Carnivore Community Meeting with Mike Callicrate

Mike Callicrate is an independent cattle producer, business entrepreneur and political activist. He serves as an outspoken leader in addressing the rural, social and cultural impacts of current economic trends. A native of Evergreen, Colorado, he earned a bachelor's degree in animal science from Colorado State University in 1975 and later moved to St. Francis, Kansas, where he started farming and ranching.

In 2000, he formed a value-added meat company called Ranch Foods Direct. The fabrication plant and retail store processes and markets high quality all-natural beef in Colorado Springs and over the Internet at www.ranchfoodsdirect.com. Since the mid-1990s, Mike has been actively involved in social and political efforts to improve the welfare of family farms and to restore effective publicly-regulated markets.

Mike has been an advisor for the films Food Inc. and FRESH, and is cited in several books including The Omnivore's Dilemma and Fast Food Nation. You can find him at https://mikecallicrate.com/

This episode is hosted by Dr. Shawn Baker MD. Find him at https://shawn-baker.com Donate to the Carnivore Diet Clinical Trial: https://gofundme.com/f/carnivore-research