I want to sell my beef to the hamburger stand in town though I have to take it on a day when the inspector is going to be there. All of the custom butcher shops all over the state stay pretty booked up.
@@aroundthefarmcrafts3192 yeah I’m just going off of what I’ve read, I need to look into it because I’m going to start selling grass fed beef off the farm in the future, the problem is I live in Delaware and we have some ridiculous laws here.
Trinity Absolutely overwhelmed by the knowledge attained from this one video about the beef business and the quality derived.! Please keep it going..! God Bless..! WSG,Sr. aka Sandy PS: Now no missing link - From cow to market.!
Props to you, Man! Keep up the great job! You inspire me!
Great video. We watched it twice. And forward it to many friends. This man has it right.
GREAT episode, thanks to all involved!
When I was growing up in north alabama we raised our own hogs and chickens. We slaughtered and processed the meat ourselves. That meat and poultry had a much better taste than anything I've ever had since .even now we buy our beef from our neighbor who raised it and had it processed locally. That way you know what you are getting and it's good for the local economy and the community.
Really appreciate the insight in to the market! We (my family) own a small (1500~ acre) production unit (aka: The Farm! LOL!) that we channel through a (very) good cutter, that is not very happily close to us, and retail our own product locally, relying almost entirely on word of mouth to sell our production. I am immensely glad that we support a small business that provides a VERY good service as a slaughter an cutting house, as we do not yet have the capability locally to support. But I am also immensely happy that I do not have to make my business decisions, upon deciding just how slowly I starve myself to death, either. No Farmers, No Food! Perhaps stopping sending any food in to the cities would make that point clearer, to those who decided to support anti-farming initiatives!
I was a butcher and then a market manager for a large grocery chain back in the 1970’s. They brought us boxes of IBP to do a test run on. Without exception, all of the market managers did not like the product and didn’t want it in their market. The product had not hung for 14 days and was a smelly and wet product. Several years later, we were no longer butchering carcass beef. Money always wins.
Problem small gardener are having all around the country is many hay producers are spraying the hay that are killing independent gardeners field. Cows eat the hay and cows manure are used in the fields and kill broad leaves. Hay producer doesn’t say or tell people that has a few cattle feeding hay.
Thanks Trinity! I really appreciate you using your channel to shine light on this. And while I don’t feel like feedlots are particularly ideal, they’re necessary for large amounts of beef and it sucks when folks can’t make do because of these ridiculously tyrannical megacorporations.
In my case, I like to think of the feedlot as the sacrifice pasture, without the damage of overgrazing. Over the last 10 or so years we have been in a drought. The feedlot gives us a place to go with our cow herd instead of selling them off. It also allows us to increase the herd size for better impact in rotational grazing and is always there if the grass runs out.
Excellent video, very informative! Thanks to you and your guest.
What an eye opener. This ol boy is awesome. Thanks a ton. Glad I found your channel. 5 Stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Trinity - You knocked it out of the park? Watched lots of your videos but this lit a fire. Been thinking this for years. Together we can take back our world from the cabal. Keep up the great work.
Thank you, Trinity, for this video.. Now let's get it going here in Montana!!! Enough with these these fools to telling us where and how we are going to get our food!!! Awesome video!!!
I didn't catch if he shipped his products
Hi Trinity, thank you for sharing the facts plus exposing the corruption the food industry has. Growing your own foods is becoming the safest way to feed your family. God bless you
Very interesting & informative video. Keep up the good work. If enough people push back against the “meat mafia”, hopefully things will improve. We can only hope.
Thank you, very informative, I enjoyed watching this video, subscribed
Thank you Trinity for this information!! A few months ago you had him or another man talk about this very same PROBLEM! Since then, I've wanted to buy beef from a rancher. Thing is...I'm single and don't need much beef😢 Thank you so much for letting people know ❤❤❤❤❤ HAPPY TRAILS ❤❤❤
Finally some great news!
Couple things. I’ve never ever heard of Conagra running processing plants. My experience has always been 1. Cargill 2. Jbs 3. Tyson 4. Marfrig That being said if you want to combat this your only option is to produce, buy, butcher and sell locally. That’s the only shot you have.
ConAgra, formerly Monfort, was purchased by Swift and then sold to JBS.
This is one important educational video. People have to wake up. Corporations are all about greed!
Your videos are very thoughtful and seem to be looking for truth and justice. For the future just remember that you have to fight fire with fire. Keep up the great work!!!
Carnivore is the healthiest way to eat.
Thank you so much for informing me about the bad and the good. Ranchers Direct is a great company. This is how it should be.
Trinity, thank you for this piece. We are currently two years into the same venture in Tennessee.
Another master piece sir. Thank you for bringing awareness to the beef industry and what is really going on.
I very much admire what he has built there! Wonderful! I can't praise him enough. Sadly though, he is still vulnerable to government fiat nonsense deciding his water isn't good or he's not allowed to use it, or he has to RFID all the animals and lab test them every 6 months for whatever, and so on. . I pray that never happens. Thank you so much for this interview and having him explain how our food supply is being 'corralled' for international corporate profits.
It reminds me of a TA truck stop in Springfield Missouri the owner raises cattle and sells it in his truck stop best ribeye and brisket at the best price I’ve ever had at any truck stop really appreciate it as a truck driver.
Mike Callicrate's story is absolutely inspiring. What truly honest and great man. Does he ship his products I wonder to regular folks I wonder?
found this channel a few days ago, excellent videos
Best video yet! And as a Highland Cattle breeder, I loved seeing the Highland cattle behind you.
Best damn video I’ve watched in a while! We need waaaay more of this! End the industrial complex or we lose our ways of life. I love what this guy did! Excellent video!
We have a local rancher here in Woodland, WA that has jumped off this cliff too! He raises beef and pork, did slaughter and contract butchering for a while with the now realized intention of opening a retail storefront! FDA approved, good to go! McPhee’s Butcher Block. Look them up!
I went to Colorado Springs in 2021 and spent the night and went to the Rodeo Hall of Fame. Then up to Cheyenne for the Frontier Days Rodeo. Great trip and beautiful area
Wow Trinity this a awesome video. Thanks keep up the good work.👍👍
Great content, Trinity.....thank you!
The thing about Colorado that make this work so well is one, complementary laws that allow small farmers to sell to the public. Two, this area has a very educated consumer with the disposable income to pay for the much higher quality. As long as you can meet those two requirements. Most states don't or won't allow selling to the local unless things have changed recently.
Great to see this. I hope more farmers will be able to go in this direction.
Excellent! Thank you for the education!
Awesome video. Tremendous content. Thank you!
Great show, you have shown the future of small farms, collapsing the supply chain just like the big guys on a community scale but large enough to profit. thx
This was my favorite video you have made. If I was little younger 💯 would be doing this. I'm done chasing money, time to go fishing. GOD BLESS
Great video Trinity, wake up the masses. God bless
Very informative video. So much information provided here. I would love to see these feedlots, both pig and cow, with overhead shade provided in certain areas of the pens.
Found this channel today and I am binge watching
Wow this man has it down farshure! Very nice thing here to have a mind set to be blessed to do all of this video with what this man has done
Thanks for your content, a real education and eye opener.