Contemporary Business TrendsJanuary, 2012

People, Planet and Profit?

By Mike Callicrate

…or will business continue to put profit over people and the environment, exploiting, extracting and abusing their power - for MAXIMUM PROFIT?

Will we have sustainable communities or corporate controlled globalization?

Photograph from the book, Great Ranches of the West ©2007 Jim Keen, All Rights ReservedRead a sample chapter and order the book at www.greatranchesofthewest.com – 800-363-5336

Photograph from the book, Great Ranches of the West ©2007 Jim Keen, All Rights ReservedRead a sample chapter and order the book at www.greatranchesofthewest.com – 800-363-5336

The National Security issue no one is talking about!

So this is where you grew up... What happened Grandpa?

The U.S. has lost over 40% of it’s ranchers, 90% of it’s hog farmers and 80% of it’s dairymen in the last 30 years.

*All Fresh Choice Beef – USDA-ERS Data

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Farm share of the consumer retail beef dollar

Grocery Manufactures Association

There is money in the food business…

N7100C – CargillN199HF – Hormel FoodsN97SJ – J.M. SmuckerN1897S – J.M. SmuckerN135FT – Albertson’sN46E – HuntN604CL – HersheyN654CM – Crossmark Corp.N457H – Bank of AmericaN606RP – Nestle Purina Pet Care Co.N102CX – CloroxN545CS – Wells FargoN604MU – Dean Mfg. Group

Trucks in St. Francis, KSSept. 6, 2009

Old Calnon place, So. of St. Francis

Winter day on Webster St.

Meanwhile, back on the farm…

“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.”

The Dark Side of the All American Meal

It was an interesting experiment, and for a short time provided hope to mankind, until the government was taken over by corporate interests.

“We’re in the dereg business.”Message from V.P. Bush to Monsanto executives while serving under President Reagan

WTOCorporate Controlled Globalization:

The greatest folly in human history!

Bangladesh - People waiting for democracy Photo: Munem Wasif/*Drik*NEWS. May 13th, 2008

Photo from Steve Cady - Living quarters of sweat shop workers on the outskirts of Beijing, China 2003

“Globalization” - The road to serfdom…

Inequality

Ratio of average worker's income to top CEO salaries in 1970: 1 to 38

Today: 1 to 1723

Reinventing yourself…

Former farmer or Boeing engineer?

Former Intel chip maker?

On a recent day, a grandmother dropped off a first grader at 4:30 a.m. on the way to her early morning shift at Burger King. A mother picked up her 3-year-old at 11:30 p.m. after getting off work at a nursing home. Another mother came for her 2-year-old twins at 1:30 a.m., after her shift as a cleaner at a gym.

Day Care Centers Adapt to Round-the-Clock Demand

Barry Lynn's Cornered is..."A manifesto for our time."

--Thomas Frank, Wall Street Journal

“These guys [Tyson] are nothing but old-time gangsters, thugs and thieves. They beat your brains in with their market power and take your money.” January 12, 2004, Montgomery, AL-Associated Press quoting Mike Callicrate on opening day of IBP/Tyson trial

Emptiness: A picture of big meat packer retaliation – Why cattle feeders won’t speak out against meat packer abuses…

Callicrate Cattle Co., 1999

Corporate controlled globalization will destroy food security, self reliance, and reduce all food producing countries to third world status.- Mike Callicrate 2003

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." -- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins) Ref: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)

How are we going to feed the world?

Agribusiness-Industrial Model:Diminishing global resources,inequality, hungry people, declining health

orTraditional Family Farming-Community Model: Proven ecological practices, people feeding themselves, good health, healing the earthPhotograph by Louis Daria, Your Shot

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 because it is.

U.S. looks to Monsanto to feed the world.

Or is the U.S. looking to feed Monsanto?

Changing the way we eat canchange the way food is produced

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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.

Economic development vs.

Community Development

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What we support prospers, what we feed grows!

More info at www.MikeCallicrate.com

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

Community or Globalization?

It’s your choice…People, Planet over Profit?

Go to www.MikeCallicrate.com for more information

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