The Food System Is Breaking — Ranchers Are Taking It Back | 2/17/26

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Americans are paying more than ever for increasingly unhealthy food — yet ranchers are going out of business. In this interview, I sit down with Texas rancher Texas Slim, owner of Beef.com and co-founder of the Beef Initiative, to discuss the growing movement to decentralize beef production and reconnect communities directly to the people raising their food. He explains how regulations, consolidation, and globalized supply chains have separated consumers from local farmers — and why rebuilding local food networks may be critical to the country’s future. From meatpacking monopolies and the threat of AI data centers draining our aquifers to the disappearing family farms, this conversation reveals how the modern food system works — and what a “cow-to-fork” model could change. If communities control their food, they control their future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Politics without the soap opera with unfiltered constitutional conservative truth.
0:06.2	The Conservative Review with Daniel Burns.
0:09.1	And welcome back fellow American patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew
0:14.3	for the issues that matter on this fine Tuesday here at Blaze TV.
0:19.0	Your host, Daniel Harowitz, back here to discuss where is
0:23.8	the beef.
0:25.3	So, you know, we discuss a lot of the existential issues, housing, economy, culture, but everyone's
0:34.8	got to eat.
0:36.1	And a nation that does not have a cheap abundant supply of healthy
0:44.8	protein is not a nation that's going to survive and increasingly governmental policies these
0:51.3	five-year farm bills where they have socialized agricultural,
0:56.5	the ag industry, the same way they did with healthcare, by the way, has created a monopoly of
1:03.9	a lack of abundant, not cheap, and not healthy meat with the monopoly of the four meatpacking companies.
1:13.6	How do we decentralize, decentralized control over food?
1:18.6	How do we decentralize the entire process where neighbors and communities can buy food,
1:24.6	grow food, homegrown.
1:28.7	It's not good.
1:35.7	You know, it's not good in the sense that we have a record number of farms going at a business, a record number of ranchers, retiring, and it's not being passed down to the new
1:43.3	generation.
1:43.7	So is there an opportunity to change things?
1:48.3	Could we reset the Great Reset in Ag?
1:52.3	So we're going to have coming up, Texas Slim, the founder of the Beef initiative and
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