Texas Slim and the EPA
Episode 875 of Bitcoin And . . . is LIVE!
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- Interview with Texas Slim
- The Rancher's Storefront
- Texas Fires: TexasFireRelief.com
- EPA Water Restrictions
- Global Food Supply Chain Shift
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And this is episode 875 of Bitcoin. And finally, I'm doing an interview again. This time, it's gonna be with Texas Slim. He is not live right now. I have prerecorded the interview, so we will get to that in a second. But first, a few words from one of our vendors in the circle p. The circle p is where I bring people like you to people like you that have goods and services for sale for Bitcoin. If you ain't selling it for Bitcoin, you ain't in the circle p today. It is sovereignty in style with the leathermint dot com. Do you need a wallet?
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Ask me how I know. But, you know, hey, if I can provide a service for you plebs out there, I'm happy to do that. Now, we've got some issues going on with food in the United States. We all we've all known it. It's it's not it's it's not something that I haven't talked about, you know, before. Right? But, I'm talking with Texas Slim today, and we talk about the ranchers, the ranchers storefront, which he opened up in, Canyon, Texas along with his friend Justin Trammell. We're gonna talk about that. But then we're gonna get into some more serious issues. The fires that happened in West Texas and the calamity that the the destruction that it caused. And we still don't we still don't know the the the breadth of just how much was lost up there. But Texas has a few words to say about that. And then we're gonna talk about some some BS coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States and a very sinister claim that they've always had on water and specifically quote unquote polluted water.
We're gonna talk about that because it feeds directly in to this global food shift that's been happening ever since Texas Slim wrote Harvest of Deception. That was his first piece. That was the piece that pretty much kicked off his entire persona. That's how everybody came to know Texas Slim. And then after that he started the beef initiative and now the beef initiative has started several other things. And in fact, hold on for a second because he he wrote me back right after we recorded this and I wanna make sure that everybody knows that you can go to Texas Fire Relief.com.
This is just before I forget it. I know I sound a little discombobulated, but I wanna make sure that everybody goes to texasfirerelief.com because he is he's got a, fund going on to try to help the ranchers that were up in north the the northeast portion of the Panhandle of Texas because we're talking about tens of thousands of cattle dead, possibly millions of acres of grassland just wiped clean from the face of the planet. I mean, there's just nothing the fires were devastating. Absolutely devastating. And when you hook that in to what the EPA is doing with water restrictions and the way that they're kinda going after cattle ranching and other, you know, animal animal things that are going on. And then you hook all that shit up into this global food shift that that Texas Slim will describe to you, well, you know, it's probably more important than ever to go and shake your rancher's hand.
Now, there's there's a couple places in this interview where I also suggest the possibility of going and finding whether or not go find out whether or not your local university now this is going to be not at the, you know, maybe at a college level but generally speaking, this is more gonna be about universities like university of tech the Texas Tech University, University of Idaho, Washington State University a lot of these Texas A&M, University of Texas, these are all like basically land grant colleges. Well, University of Texas isn't but it doesn't matter because they're they're knee deep in ranching. They've got meat departments too. So if for whatever reason you can't get a hold of a rancher, and you can do that through the beef initiative, but if if you want a different way to look at getting your meat somewhere other than the supermarket, because if you're buying from the supermarket, you're probably not buying domestic beef that was produced here in the United States. You're probably buying beef that was produced in Brazil or, God forbid, Australia.
And me and Texas Slim get into all that. But just be aware that these universities have their own they they have to especially the land grant stuff, they're all about agriculture. Right? So you gotta teach people not only how to raise cattle and hog and chickens and all that kind of stuff and how to farm that, but you've gotta be able to teach a whole other group of people how to cut that. How How do you slaughter the animal? How do you do it humanely? How do you get the skin off? How do you gut it? What do you do with all that? How do you cut the meat that's left over? How do you package it? How do you sell it? How do you market this? You know universities have that. Okay. So if you for whatever reason go to your rancher first, please for the love of God, but if you can't find a rancher don't automatically default and go to the back to the supermarket.
Dude, find your local agricultural university and go see if they've got a meat department. Most likely if they're a land grant college or an ag based college they do and their meat is generally speaking raised the right way. Right? It's good meat, right? If they're they're teaching people how to ranch and then they you know those people go off and they start little ranches and then they they they do the thing this it's all part of getting away from the supermarket meat aisle. You want to do that. You want you want to be able to eat the meat that was raised in your own country for various reasons that I won't get into. But enough said, let's get into this one with Texas Slim.
[00:08:52] Texas Slim:
We're doing good, David. I'm sitting here on the county square in which you and I met. I don't know how many years ago. It's over 3 years ago. But I'm sitting in my pickup truck and where it all began, really.
[00:09:04] David Bennett:
Are you out in front of that, new place that you and, Justin put up?
[00:09:08] Texas Slim:
Yes. I am. It's right over my shoulder right here. Can you see it? Yes. I can.
[00:09:13] David Bennett:
Yes. I can. It's like it it's weird seeing, like, just like like these little splotches in your, like, through your car windows and recognizing every single brick. And I didn't live in Canyon that long, but I gotta tell you, Texas, I, god, I really I miss being in the state, because I grew up there. I was born there. I lived most of my life there, But I only lived in Canyon for a couple of years, and I really miss it. I I really do.
[00:09:42] Texas Slim:
Yeah. You know, that's something I've always missed ever I was a kid because this is you know, I was born and raised. 100 yards right there is where I was actually born, and I was raised here. And I had to leave because this town died. But, you know, throwing up your time here, it was on a regrowth. You know? Yeah. And it's a revitalization. So there's a lot thing you know, it's happening here. And what's gonna be interesting to see where this develops into as far as a community, you know, and through my relationship with Justin, my relationship with you, of course, and everybody that's come through the you know, we call it the gates of the beef initiative.
It's about revitalizing these small towns that we've lost. And we're in a good position, and I feel pretty pretty good about everything where we are. I mean, the rancher storefront, man, it's picking up steam. The people are divorcing the supermarket. That's what I tell every one of them when they come in.
[00:10:39] David Bennett:
That okay. Well, let's let's actually start right there with the Rancher's Reserve. Tell everybody about you're in Canyon, Texas. Like I said, where where you were born, you grew up, and you've come back to what is Rancher's Reserve because I don't think enough people know about it. I the only reason that, you got ahold of me, and then, of course, I was reading y'all's newsletter from the beef initiative, and that's the way that I found out about it. But for those people who have not heard about what you are doing, what is it?
[00:11:12] Texas Slim:
Well, let me correct real quick, and and I know why you'd and I've done it myself. It's Rancher Storefront. Here is what it's called here in Canyon. But what that is, let's let yeah. Let's paint that picture. You know, I started the beef initiative in many different ways, but one of the very first formal handshakes that I had was with Justin Trammell and, and his father, Donnie, the Trammell family. They have Trammell cattle. They have tier bloom. And what they have now and they didn't have it at the time when we started the beef initiative, they didn't have a processing center. So as we were building out the beef initiative, they in we were in unison basically capturing every move that they were making as far as opening up a microprocessing center back here in Canyon, Texas that's called Panhandle Meats.
Okay. Through basically the facilitation and the creation of Panhandle Meats, they've created several storefronts. 1 outside of the processing center, so that's revenue that they didn't have before. Okay? Processing is now revenue that they didn't have before. And now on the county square of Canyon, Texas, we have a retail storefront, and it's a revenue generator because of that microprocessing center, because they are cattle people in the state of Texas. So now we have a processing center that is the full vertical integration of the food supply. That's what everybody me and you sat over there at Palace Coffee and saying this is what everybody thinks is not possible. Well, guess what? We're living proof.
It started with the processing center. Donnie's father, you know, Justin, he grew up in agriculture. Donnie, you know, they ran the Emerald Livestock Auction House for years, you know, Harry's grandfather. This is what they took away from everybody's understanding that is possible in the United States. And this was my mission saying bullshit. This is how you basically get back your food supply. It's through the processing center and we've proven it and we're proving it all over the nation now. This is just a new industry model. Microprocessing center, you got your herd of cattle, you bring other herds in, you bring other ranchers in, they get their products processed, basically harvested at the processing center. You turn it back to them. They get to basically take it to the market how they best see fit.
Maybe it's half cows, maybe it's quarter cows, maybe it's just the cuts of the cow, but now they're still full in control of what they're doing with their cattle instead of handing it over at the auction house that has basically been hijacked by the multinational processing centers. So now we have a retail storefront in Canyon, Texas that sell local produce, local, basically beef, everything that they do as far as trammel cattle, but everything that Justin also does is tier bloom. He does hog. He does poultry. He does lamb. So we're hitting every animal protein you can now get at the Rancher storefront in unison and collaboration with the beef initiative. We went in partnership on the Rancher storefront.
I get to sell cuts of cow, basically, that he doesn't sell, and I don't compete with him. We support each other. Right. So how how long has the store been open? Just We opened it up 3 days before Christmas this year. Okay. This past year. Yeah.
[00:14:38] David Bennett:
And you're you're saying you've seen significant growth. Who are who are the customers that are coming in? Because, you know, Canyon They're all local. They're local. They're okay. So so even though that Canyon itself isn't it like, when I left, Canyon, was on a rebound, but it wasn't shall I say, it didn't seem like it had the population that I would have thought would have the kind of cash to go from the supermarket to a smaller operation. So does that mean that the prices that you guys are your price points are in, in, competitive nature with what's going on in supermarket?
[00:15:22] Texas Slim:
Well and I think that, you know, it's a good question for sure. Well, I think it really, it's my job now is, you know, what is the perception of everybody out there? You and I have talked about this before. It's like, oh, it's too expensive. Right? It's like, okay. Well, you know, let's just start with, let's start with perspectives and perceptions, and perceptions and perspectives need to change in the United States. Okay. Let's look at, what is grocery store retail beef right now? What do you think it is? As in price or Brown yeah. Brown beef. Brown beef. I'm sorry. For just ground beef, what is it? Gotcha. A pound? Yeah. Just about. Just about. Same thing same thing to retail storefront, man. You know exactly where your beef is coming from. Bullshit. It's not it's not an excuse anymore. Yeah. So you asked say that. That is the point that I've been trying to tell other people is that if you actually were to take the time
[00:16:17] David Bennett:
and people won't do that, it's almost as if they're just they refuse to actually spend 5 minutes to go into another place and and look at prices. And I I mean, I've got to the point now where I take pictures of prices on my phone Right. Just so just so that I can see what the hell's going on in other places. And it's it's amazing that I can go to a university meat shop, you know, like up here at WSU, you know, the the college is closest to me and Idaho University, which is just across the border. They both have meat shops, and they're both really good beef. They both raise them the way that they're supposed to be raised, and they butcher them there because they're they all have classes on how to do this.
[00:17:03] Texas Slim:
Right. Well and you bring your process are competitive. Yeah. And WT does the same thing. Right? I mean Right. They had the same type of system. And, really, it is. It's a knee jerk response to most people. And after a while, I don't validate it anymore. It's like, I'm being wrong. You're just Right. You're just knee jerking into that response. You're not really thinking about what you're saying. And, you know, you look back in my childhood, you used to go and you bought your animal protein, your staples. Right? You got your commodities from one place. You really did. You got your butter, your milk, your eggs, your beef, your bacon, your poultry, your whatever it was. You got that at a different place right here in Canyon, Texas.
So it really is, behavioral, you know, issues. It's it's, you know, excuses. It's rationalization, justification. But if you really take the time, like you said, and kinda just investigate it a little bit, you take pride in divorcing the supermarket. Because the supermarket is not a good comparison. It's not good comparison for our producers that raise that beef from the very beginning, and then they had to surrender it over to the, you know, the auction houses, which are the packers. And so this is where we basically bring that new clarity and education saying, hey. You know, we're the other bid producers. Take it to this micro processing center. We'll sell you beef right here or just sell it to us, and then we'll retail your beef. You're gonna make the same amount of money that you were. You're gonna make more actually now. Right. People are starting to figure that out. And Yeah. You know, of course, I mean, you cannot compare something like what we've done with Right Your Storefront and in the beef initiative, every producer, you know, hundreds of hundreds of producers are in the beef initiative now.
Okay. You can't compare their work to what you're finding in the retail supermarket. It's not a good comparison because that's a commodity and it's subsidized. So how do you compare against a subsidized product? You don't. It's not fair. It's it's cheapened. It's devalued. It's it's not real. It's a it's a fabricated price anyways, and JBS taught us that. Tyson teaches us every day. They can manipulate retail storefront prices any day of the week, and they don't have to tell you why. And so here, you're only always gonna get consistency. You're gonna know if the price hike goes up. Or if it goes down, you're gonna know why, and you're gonna know exactly where that cow came from. It's real simple. So simple, it's complicated. You've heard me say that a 100 times. Yeah. But let's get back to the basics here. What we've done is engineered us back into the basics. It's a inversion
[00:19:42] David Bennett:
of what they took away from us. Yeah. And a lot of people don't remember that, like, in Midland, Texas when I was a kid, my mom the grocery go and go get groceries was 4 stops. It was the grocery store, which did not have produce and did not have a meat market, So you had to go to a produce store. We went to Imperial Produce in Midland. That's that's where we got all the produce. Then you had to go to Hank's Meat Market where we got our meat. And I tried to describe that that situation to my kids, and they just they're clueless. They just they don't have any concept of how that actually worked. But my recommendation for anybody that's listening is that if you have spend the time to go find your guy. Is if if you don't wanna go all the way out to a ranch, then is there a meat market?
Is there somewhere that's not in your supermarket? And go find out. And if you if you can't if you can't do that or or go to a rancher, then do you have a university that is an agricultural based university? If so, do a Google search for the name of that university and meat department or meat grading or something like that because chances are really good. What you'll find out is they they actually have a meat market that they sell to the public.
[00:21:01] Texas Slim:
So Right. Please Well, right now spend the time. Right right now, go to maps.beefinitiative.com. Go find your producer right now. Exactly. And if and if you don't have a if we don't have that producer that's close to you and you know of 1, let's get their butts in there. You know? This is a open source, crowdsource index. You know? That's how it was basically created. It was one person at a time, one handshake, one rancher in this, searchable global searchable index. We just went global with our mapping system too. That's got producers we've got producers in Finland, South America, Europe. You can't this is gonna this is gonna expand.
And everybody goes, how are you gonna scale this? Well, I don't like to use that word, but I'll scale across the globe just like, you know, everybody else does, especially with the mapping system now that can tie you into all these independent ranchers and producers across the planet. That's that's pretty impressive. So here we are. Okay. So
[00:22:00] David Bennett:
we're really lucky that your store didn't burn down because you were up there in West Texas, and West Texas just suffered some of the most lethal large scale fires in the history of the Panhandle.
[00:22:14] Texas Slim:
And when I looked at the map Texas. In the history of Texas.
[00:22:17] David Bennett:
It it when I looked at the map, the fire map, because I was before I got to the map, I was going, you know, where is this fire? Thankfully, it was north and east of you guys, but still that that doesn't alleviate the absolute devastation that arrived. So from you were there, can you tell everybody what you saw?
[00:22:40] Texas Slim:
Yeah. And this is you know, it's it's funny because I was in Tulia, Texas that day, and we were at a food growing summit that was hosted by the Oglala Commons. And you knew about them whenever you were here. And so me and Justin were down there, and it was it's been windy. You know, it's springtime or, you know, late winter. You know, it gets very windy here. And, and so it was extremely windy. And as we were driving from Toya all the way back up to Canyon, heading north, you could you could just see the sky, and there's like, okay. Yeah. There's a wildfire. We get them all the time. Right? Right. We have fires. We're in the desert high plains and the wind blows. We don't get enough rain. There's a lot of reasons all this has kinda transpired, but it was big, and it was moving, and it was moving fast. And so that was Tuesday night when it happened.
And all of a sudden, the sky was basically just smoke, and it was moving towards Amarillo. It started right on the perimeter close to Canadian River for your reference. Yeah. But it got even closer to that. It was right there on the northeast side of Amarillo. You know, it was out there at Pantex. They were, they were evacuating Pantex. So it got right on the loop, and then it but the wind shifted, and the wind shifted to the north. And so that's whenever it started traveling to the north to the northeast. That's why I went into all the way from the Texas Panhandle all the way into Oklahoma.
That just gives you perspective of how big it was. And so nobody really knew, and nobody still knows to this day how big it is. Mhmm. The type of devastation. That's 1,200,000 acres. Yeah. And then all that was was grasslands, and all that was was ranchers. All that was was rural America. All that was was cattle. And it's it's it's really it's gonna take a long time to really see what the impact is, but I know the immediate impact is not good for the cattle industry, for the local economy. You know, we've got all the the law firms swooping in now, you know, insurance claims. Now it's lawsuit. Let's blame who who who's who's gonna take all the blame? What class action lawsuits are we gonna bring forth? And so here we go. But you know what? We got ranches that are never gonna come back. We got cut herds that'll never be grown or raised again.
And so that's why, you know, through the through the foundation, I am Texas Slim Foundation, the the nonprofit, the 501, whatever they're called, 503 BC, we've got a, Texas fire relief fund going. And this is gonna be a re, regrowing our soil, regrowing our lands, regrowing our herds. But first, we gotta heal some things right now. And, I'm in a lot of talks. We've already raised, you know, a good amount of money. I hope to raise probably this calendar year. I hope to raise, you know, I don't know. I'm not gonna put a limit on it. But I me personally, I'm shooting for a $100,000 as far as because we've got inputs. We've got seed. We got feed. We got fertilizer, and we've got a bunch of orphan calves right now. And all these ranchers that didn't lose all their herds, it's calving season. They're starting to drop calves. We got prematures that are happening right now. We've got orphan calves that don't have any, you know, formulas.
We've got all kinds of issues, and the world's already forgot about this damn fire. And Yeah. And everything, really, the impact of this, nobody even really knows yet. But once again, now that all the attorneys are here, everybody's just it's a money grab now. So we're gonna come up underneath, and we're going to basically regrow and reheal everything that's been devastated. We've got cows that are still being put down because of of the smoke. You know, we've got injured. All the vets in the in the Texas Panhandle, man, they're overwhelmed.
[00:26:31] David Bennett:
This is this is just now started, but everything you know? Like I said, everybody's already forgot about it. Okay. So let's not forget about at least one of the numbers that we know about is last I heard, we were looking at 40,000 head of cattle dead. And now that's probably gone up to 50?
[00:26:51] Texas Slim:
We don't know. The mortality mortalities. I talked to somebody, rancher yesterday. They, their herd, it was about 400. They they put down a 120 mortalities yesterday. So that just gets the perspective. So who knows?
[00:27:07] David Bennett:
40, 50, 100. You know? We don't know yet. So what we don't know the the direct mortality rate, we're not sure of the ache the amount of acreage burned. And that would mean that we're not sure exactly how many different operations that were private or, smaller ranching operations. We don't know the number of that as to how many people were affected. How do you how do you compile mortalities
[00:27:32] Texas Slim:
through a massive wild fire I don't in the middle of cattle country in the state of Texas? Who gets to have those numbers? Who gets to generate those numbers? If you go through some a system like the multinational system, the cattle industry, like, if you have to go through and count mortalities like they do, shit, they hide mortalities all the time in Hartford, Texas. Insured. This is gonna be a numbers game that really takes a long time to get some true clarification on.
[00:28:10] David Bennett:
Yeah. Now Justin, Trammell down there, he was unaffected himself or was Right.
[00:28:21] Texas Slim:
No. He he was totally unaffected. Donnie has his cattle here in closer to Canyon, but he's he's got a herd out there in San Juan, New Mexico right across the border as well. So, you know, like, that's how a lot of cattle ranchers are. They, you know, they change, you know, different pastures, you know, regen you know, different regenerative methods, you know, as far as, you know, keeping them on rotational grazing, stuff like that. So but, no, they weren't affected.
[00:28:48] David Bennett:
Okay. Okay. Alright. So do you have I mean, let I gotta put on a tinfoil hat here because I maybe you know something about it and maybe you don't. What's the deal with the blue roofs thing? Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?
[00:29:05] Texas Slim:
Oh, is that the DEW crap?
[00:29:09] David Bennett:
The directed energy weapon? Is that yeah. I've I've I've heard, like, more than 3 people talk about that none of the houses out there that were wiped out, that the ones that that didn't get wiped out had blue roofs, and I don't know. Do do you have any boots on the ground about that, or is it all just bullshit?
[00:29:30] Texas Slim:
Oh, this was a fast moving grass fire that was fueled by a lot of dry, basically, forage. And, they, you know, they they jump. These fires jump. Oh, yeah. Nobody's nobody's ever seen a grass fire. There was one, rancher, basically, producer. They had what they could. They loaded up in their stock trailers what they could, their horses, number 1, and they got trapped. And so they had to go back to their house. They had to go back to their barn because they were engulfed, and there's no way out. They couldn't drive out. It was pitch black, smoke, fire, everything. They got everything unloaded off their trailers, got in between their house and a shed, and that fire was getting close to them. That fire jumped their house.
Okay? It jumped over and totally missed the house. So the blue roofs, you guys, stop it. Let's let's talk about the truth. Right? Alright.
[00:30:27] David Bennett:
That's what that's what I wanted to hear because I was just I was just sweat or, thinking that this was all just BS. And, you know, and and when you say fires jump, I know that about that firsthand because they like, if if you even in forest, in mountainous areas, these fires will jump, like, 100 of yards and not burn you know, they won't burn by the creek, but they will jump over a creek. And then 200 yards out, they'll pick back up, and it ends up being just a a terrible thing. But now I wanna I wanna transition away from the fires because we beat that one to death. So EPA.
And Yes. This is where we start getting into some of the more horrific issues that we're they're facing, and the fire is bad enough. But now you've brought to light some issues going on with the EPA and, what is it, water?
[00:31:24] Texas Slim:
Yeah. I mean, Environmental Protection Agency is a, is a fascinating, whatever they are. But but, anyways, yeah, they've they've got some legislation. And, you know, the EPA has been used many, many times over as an attack vector against everything that we do in the cattle industry, and here we go. The the the basically, moving forward in the next 10 years is gonna be fascinating because, you know, the the climate change, you know, the planet's burning up. So they're gonna use all kinds of different idealistic bullshit reasons to come out and try to regulatory capture a lot of industries. And so what they're proposing, it would be a a a big impact on microprocessing centers in the United States, and that's what we're bringing to light. What are they proposing? Which we all want clean water, but there's a lot of things that they're what they're proposing as far as this bill that we're already taken care of, and we've got the proof. So this is I think they're trying to slow step into more regulation, more regulatory capture.
They can use it as a weapon instead of, basically, you know, something that's truly good for local municipalities and local community food sheds, local community microprocessing centers. This is a way that they can eliminate a lot of them because I've already looked at numbers and how many that they propose would shut down. It's a lot more than that. I think they said 16 in that article I sent you that we wrote up, but I'd say a couple of 100 at least would be affected by this, and they would be basically regulated out of business. So
[00:33:03] David Bennett:
Yeah. See and this is here I'm I'm I'm reading this that you that you sent me. It's it's not y'all's press release. It was this thing from Brianna Sagdol?
[00:33:19] Texas Slim:
Brianna Sagdol. She is our research, she's she's she's our, basically, press media and, research confidant. So she's got a lot of experience in stuff like this. She worked in close with Justin as far as legislation, everything that we're doing, you know, facilitating food, farmer, ranch, Freedom Alliance, all that.
[00:33:42] David Bennett:
Okay. So this is hold on. I just wanna make sure that I've I've got this. Yeah. Okay. The the the, state of Washington is mentioned in this and some of the ranchers that I was talking to last year. The way that they're being pushed around, off of like, they can't be anywhere close to a they can't be any they cannot have their cattle, like, 200 yards off of the edge of any stream, any river, any any, like, a crook, and and they kept getting pushed back. And this one this one, family that I was talking to was saying that the Army Corps of Engineers, because the Snake River is real close to where they are, and when you get major waterways that are used for transit of goods and services, the army corps of engineers is automatically involved.
And they came they came up on their land and told them that they were gonna have to, build a fence 200 yards off of off of something. And they go, well, you know, the families looks at him and says, well, how are you gonna pay for that? Yeah. They said, no. You're you're gonna pay for it.
[00:35:01] Texas Slim:
Exactly.
[00:35:01] David Bennett:
And their answer was like, you know what? We're done. No. We're not paying for it. If you want a fence there, then you build the fence there. We'll keep the cattle 200 yards off of the river edge, but we're not building the fence because we can't afford it, and we're just not gonna do it. So whatever it is they got to the point where they were literally looking at the car car the Army Corps of Engineers and saying to the United States government, no. Not because we don't want to, because we can't. We don't have the money. We don't have the time. We don't have the manpower. Because you're I mean, building a fence, people think, oh, well, it's not that big of a deal. Yeah. Around your house.
Try try doing a couple of miles of it. You know, try doing 15.
[00:35:47] Texas Slim:
Well, let's go back to this what this is proposed, and it's a it's a water filtration system that will cost quarter of a $1,000,000. And if you're a microprocessing center, you can't afford that. So once again, boom. Regulatory capture. Everybody say it out loud. Regulatory capture. Say it with the little West Texas slang. Regulatory capture.
[00:36:08] David Bennett:
Well Here we go, guys. This is what this is. And and that's and this ends up being sort of a modus operandi for for the United States government is Of course. We can't we can't, like they'll say this. It's like we can't get them directly because they own heads of cattle. We can't get them directly because they're grazing the cattle. But then they can say, well, what is it that we control almost top to bottom of, and then you come to water? Yeah. And the minute that they say water, it becomes a major issue because at this point, water affects everything.
If if your runoff goes to your neighbor's land or runs to your neighbor's land, and then your Yeah. And then after it comes off of your neighbor's land Up downstream. Yeah. It's like the second that it hits a navigable waterway, boom, army corps of engineers and all the rest of the EPA regulations are automatically now turned on. And all they had to do was say, you know what? With the rain and the runoff and all those cows, there's gotta be at least some fecal coliform that's coming down to this navigable waterway. Let's turn on we can turn on our engine.
Before that, they weren't able to turn on the engine. And it looks like they've they've they've at least hit upon this magical like, they're waving a magic wand saying, fecal coliform, and it's runoff, and that's our business. So now we can regulate everybody upstream even if they're nowhere close to a river. That's everybody.
[00:37:45] Texas Slim:
Well and it it it affects reservations. It affects every yeah. It's it's a it's a form of weaponization that can be, you know, bogged down in bureaucracy, you know, lawsuits and everything. It doesn't it's not you know, people people don't understand why, you know, producers and ranchers and landowners go away in the United States in the modern day. It's usually because they can't afford to own the land anymore because they're getting regulated out of it. You know, you look at what you just said. Let's look at Jason Rick of Rick Ranches there in Crawford, Colorado. You know? He's a pioneer. He's one of the, basically first people into the beef initiative. Every bit of his water is based on the Army Corps of Engineers and, basically the irrigation system right there in the Norfolk Valley of Colorado.
Mhmm. You talk about having to follow a lot of damn water rules and being on top of his game at all times because that's how he he that water goes through everything that he stewards, all of his land, everything that he does. And if he if he does anything wrong towards all these regulations and they can like you said, they can come back to him and say, hey. We got you. You're doing it wrong. You're gonna have to do this. So he's fighting that every day of his life.
[00:39:03] David Bennett:
Okay. So we've got about 9 minutes left on this call. And Okay. This is this is leading us into an even more sinister issue that you were talking about. A generalized global food supply chain shift. Yeah. Can you can you outline that for us in the last part of this, interview?
[00:39:25] Texas Slim:
Sure. And I'm gonna read you really fast on this, and I'm gonna tell everybody to read the Harvest of Deception. Do a do a Google search, Harvest of Deception, Texas Slim, and read the one that's hosted on the beef initiative platform. Okay. Several years ago, back in 2016, 17, there was basically mass consolidation in the chemical and grain, global corporations. Same thing with our food industries. Well, in 2017, they got the marching order to basically create a one world food group, and they are doing it. It's happening in real time. What's not happening in real time is the general public's understanding what's going on. We're going through a global industrial food shift.
Look what happened during COVID. That is basically just a test run. That was nothing more than basically, hey. Let's see how we can make this better as far as eliminating market access to a lot of nutritionist food in the Western Hemisphere for most of us here. They built out global ranches. We've got countries that can't feed their people. We got multinational corporations that are stealing natural resources from the United States of America and anywhere they can, and they're selling it to the highest bidder on the global industrial industry, basically, apparatus.
Okay? This is happening. Supply chain lines are changing. You got bricks now. Everything is shifting. This is a new food system that they're implementing. And they're taking animal protein everything is being, basically marketed to the general public right now. This ain't happening in the other hemisphere. This is only happening in the western hemisphere, but the most Americans don't understand that they are being robbed of their nutrition. That's the biggest thing. You're being robbed of your nutrition and and it's being sold on the global market in a different way than it ever has before.
Okay? They've devalued our food systems. And so now, as I said, 3 4 years ago, they're gonna turn beef into caviar. That's exactly your perspective you need to have. They're going to this year, in the United States of America, you watch what happens. It'll be known as the summer of pork. Okay? And so this is part of that shift. They're basically reengineering processing centers. They're introducing bug plant processing centers. That's what Tyson just did 2 weeks ago. We're gonna start, processing bugs in the United States. Okay.
We are now in the United States of America, one of the lowest inventories that we've ever had with cattle. Okay? Well, also, we now are importing more beef into the United States than we are consuming. We're now eating more imported beef than we are eating our own domestic beef. That's never happened before. That's part of this global industrial food shift. Most people don't understand because they go to the grocery store and it looks the same. Where's the country of origin labeling? Ain't ever gonna be on your packaging, and they're gonna say they have this new voluntary label that they just did, you know, product of the USA. That's 2 years that they will even try to enforce, and that's 2 years of voluntary representation. That's nothing more than a distraction.
So what we're gonna see is basically a big food shift, and it's gonna be gradual. It's been gradual, but they've been working on this for now 6 years, and their goal is 2030. They've gotta get all the carbon credits. They gotta do everything. This is a global industrial food shift, and who's gonna pay the prices? Our independent ranchers, producers, and the consumers that don't understand what true food intelligence is, and they get most of their data from labels. Labels are a joke. And if you're still relying on labels to basically teach you or to inform you of what the nutrition is, then you're cheating your child out of true nutrition these days.
[00:43:37] David Bennett:
Okay. So I I wanna connect that up with this could've kinda wanted to put them together is that if was I mean and and I can be viewed as having another tinfoil hat on my head or not. I actually don't I actually don't care at this point because at the same time, what you're saying is occurring, where we're importing more international beef and consuming it than we are our own domestic beef. At the same time, that it's clear that the pressure internally from the United States government on our domestic ranchers because of the water issue is going to make them produce even less beef. And we just had a we actually just had this major fire that wiped out god only knows how much of the Texas herds.
So that's that that shift is going to become more to more international beef coming in, less domestic beef even go being able to go out, and that that is going out is the caviar that you're talking about, then at one point or another, the only thing left to do to the American people in the Western Hemisphere, or at least the United States, is to shut down the importation of beef because that's when they'll say, but look how much fuel you have to burn to get this beef from Brazil, Australia. We just we can't do that anymore. So you're just gonna have to live with the fact that you don't get beef. So my my ending thing here, as we're coming to the close of this, is that it's more important than ever to form that relationship with your rancher that should be local, if at all possible, a agricultural college meat department, because they are viable at least still a little bit. Texas Tech has a great one. They're I mean, it's it's one of the best Yeah. They do. They they really do. But the rancher the the private ranchers, any anything that you can do that supports the domestic beef is the only option going forward for high quality animal protein and fat nutrition.
At least Percent.
[00:45:54] Texas Slim:
And and and if 50% of that is correct, David, then we win. That's it. And and then the individual that makes the decision to basically divorce the supermarket, okay, the only way this changes is by consumer demand. And those leaders that are out there in the front saying, hey. We're not gonna pull put up with the bullshit deceptions anymore. This is what we're going to do. So in closing, let's look at pork. Okay? Who controls who owns Tyson? Okay. That's Smithville. Okay. Who who owns Smithville? That's the CCP of China. It's definitive.
Okay? Most of the pork in the United States is shipped in from where? Okay. Our imports are at all time high. Tyson shutting down domestic processing of pork, but we're basically our import of porks are growing exponentially. Where's that pork coming from? Everybody's concerned about mRNA vaccines in beef. Well, they've been doing that in pork already. So people need to understand they have to create their own basically decentralized food systems. And you do it if if you want to or not. That's that's new. I'm letting you know that this is a lifestyle change. It's a behavior change, and it basically helps you build community. It's over my shoulder right here. Look what we've done. And people are. People are flocking into that Rancher storefront because they're tired of the bullshit.
[00:47:18] David Bennett:
Alright. That's it. Alright, Texas Slim. Thank you for, taking time out of your day. Appreciate it. Me and you will talk later, but I think this thing is about to end here in about 10 seconds. So I'm just gonna shut it down, and I'll talk to you later, man.
[00:47:33] Texas Slim:
We'll talk to you soon.
[00:47:34] David Bennett:
Now I would have liked to have gone a lot longer with Texas Slim, but, you know, I had to actually the the the software that I was gonna use wasn't gonna work for Texas Slim, so therefore, we had to use, god forbid, Zoom, which only gives you 40 minutes if you don't have, if you don't have a, like, one of their accounts, you can only do 40 minutes at a time. But, honestly, you know, I I actually kind of appreciated that because it gives me it's sort of like one of those. It's sort of like a permaculture thing where if you have nothing but a blank sheet of paper and doing a design on that blank sheet of paper with no restrictions, you know, in this case, no time limit, you know, would be like a one of the non restrictions, It becomes kind of harder to actually do the design. So in a real way, I kind of appreciate the 40 minute time limit because it makes sure that you don't dilly dally around.
And we got into it. Those are the 4 points that we really wanted to hit was his opening up of Rancher storefront with Justin Trammell, the Texas fires, the EPA and the global food shift. Because these are the things that you really need to know about. This this this global food shifting, it's not abating. It's getting worse. See, that's what that's what we're trying to tell you. If you're trying to figure out, for whatever reason, if we didn't hit it on the head right in that interview for you, this is starting to accelerate. And I'm I'm gonna say it again if you didn't pick it up in the interview, The EPA now that they're looking at water runoff from cattle ranching operations, there's no way you can get away from that.
I mean, other than just tell the United States government to go stick it and hope they don't send you to, you know, send a drone strike over you because, you know, God only knows what they'll do. There are crazy people that are starting to be in charge. They're just some of these people are absolutely insane. It doesn't mean all of them are insane, but some of them are insane. Right? God only knows what they'll do. If if a rancher just says, you know what? No. Just know. I mean who knows what what'll happen but what one of the things that is the most insidious part about water navigable waterways and clean water systems in the United States is that the United States basically owns them.
Now I'm not sure about Texas per se because Texas came into the union with owning all of its water rights all of its land rights all of its airspace rights and all of its mineral rights So in a very real way, Texas may escape the the biggest brunt of what could be brought to bear. You can't ranch anymore because we found, I don't know, 100 colony forming units of of fecal coliform in your water stream per milliliter, which is honestly not a whole lot. But if you have your ranching shit closed down because there's just no way that you can keep a 100 colony forming units of fecal coliform out of the water column coming off of your land. It doesn't matter what good, you know, how good of a steward of that land that you are. They can just shut you down, which means no meat production.
And if they continuously do that and that in it, Texas, like I said, may escape. But Texas is the only state of the union that I know of that came in to the union with all of its rights intact. That was at least the deal that we made when we were kind of told that we were going to end up becoming part of the union. But Oklahoma doesn't have that, New Mexico doesn't have that, Colorado doesn't have that, Washington State doesn't have that, You name it. I can go on and on and on and on and on. They don't have that. Most of the land is BLM or Bureau of Land Management Land in the United States except for Texas. They have very few acreage in Texas.
And I'll guarantee they want that to change too. But water runs everywhere. See, that's the thing. That's what's so insidious about this EPA thing going on is that water runs downhill and it runs over distance and that water connects up with other water. So at this point, there's going to be water that actually ends up getting into places that the Army Corps of Engineer Engineers the EPA the Navigable Waters Act or whatever the hell that was called to the to the issue that means that they can control anything upstream. So if your wall if your column of water coming off your land has an issue and they can tell you that it's going to impact an issue that they have control over somehow or another, they're going to be able to extend that control all the way up the water column to wherever that issue they say is happening.
And if they can just shut you down, we've got other food problems coming down the pipe. Now, he mentioned pork. Pork, you know, beef will be caviar and then will be relegated to pork. Pork is even worse in production as far as fecal coliform and all kinds of bad stuff coming out of the effluent stream and water. So you can expect that to be shut down. And then chicken manure, oh my God. At one point or another, you're probably gonna find out that the government is gonna go absolutely through the roof when it when when they start telling us how much nitrogen is in the manure of a bunch of chickens.
Because there's a lot of nitrogen. There's also a lot of phosphorus in it but we won't that that's another issue. It's the nitrogen that they'll say. They'll go, oh, but nitrogen is gonna cause algal blooms in all of the watersheds. And therefore, it's gonna kill all the fish because the algae will eat will, you know, respire all the oxygen and the fish won't have anything left and it's just gonna be a big mess. It will be like one chain reaction that goes from cattle to pork to chickens to turkeys to you name it. And unless we're really, really careful and really, really on the ball and this is where shaking your rancher hand really comes into play, if we can't keep those ranchers in the money.
And I'm not talking 1,000,000 of dollars they don't I you know I'm not saying that we need to make them rich, But it would be nice if they could just have the living and the more that they have a living the more they're going to fight for that living If we don't shake our ranchers hand, if we don't buy their products, if we don't appreciate the work that they put in They're not going to do the work and they're gonna end up selling their land to Cargill or J and B or JBS or, you know, Smithville and Smithfield and Tyson and whoever, all the people that we mentioned in this interview. It's up to us, man.
It's up to us individually. And if we can't get it done, I I don't really know what the hell is gonna happen. You know, what at what point does the state, you know, the do state and, you know, or public universities, at what point do they have their ranching shut down? At what point does the United States government say, you know what? You you get a lot of grants from the NIH. You get a lot of grants from the National Science Foundation. You and NIH's National Institutes of Health. Those are the 2 main funding organisms of the United States government for research at the university level. And don't discount the Department of Energy, which also does a lot of granting, but more what's even weirder is the Department of Defense and they do a lot of granting to biology and ask me how I know later. Do it on Noster or send me a boostogram or something like that. But one of my favorite t one of my favorite professors at Texas Tech University, all of his grants were DOD, and he was studying slime mold.
You do with that whatever the hell it is you wanna do with that. But DOD, DOE, NIH, NSF, these are all you this is all United States government money. And all these same universities had to convert their their university campuses to nonsmoking campuses or they were gonna lose all that grant money. And all it took them to do was been, you know, a a $100,000 putting up and buying a whole bunch signs that said you can't smoke here and put it up around these campuses. People still smoke, but you're not supposed to. But at least they had to do that. Otherwise, they were gonna lose their grants. None of their professors were gonna be able to keep their labs open. Now check this shit out. What happens if they say, you know what, you can't be involved in animal stuff anymore on your for your campus. Your meat lab, no. That that's gotta go away. You can't teach anybody you can kiss them goodbye.
And all the people that you employ in your laboratories gotta go away because you don't need them because you won't get grants, so you're not gonna be doing any experiments, which means you don't need any butts in seats. See how this works? It the money flow for universities is the same as what I'm talking about when I'm talking about the column of water and all they have to do is trace it upstream, and they that reaches every single point. Every single point of land in the United States produces water whether by rainfall, snow melt, or springs.
And that water moves across every square inch of this country. Do you see? Do you see how insidious this is? That EPA business that's in this that's in the interview That's the most important part of all this That is absolutely the most important part of all this. So, be aware Go find your rancher. Go to beefinitiative.com Go to what was it Texas fires? Hold on. Let me get that get that open again because my phone decided to close. Texasfirerelief.com if you want to help out there. But if you want to do the most good, go find your rancher, go shake their hands, but more importantly, buy their products, and I will see you on the other side.
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We're gonna talk about that because it feeds directly in to this global food shift that's been happening ever since Texas Slim wrote Harvest of Deception. That was his first piece. That was the piece that pretty much kicked off his entire persona. That's how everybody came to know Texas Slim. And then after that he started the beef initiative and now the beef initiative has started several other things. And in fact, hold on for a second because he he wrote me back right after we recorded this and I wanna make sure that everybody knows that you can go to Texas Fire Relief.com.
This is just before I forget it. I know I sound a little discombobulated, but I wanna make sure that everybody goes to texasfirerelief.com because he is he's got a, fund going on to try to help the ranchers that were up in north the the northeast portion of the Panhandle of Texas because we're talking about tens of thousands of cattle dead, possibly millions of acres of grassland just wiped clean from the face of the planet. I mean, there's just nothing the fires were devastating. Absolutely devastating. And when you hook that in to what the EPA is doing with water restrictions and the way that they're kinda going after cattle ranching and other, you know, animal animal things that are going on. And then you hook all that shit up into this global food shift that that Texas Slim will describe to you, well, you know, it's probably more important than ever to go and shake your rancher's hand.
Now, there's there's a couple places in this interview where I also suggest the possibility of going and finding whether or not go find out whether or not your local university now this is going to be not at the, you know, maybe at a college level but generally speaking, this is more gonna be about universities like university of tech the Texas Tech University, University of Idaho, Washington State University a lot of these Texas A&M, University of Texas, these are all like basically land grant colleges. Well, University of Texas isn't but it doesn't matter because they're they're knee deep in ranching. They've got meat departments too. So if for whatever reason you can't get a hold of a rancher, and you can do that through the beef initiative, but if if you want a different way to look at getting your meat somewhere other than the supermarket, because if you're buying from the supermarket, you're probably not buying domestic beef that was produced here in the United States. You're probably buying beef that was produced in Brazil or, God forbid, Australia.
And me and Texas Slim get into all that. But just be aware that these universities have their own they they have to especially the land grant stuff, they're all about agriculture. Right? So you gotta teach people not only how to raise cattle and hog and chickens and all that kind of stuff and how to farm that, but you've gotta be able to teach a whole other group of people how to cut that. How How do you slaughter the animal? How do you do it humanely? How do you get the skin off? How do you gut it? What do you do with all that? How do you cut the meat that's left over? How do you package it? How do you sell it? How do you market this? You know universities have that. Okay. So if you for whatever reason go to your rancher first, please for the love of God, but if you can't find a rancher don't automatically default and go to the back to the supermarket.
Dude, find your local agricultural university and go see if they've got a meat department. Most likely if they're a land grant college or an ag based college they do and their meat is generally speaking raised the right way. Right? It's good meat, right? If they're they're teaching people how to ranch and then they you know those people go off and they start little ranches and then they they they do the thing this it's all part of getting away from the supermarket meat aisle. You want to do that. You want you want to be able to eat the meat that was raised in your own country for various reasons that I won't get into. But enough said, let's get into this one with Texas Slim.
[00:08:52] Texas Slim:
We're doing good, David. I'm sitting here on the county square in which you and I met. I don't know how many years ago. It's over 3 years ago. But I'm sitting in my pickup truck and where it all began, really.
[00:09:04] David Bennett:
Are you out in front of that, new place that you and, Justin put up?
[00:09:08] Texas Slim:
Yes. I am. It's right over my shoulder right here. Can you see it? Yes. I can.
[00:09:13] David Bennett:
Yes. I can. It's like it it's weird seeing, like, just like like these little splotches in your, like, through your car windows and recognizing every single brick. And I didn't live in Canyon that long, but I gotta tell you, Texas, I, god, I really I miss being in the state, because I grew up there. I was born there. I lived most of my life there, But I only lived in Canyon for a couple of years, and I really miss it. I I really do.
[00:09:42] Texas Slim:
Yeah. You know, that's something I've always missed ever I was a kid because this is you know, I was born and raised. 100 yards right there is where I was actually born, and I was raised here. And I had to leave because this town died. But, you know, throwing up your time here, it was on a regrowth. You know? Yeah. And it's a revitalization. So there's a lot thing you know, it's happening here. And what's gonna be interesting to see where this develops into as far as a community, you know, and through my relationship with Justin, my relationship with you, of course, and everybody that's come through the you know, we call it the gates of the beef initiative.
It's about revitalizing these small towns that we've lost. And we're in a good position, and I feel pretty pretty good about everything where we are. I mean, the rancher storefront, man, it's picking up steam. The people are divorcing the supermarket. That's what I tell every one of them when they come in.
[00:10:39] David Bennett:
That okay. Well, let's let's actually start right there with the Rancher's Reserve. Tell everybody about you're in Canyon, Texas. Like I said, where where you were born, you grew up, and you've come back to what is Rancher's Reserve because I don't think enough people know about it. I the only reason that, you got ahold of me, and then, of course, I was reading y'all's newsletter from the beef initiative, and that's the way that I found out about it. But for those people who have not heard about what you are doing, what is it?
[00:11:12] Texas Slim:
Well, let me correct real quick, and and I know why you'd and I've done it myself. It's Rancher Storefront. Here is what it's called here in Canyon. But what that is, let's let yeah. Let's paint that picture. You know, I started the beef initiative in many different ways, but one of the very first formal handshakes that I had was with Justin Trammell and, and his father, Donnie, the Trammell family. They have Trammell cattle. They have tier bloom. And what they have now and they didn't have it at the time when we started the beef initiative, they didn't have a processing center. So as we were building out the beef initiative, they in we were in unison basically capturing every move that they were making as far as opening up a microprocessing center back here in Canyon, Texas that's called Panhandle Meats.
Okay. Through basically the facilitation and the creation of Panhandle Meats, they've created several storefronts. 1 outside of the processing center, so that's revenue that they didn't have before. Okay? Processing is now revenue that they didn't have before. And now on the county square of Canyon, Texas, we have a retail storefront, and it's a revenue generator because of that microprocessing center, because they are cattle people in the state of Texas. So now we have a processing center that is the full vertical integration of the food supply. That's what everybody me and you sat over there at Palace Coffee and saying this is what everybody thinks is not possible. Well, guess what? We're living proof.
It started with the processing center. Donnie's father, you know, Justin, he grew up in agriculture. Donnie, you know, they ran the Emerald Livestock Auction House for years, you know, Harry's grandfather. This is what they took away from everybody's understanding that is possible in the United States. And this was my mission saying bullshit. This is how you basically get back your food supply. It's through the processing center and we've proven it and we're proving it all over the nation now. This is just a new industry model. Microprocessing center, you got your herd of cattle, you bring other herds in, you bring other ranchers in, they get their products processed, basically harvested at the processing center. You turn it back to them. They get to basically take it to the market how they best see fit.
Maybe it's half cows, maybe it's quarter cows, maybe it's just the cuts of the cow, but now they're still full in control of what they're doing with their cattle instead of handing it over at the auction house that has basically been hijacked by the multinational processing centers. So now we have a retail storefront in Canyon, Texas that sell local produce, local, basically beef, everything that they do as far as trammel cattle, but everything that Justin also does is tier bloom. He does hog. He does poultry. He does lamb. So we're hitting every animal protein you can now get at the Rancher storefront in unison and collaboration with the beef initiative. We went in partnership on the Rancher storefront.
I get to sell cuts of cow, basically, that he doesn't sell, and I don't compete with him. We support each other. Right. So how how long has the store been open? Just We opened it up 3 days before Christmas this year. Okay. This past year. Yeah.
[00:14:38] David Bennett:
And you're you're saying you've seen significant growth. Who are who are the customers that are coming in? Because, you know, Canyon They're all local. They're local. They're okay. So so even though that Canyon itself isn't it like, when I left, Canyon, was on a rebound, but it wasn't shall I say, it didn't seem like it had the population that I would have thought would have the kind of cash to go from the supermarket to a smaller operation. So does that mean that the prices that you guys are your price points are in, in, competitive nature with what's going on in supermarket?
[00:15:22] Texas Slim:
Well and I think that, you know, it's a good question for sure. Well, I think it really, it's my job now is, you know, what is the perception of everybody out there? You and I have talked about this before. It's like, oh, it's too expensive. Right? It's like, okay. Well, you know, let's just start with, let's start with perspectives and perceptions, and perceptions and perspectives need to change in the United States. Okay. Let's look at, what is grocery store retail beef right now? What do you think it is? As in price or Brown yeah. Brown beef. Brown beef. I'm sorry. For just ground beef, what is it? Gotcha. A pound? Yeah. Just about. Just about. Same thing same thing to retail storefront, man. You know exactly where your beef is coming from. Bullshit. It's not it's not an excuse anymore. Yeah. So you asked say that. That is the point that I've been trying to tell other people is that if you actually were to take the time
[00:16:17] David Bennett:
and people won't do that, it's almost as if they're just they refuse to actually spend 5 minutes to go into another place and and look at prices. And I I mean, I've got to the point now where I take pictures of prices on my phone Right. Just so just so that I can see what the hell's going on in other places. And it's it's amazing that I can go to a university meat shop, you know, like up here at WSU, you know, the the college is closest to me and Idaho University, which is just across the border. They both have meat shops, and they're both really good beef. They both raise them the way that they're supposed to be raised, and they butcher them there because they're they all have classes on how to do this.
[00:17:03] Texas Slim:
Right. Well and you bring your process are competitive. Yeah. And WT does the same thing. Right? I mean Right. They had the same type of system. And, really, it is. It's a knee jerk response to most people. And after a while, I don't validate it anymore. It's like, I'm being wrong. You're just Right. You're just knee jerking into that response. You're not really thinking about what you're saying. And, you know, you look back in my childhood, you used to go and you bought your animal protein, your staples. Right? You got your commodities from one place. You really did. You got your butter, your milk, your eggs, your beef, your bacon, your poultry, your whatever it was. You got that at a different place right here in Canyon, Texas.
So it really is, behavioral, you know, issues. It's it's, you know, excuses. It's rationalization, justification. But if you really take the time, like you said, and kinda just investigate it a little bit, you take pride in divorcing the supermarket. Because the supermarket is not a good comparison. It's not good comparison for our producers that raise that beef from the very beginning, and then they had to surrender it over to the, you know, the auction houses, which are the packers. And so this is where we basically bring that new clarity and education saying, hey. You know, we're the other bid producers. Take it to this micro processing center. We'll sell you beef right here or just sell it to us, and then we'll retail your beef. You're gonna make the same amount of money that you were. You're gonna make more actually now. Right. People are starting to figure that out. And Yeah. You know, of course, I mean, you cannot compare something like what we've done with Right Your Storefront and in the beef initiative, every producer, you know, hundreds of hundreds of producers are in the beef initiative now.
Okay. You can't compare their work to what you're finding in the retail supermarket. It's not a good comparison because that's a commodity and it's subsidized. So how do you compare against a subsidized product? You don't. It's not fair. It's it's cheapened. It's devalued. It's it's not real. It's a it's a fabricated price anyways, and JBS taught us that. Tyson teaches us every day. They can manipulate retail storefront prices any day of the week, and they don't have to tell you why. And so here, you're only always gonna get consistency. You're gonna know if the price hike goes up. Or if it goes down, you're gonna know why, and you're gonna know exactly where that cow came from. It's real simple. So simple, it's complicated. You've heard me say that a 100 times. Yeah. But let's get back to the basics here. What we've done is engineered us back into the basics. It's a inversion
[00:19:42] David Bennett:
of what they took away from us. Yeah. And a lot of people don't remember that, like, in Midland, Texas when I was a kid, my mom the grocery go and go get groceries was 4 stops. It was the grocery store, which did not have produce and did not have a meat market, So you had to go to a produce store. We went to Imperial Produce in Midland. That's that's where we got all the produce. Then you had to go to Hank's Meat Market where we got our meat. And I tried to describe that that situation to my kids, and they just they're clueless. They just they don't have any concept of how that actually worked. But my recommendation for anybody that's listening is that if you have spend the time to go find your guy. Is if if you don't wanna go all the way out to a ranch, then is there a meat market?
Is there somewhere that's not in your supermarket? And go find out. And if you if you can't if you can't do that or or go to a rancher, then do you have a university that is an agricultural based university? If so, do a Google search for the name of that university and meat department or meat grading or something like that because chances are really good. What you'll find out is they they actually have a meat market that they sell to the public.
[00:21:01] Texas Slim:
So Right. Please Well, right now spend the time. Right right now, go to maps.beefinitiative.com. Go find your producer right now. Exactly. And if and if you don't have a if we don't have that producer that's close to you and you know of 1, let's get their butts in there. You know? This is a open source, crowdsource index. You know? That's how it was basically created. It was one person at a time, one handshake, one rancher in this, searchable global searchable index. We just went global with our mapping system too. That's got producers we've got producers in Finland, South America, Europe. You can't this is gonna this is gonna expand.
And everybody goes, how are you gonna scale this? Well, I don't like to use that word, but I'll scale across the globe just like, you know, everybody else does, especially with the mapping system now that can tie you into all these independent ranchers and producers across the planet. That's that's pretty impressive. So here we are. Okay. So
[00:22:00] David Bennett:
we're really lucky that your store didn't burn down because you were up there in West Texas, and West Texas just suffered some of the most lethal large scale fires in the history of the Panhandle.
[00:22:14] Texas Slim:
And when I looked at the map Texas. In the history of Texas.
[00:22:17] David Bennett:
It it when I looked at the map, the fire map, because I was before I got to the map, I was going, you know, where is this fire? Thankfully, it was north and east of you guys, but still that that doesn't alleviate the absolute devastation that arrived. So from you were there, can you tell everybody what you saw?
[00:22:40] Texas Slim:
Yeah. And this is you know, it's it's funny because I was in Tulia, Texas that day, and we were at a food growing summit that was hosted by the Oglala Commons. And you knew about them whenever you were here. And so me and Justin were down there, and it was it's been windy. You know, it's springtime or, you know, late winter. You know, it gets very windy here. And, and so it was extremely windy. And as we were driving from Toya all the way back up to Canyon, heading north, you could you could just see the sky, and there's like, okay. Yeah. There's a wildfire. We get them all the time. Right? Right. We have fires. We're in the desert high plains and the wind blows. We don't get enough rain. There's a lot of reasons all this has kinda transpired, but it was big, and it was moving, and it was moving fast. And so that was Tuesday night when it happened.
And all of a sudden, the sky was basically just smoke, and it was moving towards Amarillo. It started right on the perimeter close to Canadian River for your reference. Yeah. But it got even closer to that. It was right there on the northeast side of Amarillo. You know, it was out there at Pantex. They were, they were evacuating Pantex. So it got right on the loop, and then it but the wind shifted, and the wind shifted to the north. And so that's whenever it started traveling to the north to the northeast. That's why I went into all the way from the Texas Panhandle all the way into Oklahoma.
That just gives you perspective of how big it was. And so nobody really knew, and nobody still knows to this day how big it is. Mhmm. The type of devastation. That's 1,200,000 acres. Yeah. And then all that was was grasslands, and all that was was ranchers. All that was was rural America. All that was was cattle. And it's it's it's really it's gonna take a long time to really see what the impact is, but I know the immediate impact is not good for the cattle industry, for the local economy. You know, we've got all the the law firms swooping in now, you know, insurance claims. Now it's lawsuit. Let's blame who who who's who's gonna take all the blame? What class action lawsuits are we gonna bring forth? And so here we go. But you know what? We got ranches that are never gonna come back. We got cut herds that'll never be grown or raised again.
And so that's why, you know, through the through the foundation, I am Texas Slim Foundation, the the nonprofit, the 501, whatever they're called, 503 BC, we've got a, Texas fire relief fund going. And this is gonna be a re, regrowing our soil, regrowing our lands, regrowing our herds. But first, we gotta heal some things right now. And, I'm in a lot of talks. We've already raised, you know, a good amount of money. I hope to raise probably this calendar year. I hope to raise, you know, I don't know. I'm not gonna put a limit on it. But I me personally, I'm shooting for a $100,000 as far as because we've got inputs. We've got seed. We got feed. We got fertilizer, and we've got a bunch of orphan calves right now. And all these ranchers that didn't lose all their herds, it's calving season. They're starting to drop calves. We got prematures that are happening right now. We've got orphan calves that don't have any, you know, formulas.
We've got all kinds of issues, and the world's already forgot about this damn fire. And Yeah. And everything, really, the impact of this, nobody even really knows yet. But once again, now that all the attorneys are here, everybody's just it's a money grab now. So we're gonna come up underneath, and we're going to basically regrow and reheal everything that's been devastated. We've got cows that are still being put down because of of the smoke. You know, we've got injured. All the vets in the in the Texas Panhandle, man, they're overwhelmed.
[00:26:31] David Bennett:
This is this is just now started, but everything you know? Like I said, everybody's already forgot about it. Okay. So let's not forget about at least one of the numbers that we know about is last I heard, we were looking at 40,000 head of cattle dead. And now that's probably gone up to 50?
[00:26:51] Texas Slim:
We don't know. The mortality mortalities. I talked to somebody, rancher yesterday. They, their herd, it was about 400. They they put down a 120 mortalities yesterday. So that just gets the perspective. So who knows?
[00:27:07] David Bennett:
40, 50, 100. You know? We don't know yet. So what we don't know the the direct mortality rate, we're not sure of the ache the amount of acreage burned. And that would mean that we're not sure exactly how many different operations that were private or, smaller ranching operations. We don't know the number of that as to how many people were affected. How do you how do you compile mortalities
[00:27:32] Texas Slim:
through a massive wild fire I don't in the middle of cattle country in the state of Texas? Who gets to have those numbers? Who gets to generate those numbers? If you go through some a system like the multinational system, the cattle industry, like, if you have to go through and count mortalities like they do, shit, they hide mortalities all the time in Hartford, Texas. Insured. This is gonna be a numbers game that really takes a long time to get some true clarification on.
[00:28:10] David Bennett:
Yeah. Now Justin, Trammell down there, he was unaffected himself or was Right.
[00:28:21] Texas Slim:
No. He he was totally unaffected. Donnie has his cattle here in closer to Canyon, but he's he's got a herd out there in San Juan, New Mexico right across the border as well. So, you know, like, that's how a lot of cattle ranchers are. They, you know, they change, you know, different pastures, you know, regen you know, different regenerative methods, you know, as far as, you know, keeping them on rotational grazing, stuff like that. So but, no, they weren't affected.
[00:28:48] David Bennett:
Okay. Okay. Alright. So do you have I mean, let I gotta put on a tinfoil hat here because I maybe you know something about it and maybe you don't. What's the deal with the blue roofs thing? Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?
[00:29:05] Texas Slim:
Oh, is that the DEW crap?
[00:29:09] David Bennett:
The directed energy weapon? Is that yeah. I've I've I've heard, like, more than 3 people talk about that none of the houses out there that were wiped out, that the ones that that didn't get wiped out had blue roofs, and I don't know. Do do you have any boots on the ground about that, or is it all just bullshit?
[00:29:30] Texas Slim:
Oh, this was a fast moving grass fire that was fueled by a lot of dry, basically, forage. And, they, you know, they they jump. These fires jump. Oh, yeah. Nobody's nobody's ever seen a grass fire. There was one, rancher, basically, producer. They had what they could. They loaded up in their stock trailers what they could, their horses, number 1, and they got trapped. And so they had to go back to their house. They had to go back to their barn because they were engulfed, and there's no way out. They couldn't drive out. It was pitch black, smoke, fire, everything. They got everything unloaded off their trailers, got in between their house and a shed, and that fire was getting close to them. That fire jumped their house.
Okay? It jumped over and totally missed the house. So the blue roofs, you guys, stop it. Let's let's talk about the truth. Right? Alright.
[00:30:27] David Bennett:
That's what that's what I wanted to hear because I was just I was just sweat or, thinking that this was all just BS. And, you know, and and when you say fires jump, I know that about that firsthand because they like, if if you even in forest, in mountainous areas, these fires will jump, like, 100 of yards and not burn you know, they won't burn by the creek, but they will jump over a creek. And then 200 yards out, they'll pick back up, and it ends up being just a a terrible thing. But now I wanna I wanna transition away from the fires because we beat that one to death. So EPA.
And Yes. This is where we start getting into some of the more horrific issues that we're they're facing, and the fire is bad enough. But now you've brought to light some issues going on with the EPA and, what is it, water?
[00:31:24] Texas Slim:
Yeah. I mean, Environmental Protection Agency is a, is a fascinating, whatever they are. But but, anyways, yeah, they've they've got some legislation. And, you know, the EPA has been used many, many times over as an attack vector against everything that we do in the cattle industry, and here we go. The the the basically, moving forward in the next 10 years is gonna be fascinating because, you know, the the climate change, you know, the planet's burning up. So they're gonna use all kinds of different idealistic bullshit reasons to come out and try to regulatory capture a lot of industries. And so what they're proposing, it would be a a a big impact on microprocessing centers in the United States, and that's what we're bringing to light. What are they proposing? Which we all want clean water, but there's a lot of things that they're what they're proposing as far as this bill that we're already taken care of, and we've got the proof. So this is I think they're trying to slow step into more regulation, more regulatory capture.
They can use it as a weapon instead of, basically, you know, something that's truly good for local municipalities and local community food sheds, local community microprocessing centers. This is a way that they can eliminate a lot of them because I've already looked at numbers and how many that they propose would shut down. It's a lot more than that. I think they said 16 in that article I sent you that we wrote up, but I'd say a couple of 100 at least would be affected by this, and they would be basically regulated out of business. So
[00:33:03] David Bennett:
Yeah. See and this is here I'm I'm I'm reading this that you that you sent me. It's it's not y'all's press release. It was this thing from Brianna Sagdol?
[00:33:19] Texas Slim:
Brianna Sagdol. She is our research, she's she's she's our, basically, press media and, research confidant. So she's got a lot of experience in stuff like this. She worked in close with Justin as far as legislation, everything that we're doing, you know, facilitating food, farmer, ranch, Freedom Alliance, all that.
[00:33:42] David Bennett:
Okay. So this is hold on. I just wanna make sure that I've I've got this. Yeah. Okay. The the the, state of Washington is mentioned in this and some of the ranchers that I was talking to last year. The way that they're being pushed around, off of like, they can't be anywhere close to a they can't be any they cannot have their cattle, like, 200 yards off of the edge of any stream, any river, any any, like, a crook, and and they kept getting pushed back. And this one this one, family that I was talking to was saying that the Army Corps of Engineers, because the Snake River is real close to where they are, and when you get major waterways that are used for transit of goods and services, the army corps of engineers is automatically involved.
And they came they came up on their land and told them that they were gonna have to, build a fence 200 yards off of off of something. And they go, well, you know, the families looks at him and says, well, how are you gonna pay for that? Yeah. They said, no. You're you're gonna pay for it.
[00:35:01] Texas Slim:
Exactly.
[00:35:01] David Bennett:
And their answer was like, you know what? We're done. No. We're not paying for it. If you want a fence there, then you build the fence there. We'll keep the cattle 200 yards off of the river edge, but we're not building the fence because we can't afford it, and we're just not gonna do it. So whatever it is they got to the point where they were literally looking at the car car the Army Corps of Engineers and saying to the United States government, no. Not because we don't want to, because we can't. We don't have the money. We don't have the time. We don't have the manpower. Because you're I mean, building a fence, people think, oh, well, it's not that big of a deal. Yeah. Around your house.
Try try doing a couple of miles of it. You know, try doing 15.
[00:35:47] Texas Slim:
Well, let's go back to this what this is proposed, and it's a it's a water filtration system that will cost quarter of a $1,000,000. And if you're a microprocessing center, you can't afford that. So once again, boom. Regulatory capture. Everybody say it out loud. Regulatory capture. Say it with the little West Texas slang. Regulatory capture.
[00:36:08] David Bennett:
Well Here we go, guys. This is what this is. And and that's and this ends up being sort of a modus operandi for for the United States government is Of course. We can't we can't, like they'll say this. It's like we can't get them directly because they own heads of cattle. We can't get them directly because they're grazing the cattle. But then they can say, well, what is it that we control almost top to bottom of, and then you come to water? Yeah. And the minute that they say water, it becomes a major issue because at this point, water affects everything.
If if your runoff goes to your neighbor's land or runs to your neighbor's land, and then your Yeah. And then after it comes off of your neighbor's land Up downstream. Yeah. It's like the second that it hits a navigable waterway, boom, army corps of engineers and all the rest of the EPA regulations are automatically now turned on. And all they had to do was say, you know what? With the rain and the runoff and all those cows, there's gotta be at least some fecal coliform that's coming down to this navigable waterway. Let's turn on we can turn on our engine.
Before that, they weren't able to turn on the engine. And it looks like they've they've they've at least hit upon this magical like, they're waving a magic wand saying, fecal coliform, and it's runoff, and that's our business. So now we can regulate everybody upstream even if they're nowhere close to a river. That's everybody.
[00:37:45] Texas Slim:
Well and it it it affects reservations. It affects every yeah. It's it's a it's a form of weaponization that can be, you know, bogged down in bureaucracy, you know, lawsuits and everything. It doesn't it's not you know, people people don't understand why, you know, producers and ranchers and landowners go away in the United States in the modern day. It's usually because they can't afford to own the land anymore because they're getting regulated out of it. You know, you look at what you just said. Let's look at Jason Rick of Rick Ranches there in Crawford, Colorado. You know? He's a pioneer. He's one of the, basically first people into the beef initiative. Every bit of his water is based on the Army Corps of Engineers and, basically the irrigation system right there in the Norfolk Valley of Colorado.
Mhmm. You talk about having to follow a lot of damn water rules and being on top of his game at all times because that's how he he that water goes through everything that he stewards, all of his land, everything that he does. And if he if he does anything wrong towards all these regulations and they can like you said, they can come back to him and say, hey. We got you. You're doing it wrong. You're gonna have to do this. So he's fighting that every day of his life.
[00:39:03] David Bennett:
Okay. So we've got about 9 minutes left on this call. And Okay. This is this is leading us into an even more sinister issue that you were talking about. A generalized global food supply chain shift. Yeah. Can you can you outline that for us in the last part of this, interview?
[00:39:25] Texas Slim:
Sure. And I'm gonna read you really fast on this, and I'm gonna tell everybody to read the Harvest of Deception. Do a do a Google search, Harvest of Deception, Texas Slim, and read the one that's hosted on the beef initiative platform. Okay. Several years ago, back in 2016, 17, there was basically mass consolidation in the chemical and grain, global corporations. Same thing with our food industries. Well, in 2017, they got the marching order to basically create a one world food group, and they are doing it. It's happening in real time. What's not happening in real time is the general public's understanding what's going on. We're going through a global industrial food shift.
Look what happened during COVID. That is basically just a test run. That was nothing more than basically, hey. Let's see how we can make this better as far as eliminating market access to a lot of nutritionist food in the Western Hemisphere for most of us here. They built out global ranches. We've got countries that can't feed their people. We got multinational corporations that are stealing natural resources from the United States of America and anywhere they can, and they're selling it to the highest bidder on the global industrial industry, basically, apparatus.
Okay? This is happening. Supply chain lines are changing. You got bricks now. Everything is shifting. This is a new food system that they're implementing. And they're taking animal protein everything is being, basically marketed to the general public right now. This ain't happening in the other hemisphere. This is only happening in the western hemisphere, but the most Americans don't understand that they are being robbed of their nutrition. That's the biggest thing. You're being robbed of your nutrition and and it's being sold on the global market in a different way than it ever has before.
Okay? They've devalued our food systems. And so now, as I said, 3 4 years ago, they're gonna turn beef into caviar. That's exactly your perspective you need to have. They're going to this year, in the United States of America, you watch what happens. It'll be known as the summer of pork. Okay? And so this is part of that shift. They're basically reengineering processing centers. They're introducing bug plant processing centers. That's what Tyson just did 2 weeks ago. We're gonna start, processing bugs in the United States. Okay.
We are now in the United States of America, one of the lowest inventories that we've ever had with cattle. Okay? Well, also, we now are importing more beef into the United States than we are consuming. We're now eating more imported beef than we are eating our own domestic beef. That's never happened before. That's part of this global industrial food shift. Most people don't understand because they go to the grocery store and it looks the same. Where's the country of origin labeling? Ain't ever gonna be on your packaging, and they're gonna say they have this new voluntary label that they just did, you know, product of the USA. That's 2 years that they will even try to enforce, and that's 2 years of voluntary representation. That's nothing more than a distraction.
So what we're gonna see is basically a big food shift, and it's gonna be gradual. It's been gradual, but they've been working on this for now 6 years, and their goal is 2030. They've gotta get all the carbon credits. They gotta do everything. This is a global industrial food shift, and who's gonna pay the prices? Our independent ranchers, producers, and the consumers that don't understand what true food intelligence is, and they get most of their data from labels. Labels are a joke. And if you're still relying on labels to basically teach you or to inform you of what the nutrition is, then you're cheating your child out of true nutrition these days.
[00:43:37] David Bennett:
Okay. So I I wanna connect that up with this could've kinda wanted to put them together is that if was I mean and and I can be viewed as having another tinfoil hat on my head or not. I actually don't I actually don't care at this point because at the same time, what you're saying is occurring, where we're importing more international beef and consuming it than we are our own domestic beef. At the same time, that it's clear that the pressure internally from the United States government on our domestic ranchers because of the water issue is going to make them produce even less beef. And we just had a we actually just had this major fire that wiped out god only knows how much of the Texas herds.
So that's that that shift is going to become more to more international beef coming in, less domestic beef even go being able to go out, and that that is going out is the caviar that you're talking about, then at one point or another, the only thing left to do to the American people in the Western Hemisphere, or at least the United States, is to shut down the importation of beef because that's when they'll say, but look how much fuel you have to burn to get this beef from Brazil, Australia. We just we can't do that anymore. So you're just gonna have to live with the fact that you don't get beef. So my my ending thing here, as we're coming to the close of this, is that it's more important than ever to form that relationship with your rancher that should be local, if at all possible, a agricultural college meat department, because they are viable at least still a little bit. Texas Tech has a great one. They're I mean, it's it's one of the best Yeah. They do. They they really do. But the rancher the the private ranchers, any anything that you can do that supports the domestic beef is the only option going forward for high quality animal protein and fat nutrition.
At least Percent.
[00:45:54] Texas Slim:
And and and if 50% of that is correct, David, then we win. That's it. And and then the individual that makes the decision to basically divorce the supermarket, okay, the only way this changes is by consumer demand. And those leaders that are out there in the front saying, hey. We're not gonna pull put up with the bullshit deceptions anymore. This is what we're going to do. So in closing, let's look at pork. Okay? Who controls who owns Tyson? Okay. That's Smithville. Okay. Who who owns Smithville? That's the CCP of China. It's definitive.
Okay? Most of the pork in the United States is shipped in from where? Okay. Our imports are at all time high. Tyson shutting down domestic processing of pork, but we're basically our import of porks are growing exponentially. Where's that pork coming from? Everybody's concerned about mRNA vaccines in beef. Well, they've been doing that in pork already. So people need to understand they have to create their own basically decentralized food systems. And you do it if if you want to or not. That's that's new. I'm letting you know that this is a lifestyle change. It's a behavior change, and it basically helps you build community. It's over my shoulder right here. Look what we've done. And people are. People are flocking into that Rancher storefront because they're tired of the bullshit.
[00:47:18] David Bennett:
Alright. That's it. Alright, Texas Slim. Thank you for, taking time out of your day. Appreciate it. Me and you will talk later, but I think this thing is about to end here in about 10 seconds. So I'm just gonna shut it down, and I'll talk to you later, man.
[00:47:33] Texas Slim:
We'll talk to you soon.
[00:47:34] David Bennett:
Now I would have liked to have gone a lot longer with Texas Slim, but, you know, I had to actually the the the software that I was gonna use wasn't gonna work for Texas Slim, so therefore, we had to use, god forbid, Zoom, which only gives you 40 minutes if you don't have, if you don't have a, like, one of their accounts, you can only do 40 minutes at a time. But, honestly, you know, I I actually kind of appreciated that because it gives me it's sort of like one of those. It's sort of like a permaculture thing where if you have nothing but a blank sheet of paper and doing a design on that blank sheet of paper with no restrictions, you know, in this case, no time limit, you know, would be like a one of the non restrictions, It becomes kind of harder to actually do the design. So in a real way, I kind of appreciate the 40 minute time limit because it makes sure that you don't dilly dally around.
And we got into it. Those are the 4 points that we really wanted to hit was his opening up of Rancher storefront with Justin Trammell, the Texas fires, the EPA and the global food shift. Because these are the things that you really need to know about. This this this global food shifting, it's not abating. It's getting worse. See, that's what that's what we're trying to tell you. If you're trying to figure out, for whatever reason, if we didn't hit it on the head right in that interview for you, this is starting to accelerate. And I'm I'm gonna say it again if you didn't pick it up in the interview, The EPA now that they're looking at water runoff from cattle ranching operations, there's no way you can get away from that.
I mean, other than just tell the United States government to go stick it and hope they don't send you to, you know, send a drone strike over you because, you know, God only knows what they'll do. There are crazy people that are starting to be in charge. They're just some of these people are absolutely insane. It doesn't mean all of them are insane, but some of them are insane. Right? God only knows what they'll do. If if a rancher just says, you know what? No. Just know. I mean who knows what what'll happen but what one of the things that is the most insidious part about water navigable waterways and clean water systems in the United States is that the United States basically owns them.
Now I'm not sure about Texas per se because Texas came into the union with owning all of its water rights all of its land rights all of its airspace rights and all of its mineral rights So in a very real way, Texas may escape the the biggest brunt of what could be brought to bear. You can't ranch anymore because we found, I don't know, 100 colony forming units of of fecal coliform in your water stream per milliliter, which is honestly not a whole lot. But if you have your ranching shit closed down because there's just no way that you can keep a 100 colony forming units of fecal coliform out of the water column coming off of your land. It doesn't matter what good, you know, how good of a steward of that land that you are. They can just shut you down, which means no meat production.
And if they continuously do that and that in it, Texas, like I said, may escape. But Texas is the only state of the union that I know of that came in to the union with all of its rights intact. That was at least the deal that we made when we were kind of told that we were going to end up becoming part of the union. But Oklahoma doesn't have that, New Mexico doesn't have that, Colorado doesn't have that, Washington State doesn't have that, You name it. I can go on and on and on and on and on. They don't have that. Most of the land is BLM or Bureau of Land Management Land in the United States except for Texas. They have very few acreage in Texas.
And I'll guarantee they want that to change too. But water runs everywhere. See, that's the thing. That's what's so insidious about this EPA thing going on is that water runs downhill and it runs over distance and that water connects up with other water. So at this point, there's going to be water that actually ends up getting into places that the Army Corps of Engineer Engineers the EPA the Navigable Waters Act or whatever the hell that was called to the to the issue that means that they can control anything upstream. So if your wall if your column of water coming off your land has an issue and they can tell you that it's going to impact an issue that they have control over somehow or another, they're going to be able to extend that control all the way up the water column to wherever that issue they say is happening.
And if they can just shut you down, we've got other food problems coming down the pipe. Now, he mentioned pork. Pork, you know, beef will be caviar and then will be relegated to pork. Pork is even worse in production as far as fecal coliform and all kinds of bad stuff coming out of the effluent stream and water. So you can expect that to be shut down. And then chicken manure, oh my God. At one point or another, you're probably gonna find out that the government is gonna go absolutely through the roof when it when when they start telling us how much nitrogen is in the manure of a bunch of chickens.
Because there's a lot of nitrogen. There's also a lot of phosphorus in it but we won't that that's another issue. It's the nitrogen that they'll say. They'll go, oh, but nitrogen is gonna cause algal blooms in all of the watersheds. And therefore, it's gonna kill all the fish because the algae will eat will, you know, respire all the oxygen and the fish won't have anything left and it's just gonna be a big mess. It will be like one chain reaction that goes from cattle to pork to chickens to turkeys to you name it. And unless we're really, really careful and really, really on the ball and this is where shaking your rancher hand really comes into play, if we can't keep those ranchers in the money.
And I'm not talking 1,000,000 of dollars they don't I you know I'm not saying that we need to make them rich, But it would be nice if they could just have the living and the more that they have a living the more they're going to fight for that living If we don't shake our ranchers hand, if we don't buy their products, if we don't appreciate the work that they put in They're not going to do the work and they're gonna end up selling their land to Cargill or J and B or JBS or, you know, Smithville and Smithfield and Tyson and whoever, all the people that we mentioned in this interview. It's up to us, man.
It's up to us individually. And if we can't get it done, I I don't really know what the hell is gonna happen. You know, what at what point does the state, you know, the do state and, you know, or public universities, at what point do they have their ranching shut down? At what point does the United States government say, you know what? You you get a lot of grants from the NIH. You get a lot of grants from the National Science Foundation. You and NIH's National Institutes of Health. Those are the 2 main funding organisms of the United States government for research at the university level. And don't discount the Department of Energy, which also does a lot of granting, but more what's even weirder is the Department of Defense and they do a lot of granting to biology and ask me how I know later. Do it on Noster or send me a boostogram or something like that. But one of my favorite t one of my favorite professors at Texas Tech University, all of his grants were DOD, and he was studying slime mold.
You do with that whatever the hell it is you wanna do with that. But DOD, DOE, NIH, NSF, these are all you this is all United States government money. And all these same universities had to convert their their university campuses to nonsmoking campuses or they were gonna lose all that grant money. And all it took them to do was been, you know, a a $100,000 putting up and buying a whole bunch signs that said you can't smoke here and put it up around these campuses. People still smoke, but you're not supposed to. But at least they had to do that. Otherwise, they were gonna lose their grants. None of their professors were gonna be able to keep their labs open. Now check this shit out. What happens if they say, you know what, you can't be involved in animal stuff anymore on your for your campus. Your meat lab, no. That that's gotta go away. You can't teach anybody you can kiss them goodbye.
And all the people that you employ in your laboratories gotta go away because you don't need them because you won't get grants, so you're not gonna be doing any experiments, which means you don't need any butts in seats. See how this works? It the money flow for universities is the same as what I'm talking about when I'm talking about the column of water and all they have to do is trace it upstream, and they that reaches every single point. Every single point of land in the United States produces water whether by rainfall, snow melt, or springs.
And that water moves across every square inch of this country. Do you see? Do you see how insidious this is? That EPA business that's in this that's in the interview That's the most important part of all this That is absolutely the most important part of all this. So, be aware Go find your rancher. Go to beefinitiative.com Go to what was it Texas fires? Hold on. Let me get that get that open again because my phone decided to close. Texasfirerelief.com if you want to help out there. But if you want to do the most good, go find your rancher, go shake their hands, but more importantly, buy their products, and I will see you on the other side.
This has been Bitcoin, and and I'm your host, David Bennett. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and hope to see you again real soon. Have a great day.
Introduction to the Rancher Storefront and its impact on local communities
Discussion on the devastating fires in West Texas and the efforts to support affected ranchers
Overview of the proposed regulations by the EPA and their potential impact on microprocessing centers
Explanation of the global food supply chain shift and its implications
The shift towards more international beef and the need to support domestic beef
The importance of forming relationships with local ranchers and agricultural college meat departments
The control of pork production by foreign entities and the need for decentralized food systems
The global food shift and the potential consequences for the food system
