How to Beat BIG BEEF when the BEEF Industry is RIGGED!
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2024
- Go inside the rigged game of Big Beef and discover many differences between the giant Beef Industry and the local community based store front.
This video is about Mike Callicrate's story of deception and bribery as well as his will to build a community based food system that actually benefits the places that we live.
Order some beef or pork from Callicrate’s store by going to ranchfoodsdirect.com/.
This information is ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS!!! As a carnivore, I live 5 hours away from Colorado Springs and would be absolutely willing to drive to his store there, buy a lot of his frozen beef and pork and drive all the way back home with it just to support him. I refuse to buy the awful, bad-tasting beef from those big, evil, monopolizing meat packers who supply meat found in Albertson's, Walmart and other supermarkets. I am on a mission to support local ranchers and employees, to vote with my dollars for the best beef that will send the message to the monopolizers that I do NOT support their idiocy of choosing profits over people and proper nourishment. Period. Thank you, Trinity, for this fantastic interview and education!
20 names has kroger
Same Corruption happens here in Ireland know for the Best Grass Beef Butter and Cream in the World
Globalist 👹Larry Goodman has monopoly. 🤔🤢🤮
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I would like to try some of the soap also.
Great infomercial!
TRINITY, THIS PIECE OF WORK IS A SEMESTER'S WORTH OF AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS IN 41 MINUTES.
Shows you how dumbed-down the schools are.
NOW I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED 🇺🇸 GOD BLESS THIS WONDERFUL MAN 🇺🇸 HE FOUND A WAY TO SURVIVE & I PRAY🙏🤲 TO GOD TO BLESS HIM & HE CAN PUT ALL HIS PREVIOUS EMPLOYEES BACK TO WORK W/HIM 😊🇺🇸❤ GOD BLESS U DEARLY SWEET MAN🙏🤲🕊✝️😇❤
This man is sharing his whole heart and soul. He loves his herds, feeds them well which affects meat all the way up to the smoker/chef in his store. This is where health happens. Healthy animal products need to be sourced and supported.
I’ve been telling people this for 30 years and they thought I was stupid
Same but I live on a ranch.
I resemble that comment!
Problem is, those people you're telling are about as stupid as the cattle we raise.
30 years, and still nobody listens. America is too stupid to remain free, or remain well fed.
This plan needs to be spread far and wide an get corporations out of the food industry!
What a great man, we need people like this in Montana...
We need people like this everywhere
It would be much clearer if you made clear whom you're referring too 😉
In every community.
Someone needs to have him give seminars on how to set up such operations in their area and provide assistance to do it.
It is up to you to be that man. No one else is going to do it for you...
Mike should work with someone to spec out the entire system he uses so it can be duplicated and setup in as many locations as possible and then become a large thorn in the side of the giant meat packers. This would also be a benefit for the cattle ranchers and hog producers.
Thsnks for the information. There is a group of ranchers in Utah doing the same thing. This is what it takes to get big business out of our lives! Thanks Trinity!
Please provide info on this Utah group--name, location, website, etc. Thanks.
@@kmweekspe I think they are doing this in Richfield
Big business is big because they are doing a better job than little business. Big businesses start small. They understood vertical integration and economies of scale while the "little guy" never did. Don't punish success, think bigger.
S.E. Idaho is doing the same. Ball bros. just built a new meat packer here in Idaho Falls. Idaho grows good meat. Our hay is sought for, because it's grown in lava rich topsoil, the same as our potatoes. We have excellent dairys here as well.
@Sugarsail1 WRONG! There is collusion and corruption. The big multinationals are "Donating" to the politicians legally AND illegally. How do you think politicians make millions per year on a $250k salary, not to mention getting caught with piles of cash and gold bars
It’s really old school here in East Texas. Hundreds of Cattle standing on the edge of ponds surrounded by lush grassy fields or wandering freely in acres of ranch land. Then they are off to the auction probably to be sold off to corn finishers and processors. We can find this meat in our own grocery stores, but not in Walmart! What a difference in flavor. I hope this never changes. Our store even has the butchers in the back behind the glass window like years ago.
What type of stores are reintroducing true butchers and fresh cuts?
Depends on what part of Texas you are in. I do not know of any real butchers in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
@@ourfather7 Brookshire Brothers. We just got a butcher moved into a shop at a strip mall. I haven’t been there yet but planning to.
I'm in San Antonio I don't know any.
@@1165slugman there is a big farmers market there. People sell their products from their farms. I moved from S.A. to east texas and so glad I did. It’s there but expensive!
This guys lived experience should be a lesson for all of us younger folk. Big business and govt have worked hand in hand for decades to bring us to where we are at today. Food prices are astronimical, people are sicker than ever, and small businesses have been forcred out of the market. Generations before us were sold the lie and we are now seeing how the lie has unfolded for us regular folk. Bigger is not always better. For those of us able to we need to get back to supporting small business owners, local community and local producers. Your country was founded on this and it has unfortunately been hijacked by corrupt greed.
Only need to say, WEF, UN and globalism.
Trinity, you knocked it out of the ballpark , again! I’m with you all the way! Keep up the excellent work!❤️🙏🏻✝️🐂
I buy my beef from a friend who is a rancher in Montana...All grass fed, no antibiotics unless really needed. I have a half a cow on the way. Best beef ever. I can't even stand the smell of say Walmart beef. GREAT vid Trinity...keep em comin.
You are so right about the smell of meat at Walmart. My husband commented the last time we went to Walmart that he could smell the meat as he was walking past the meat section, it was that bad. Looking for grass fed beef, no more big box stores.
Agree with most of what you say. However there is nothing better about grass fed beef. Grass fed beef grades lower, and is cheaper to produce. Works with the marketing hype of Angus Breeders Association. You're buying marketing hype! If you notice, the best tasting beef is marbled. Look at Wagyu beef. Buy only Prime, it is not going to be grass fed. That would cost way to much to try to produce!
I agree my daughter is in the cattle Bo. Grass fed dose not have much good flavor,and it’s a lot of hype. The reason to eat locally is the cows usually have a better quality of life , not a lots of stress , antibiotics if needed, quality food and care . All cows eat grass but they have a better taste when finished out with grain for flavor ❤
It’s the same thing with vegetables. What you grow at home is 10x better the what the store sells! We need to go back to small farms feeding the community’s, the way it was in our grandparents days and before!
You should see what the state of Oregon is doing to the small farmers and meat,dairy.and egg production. Google Oregons stance on small farmers it’s disgusting. Wake up America
It isn’t just democrats it is also republicans they both are responsible for this problem under bush jr jbs was allowed to just walk in and with in I think or 2years buy up almost 30 percent of beef market and the rest of the meat processing industry then trump allowed dfa to take control of the dairy industry in 2019 and 2020
WE NEED TO STOP OVER FEASTING ON MEAT. IT HAS BECOME AN ATTROCITY!
@@THEROOTMATTERSLook up carnivore diet. So many people getting rid of all manner of diseases with it.
@@THEROOTMATTERSno one is forcing you to eat meat
Best yet!!
Hopefully you get picked for the next Secretary of Agriculture and get the USDA turned in the right direction.
Great thought , when Trump is returned the whole system requires great people put back in important positions. GBUSA
Talk to RFK about that when he wins the election in November!😊😊🙏🙏🥳🥳❤❤
RFK jr is changing out the old guard. Put this guy in charge of USDA and Dept of Ag.
Very Good video, everyone needs to see this. Thanks for Sharing this. 😊
Wow Mike's pigs actually know what sunshine is!
That's a nice operation. The info in the video is top notch. I can't even begin to afford those prices. In the Ozarks I'm getting grass fed angus for $1.50 over retail per pound and even cheaper by quarter or half carcass. Because people here believe in helping the AVERAGE family eat healthier and we support out local farmers. Everyone comes out ahead. Not just the ranchers.
I remember the meat cutting schools and union jobs available in the 70s and 80s. It used to be a good career in local markets.
Belonged to Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union. Great Job in Greeley CO in the 70's! Meat Diets in those days tasted so much better. Whatever they are putting in meat today ❓GROSS! [popular 60's word! 😄]
One of my cousins was a AMCU meat cutter Butcher who lost his good paying job and trade in Detroit, early 80's, directly as a result of this BS in the US REGIME~
So do I,but I also remember what the union did to their members in British Columbia when a large at the time non union chain came into the market.assesed the existing members to fund unionization campaign,then signed a deal gutting the existing contract of those members.next negotiations the employer threw that contract on the table,said there's our new contract,turning good mortgage capable jobs full time into wage ghetto jobs part time no benefits for all new employees.of course management cut everyone's hrs that were grandfathered theyre wages till no longer viable .union got thousand plus more dues paying members though. Ufcw scummiest thing I've ever seen from a union .
@@joesutherland225 I’ve never been a union fan, but where they have a monopoly through state legislation, it can make for good wages and benefits. I’m generally against regulation and unionization. At the same time, they have been corporatizing and demonizing meat for forty years or more.
@@paulchristian8271 I'm totally pro union it's really the only way to get decent wages and benefits otherwise capital weilds the stick with no concern for the people doing the work. Keep them only 2 weeks from disaster then they can't fight back unless they team up or more correctly unionize
WOW Trinity such good information. I have not eaten meat for years because the grocery store meat does not taste like "Meat" anymore. I had no idea all of this was happening. Meat Mafia ...UGH
I buy mine from a friend here in Montana...it's the best ever. I do know what you mean about grocery store meat...it smells funny.
I was a butcher and then a market manager for a large grocery chain back in the 1970’s. They brought us boxes of IBP to do a test run on. Without exception, all of the market managers did not like the product and didn’t want it in their market. The product had not hung for 14 days and was a smelly and wet product. Several years later, we were no longer butchering carcass beef. Money always wins.
This is absolutely true. I found this out to be exactly what he said when I lived in Idaho and we raised or I should say I raised a calf. Purposely use for food on our table.
It’s totally flipped and for rancher and Farmers literally impossible to even survive
It's not over till it's over
These guys had better be sitting in the state capitals, making sure laws and regulations aren't passed to screw them over once again. You can be sure the "free marketers" are working on it right now.
Maybe you should be paying closer attention to what you are voting for and who!
@@Rick-np9vz see my other comment.
It is Crony Capitalism, not Free Market Capitalism, that causes this.
Awesome! We buy as much of our food local as we can, and encourage all friends and family to do the same. We buy all our beef and pork local. People are sick and tired of poor quality food.
This sounds like Co-ops 👍 ❤😊
We need this for all communities!
wow. As an agriculture business student. This video should be shown as a golden example to young farmers who want to help their community and keep their family farm!
When I was growing up in north alabama we raised our own hogs and chickens. We slaughtered and processed the meat ourselves. That meat and poultry had a much better taste than anything I've ever had since .even now we buy our beef from our neighbor who raised it and had it processed locally. That way you know what you are getting and it's good for the local economy and the community.
This is such important information.
Really appreciate the insight in to the market!
We (my family) own a small (1500~ acre) production unit (aka: The Farm! LOL!) that we channel through a (very) good cutter, that is not very happily close to us, and retail our own product locally, relying almost entirely on word of mouth to sell our production.
I am immensely glad that we support a small business that provides a VERY good service as a slaughter an cutting house, as we do not yet have the capability locally to support.
But I am also immensely happy that I do not have to make my business decisions, upon deciding just how slowly I starve myself to death, either.
No Farmers, No Food! Perhaps stopping sending any food in to the cities would make that point clearer, to those who decided to support anti-farming initiatives!
A grocery store chain in CT (Stop & Shop) doesn't even cut meat in their meat department anymore. It all comes cryovaced from the packing plant now. Awful.
Which means it's not hanging and aging for bacterial protection. That's why there's so many recalls.
Great listen. Examples of corporate greed and how government accommodates it. Very smart man
Two very smart men right here! Hopefully people wake the hell up and support community and real beef swine and poultry producers by buying direct from producers
I'm going to a local butcher this week. Their website says they get their beef from Iowa.
A local farm, here in Florida, tried starting up a grass fed brand. Their packaging was messed up and air in the package disturbed me. I think they gave it a couple of tries and now they are gone. It looked like sabotage to me. Who the heck would do that?
I listen to a podcast called barn talk on you tube. They have started a mail order producer to consumer deal called Farmer Grade. Actually I work for a grocery outfit that they talked about where there were in store butchers that processed the carcas at store. Wegmans Food Market. About 25 yrs ago they stopped having that done in stores. The butchers were offered the opportunity to get CDL and drive or work elsewhere in distribution. I live in Upstate NY. I have ordered grass fed online from a few places. After listening to this podcast I am going to start to buy from a local meat mrkt in Canaseraga,NY. It is about a 45 minute drive from me but we'll Worth it. Another great you tube podcast is five generations of cowboys. I know nothing about processing meat and have been driving for Wegmans for 25 yrs and drove other places before here.
We started with chickens, then breeding Gloucester Old Spot pigs, as well as green beans, and gourmet garlic. The difference is truly astonishing
Great interview! This guys got it figured out. All the sucess to him! Grow local, sell local, buy local. Eat healthy.
We buy from our local college store - better meat and good prices. I actually worked on an independent local feedlot after high school in Southern California, in 1970. Very few kids ever get that chance anymore, especially in California.
I think all small businesses should bypass big corporations and deal directly with each other’s. That would save our country economy and cattle industry from destruction.
Trinity thanks so much . I hope too go to Kansas and Colorado Springs to see how it all works, this summer . We have a custom exempt plant in Arkansas for 17 yrs and are working on opening a retail market . We raise our own beef.
This has been such a inspiration to me . Keep on keeping on . And God bless.
There's a monopoly in the meatpacking business so maybe you should have local slaughter houses instead of a Monopoly...... Every town with 50,000 people should have a very good slaughterhouse......
This is one important educational video. People have to wake up. Corporations are all about greed!
Fantastic, this man is an inspiration. Thank You
You are indeed blessed to be a blessing. I send encouragement your way; and may God prosper your path because it is HIS.
This video is absolutely a must watch for anybody with any size of cattle operation. Amazing content !
It reminds me of a TA truck stop in Springfield Missouri the owner raises cattle and sells it in his truck stop best ribeye and brisket at the best price I’ve ever had at any truck stop really appreciate it as a truck driver.
Best video ever. We need to remove the government interference that is only helping making our food bad.
Trinity, I shared this on the various social platforms that I use. Thank you for this informative video.
Trinity, another great video! I raise and sell beef locally. I never have complaints about the quality of my beef. It saves customers money and is financially better for me as well. Keep the videos coming. What was the story on the pen of Scottish Highlanders?
What breed of cattle do you raise!
@@petermartens1645 Scottish Highlanders, very docile, much easier to handle, and excellent taste.
The Highlanders belong to a customer we feed and process for. Excellent quality!
This first guy knows exactly what he’s talkin about. I’ve been a butcher/meat cutter my whole life. People who are meat cutters are box beef cutters. They cut meat. Butchers know how to to kill and process an animal from hoof to freezer. I was lucky to do both because in retail grocery stores, you need to make the product look nice to sell and I transferred that over to being a custom butcher. Very few people are left that know how to break an animal and know where all the cuts come from.
Mike Callicrate's story is absolutely inspiring. What truly honest and great man. Does he ship his products I wonder to regular folks I wonder?
Couple things.
I’ve never ever heard of Conagra running processing plants. My experience has always been
1. Cargill
2. Jbs
3. Tyson
4. Marfrig
That being said if you want to combat this your only option is to produce, buy, butcher and sell locally. That’s the only shot you have.
ConAgra, formerly Monfort, was purchased by Swift and then sold to JBS.
So very interesting - hope the trend continues.
After I tasted locally raised chicken from a local butcher shop, I can't eat the crap from the grocery stores.
The problem is chicken from locals are smaller and costs more than grocery stores. It's just not feasible in this horrible economy to feed your family from local butchers.
Thanks Man another great video! What an eye opener, wish I was closer I would patronize that guy. Just ate some of those inedible pork chops, had to laugh because that’s exactly what I thought…..THIS IS TERRIBLE……ate it anyway, worked all day I was hungry 😂
😄. I’ve done that a lot.
Another amazing video Trinity. This one really hits home....kinda makes me want to move to CO so I can live in that town and eat all that yummy beef and pork! Thanks again, have a blessed day.
Iam so sick of big food corporations. People stop buying all this garbage...buy local support your local farmers!
Great video Trinity i always learn something new here thanks .
Resilient and ethical businessman. I hope he can successfully put in the volume to keep operating on a comfortable margin. I suggest him to build a network of foreign customers who seek quality products in case the domestic business cycle gets interrupted for whatever reason. Great episode!
Great video that has described modern Agriculture
The thing about Colorado that make this work so well is one, complementary laws that allow small farmers to sell to the public. Two, this area has a very educated consumer with the disposable income to pay for the much higher quality. As long as you can meet those two requirements. Most states don't or won't allow selling to the local unless things have changed recently.
Open a hamburger stand in a large city. Build a small meat locker on your ranch. Butcher and grind your own cattle. Truck that meat to your hamburger stand and sell a quality burger at a fair price. Keep the hamburger stand basic. One burger sandwich. No frills just good beef. Ok, maybe sell fries too. You'd go through several calves per day easy.
Not legal, unless you get usda inspected facility which isn’t all that easy.
@@jlkkauffman7942 only has to be USDA inspected if crossing state lines to sell. You can in many states just have a state inspected facility as long as the meat isn't crossing state lines. And here in Indiana now the meat inspector doesn't have to inspect each carcass if it's custom butchering. So I can take cattle to the state inspected custom butcher shop and as long as it's coming home to my freezer it doesn't have to be poked by the inspector, if I want to sell my beef to the hamburger stand in town though I have to take it on a day when the inspector is going to be there. All of the custom butcher shops all over the state stay pretty booked up.
@@aroundthefarmcrafts3192 yeah I’m just going off of what I’ve read, I need to look into it because I’m going to start selling grass fed beef off the farm in the future, the problem is I live in Delaware and we have some ridiculous laws here.
It can be done. I started with the restaurant and worked backwards. Finding the cows easy. USDA certified butcher is the bottleneck. Get past that and your smooth sailing. Luckily I have Hmong butchers in the area who got certified.
@@jlkkauffman7942People sell fentanyl illegally.
Trinity, your presentations just keep getting better and better. This one was off the charts, thank you so much for that. BTW, Callicrate Beef pricing is reasonable. 80% ground beef is about a buck more than Costco and on par with the local grocery store chain. About the same for all the rest except the local grocery store chains are almost the same price!😎
Thank you. That is very humbling. I do my best to
Trinity, thank you for this piece. We are currently two years into the same venture in Tennessee.
Neighbors helping neighbors. This is how to build a strong community. God bless you! Keep up the good fight. This is what makes America the best country in the world!
Another GREAT VIDEO!!!
Brilliant descriptive example of how it should be done. This is a prime example of responsible husbandry at work and the flow on in terms of real benefit to people and their communities is enormous.
If only this were the norm, would we then need the big multi national companies dictating the terms?
Thank you so much for informing me about the bad and the good. Ranchers Direct is a great company. This is how it should be.
Great content ❤🇺🇸
In the 80's there were a bunch of small packers in the towns where I grew up in south central PA
GREAT episode, thanks to all involved!
If you ever get a chance to cook (locally produced) beef tongue, you will be blown away by the taste and texture. It's like the best roast you've ever eaten.
This guy and his business is the kind we all need to support and have in each community. Thank you for this very important and informative video
Trinity - You knocked it out of the park? Watched lots of your videos but this lit a fire. Been thinking this for years. Together we can take back our world from the cabal. Keep up the great work.
At 71 years old I’ve watched farmers getting less of the retail dollars. This as in the dairy farming business we started going down hill big time after Reaganomics set in. That let big corporations run over farmers. I went out of business in 2018 and I couldn’t recommend anyone going into farming business. Right now farmers are shopping the world for laborers. The government has created a big problem for food production in America. Those big corporations and families farming corporations are not producing future generations of laborers or management people. It’s all got to come from people that’s never been raised on a farm. Those government leaders hollowing close the borders have no idea how to run anything. This is going to cause big problems down the road. We were out spoken on corruption in dairy businesses and co-ops selling the farmers out. The southeast antitrust case proved that. DOJ didn’t criminally charge anyone for crimes against farmers. Big corporations are controlling USDA and FDA so farmers getting justice is out of question. I’ve been trying to get justice on my cases but USDA is blocking FBI investigations. Fact FBI does not investigate anything in Agriculture unless USDA invites them to. With head positions filled with big corporations people they’re not going to give farmers fair justice on anything. I’ve been feeling like I was farming under a dictator rule agriculture policy. That’s proven out to be right in most cases
I very much admire what he has built there! Wonderful! I can't praise him enough. Sadly though, he is still vulnerable to government fiat nonsense deciding his water isn't good or he's not allowed to use it, or he has to RFID all the animals and lab test them every 6 months for whatever, and so on. . I pray that never happens. Thank you so much for this interview and having him explain how our food supply is being 'corralled' for international corporate profits.
Excellent video! Thank you
Trinity
Absolutely overwhelmed by the knowledge attained from this one video about the beef business and the quality derived.! Please keep it going..!
God Bless..!
WSG,Sr.
aka Sandy
PS: Now no missing link - From cow to market.!
Thanks Trinity! I really appreciate you using your channel to shine light on this.
And while I don’t feel like feedlots are particularly ideal, they’re necessary for large amounts of beef and it sucks when folks can’t make do because of these ridiculously tyrannical megacorporations.
In my case, I like to think of the feedlot as the sacrifice pasture, without the damage of overgrazing. Over the last 10 or so years we have been in a drought. The feedlot gives us a place to go with our cow herd instead of selling them off. It also allows us to increase the herd size for better impact in rotational grazing and is always there if the grass runs out.
Thank you Trinity for this information!! A few months ago you had him or another man talk about this very same PROBLEM! Since then, I've wanted to buy beef from a rancher. Thing is...I'm single and don't need much beef😢
Thank you so much for letting people know ❤❤❤❤❤ HAPPY TRAILS ❤❤❤
This was very interesting.
Thank you for another great video! I loved Mike's energy and passion for what he does. It is also wonderful that the carnivore and ketogenic way's of eating are mentioned in your videos. Slowly but surely the word is getting out there. BTW. Berkshire pasture raised pork is fantastic! :)
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Hi Trinity, thank you for sharing the facts plus exposing the corruption the food industry has. Growing your own foods is becoming the safest way to feed your family. God bless you
I shopped at Ranch Foods Direct all the time!
Amazing store. Bought all my dogs raw food there also. Glad to see them getting interviewed.
I moved, but a great business.
Mike Callicrate is really making the best of a bad situation.
Props to you, Man! Keep up the great job! You inspire me!
Excellent video, very informative! Thanks to you and your guest.
Very interesting & informative video. Keep up the good work. If enough people push back against the “meat mafia”, hopefully things will improve. We can only hope.
Putting in my order
Great video. We watched it twice. And forward it to many friends.
This man has it right.
Thank you, Trinity, for this video.. Now let's get it going here in Montana!!! Enough with these these fools to telling us where and how we are going to get our food!!! Awesome video!!!
Problem small gardener are having all around the country is many hay producers are spraying the hay that are killing independent gardeners field. Cows eat the hay and cows manure are used in the fields and kill broad leaves. Hay producer doesn’t say or tell people that has a few cattle feeding hay.
Great to see this. I hope more farmers will be able to go in this direction.
Carnivore is the healthiest way to eat.
Thank you, very informative, I enjoyed watching this video, subscribed
More youngsters need to take on practical jobs like butchers. People need to buy directly
This video is excellent, thank you so much for doing this story. This has been eye-opening!
Yup I watched this happen in Canada too. From a retail meat cutters viewpoint.
Trinity! This video hits home! I love what you’re doing and the content you bring about these topics!
Keep it up man!! We need more people like you who talk about this and bring out the truth of what really going on! And bring back local markets with healthy sustainable food sources!
Wow this is so great to hear this farmer putting out the truth about saturated fat and oils!!! We live in SC there is no place to buy this meat? Where can we buy beef and pork like this?
Another good interview, just wish you could find some grass-fed, grass-finished producers. Thanks for your hard work and travels!
And non vaccination beef too!
Thank you for your help service and compassion to helping others in the community
Great questions and a well put together video, thanks 🙏
Great video Trinity, wake up the masses. God bless
Eye opening, thoroughly enjoyed your commitment and passion! Making changes from here, forward!! Eagle Mountain, Utah!
Well, I've watched several of your videos and you've earned my subscription.