I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Don’t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone who wants to join in on farming is diversify. Nature is diversified, and I know you'll always have… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard global warming… — Joel Salatin Copy Share
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented,… — Joel Salatin Copy Share
Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a… — Joel Salatin Copy Share
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. — Joel Salatin Copy Share
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical. — Joel Salatin Copy Share
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food. — Joel Salatin Copy Share
Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an… — Joel Salatin Copy Share
Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We… — Joel Salatin Copy Share
We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income. — Joel Salatin Copy Share
The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen… — Joel Salatin Copy Share
From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police… — Joel Salatin Copy Share
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's… — Joel Salatin Copy Share
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol. — Joel Salatin Copy Share
