1. Contemporary Business Trends
January, 2012
People, Planet and Profit?
By Mike Callicrate

2. …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?

3. 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

4. The National Security issue
no one is talking about!
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

5. 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.

6. Farm share of the consumer retail beef dollar
70.0%
1975
1950
65.0%
60.0%
55.0%
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
50.0%
45.0%
40.0%
2001
35.0%
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
*All Fresh Choice Beef – USDA-ERS Data

8. There is money in the food business…
Grocery Manufactures Association

9. 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

10. Meanwhile, back on the farm… Old Calnon place, So. of St. Francis
Winter day on Webster St.
Trucks in St. Francis, KS
Sept. 6, 2009

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.”

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

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

14. WTO
Corporate Controlled Globalization:
The greatest folly in human history!

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

19. “Globalization” - The road to serfdom…
Photo from Steve Cady - Living quarters of sweat shop workers on the outskirts of Beijing, China 2003

21. Inequality
Ratio of average worker's income to
top CEO salaries in 1970: 1 to 38
Today: 1 to 1723

23. Reinventing yourself…
Former farmer or Boeing engineer?
Former Intel chip maker?

24. Day Care Centers Adapt to Round-the-Clock Demand
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.

25. Barry Lynn's Cornered is...
"A manifesto for our time."
--Thomas Frank, Wall Street Journal

26. “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

27. Emptiness: A picture of big meat packer
retaliation – Why cattle feeders won’t speak out
against meat packer abuses…
Callicrate Cattle Co., 1999

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

29. "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)

30. How are we going 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

31. U.S. looks to Monsanto to feed the world.
Or is the U.S. looking to feed Monsanto?
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.

32. Changing the way we eat can
change the way food is produced

33. 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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34. Economic development
vs.
Community Development

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37. 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!
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38. Community or Globalization?
People, Planet over Profit?
It’s your choice…of coffee
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