It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons. — Joel Salatin Culture Copy Share Image
My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control. — Joel Salatin Control Copy Share Image
We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately, — Joel Salatin Cancer Copy Share Image
New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock. — Joel Salatin Australia 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 Civilization Copy Share Image
In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns. — Joel Salatin Business Copy Share Image
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 City Copy Share Image
If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from… — 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
We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time. — Joel Salatin Death Copy Share Image
If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat. — Joel Salatin Culture Copy Share Image
Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure… — Joel Salatin Clean air 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 Abdication Copy Share Image
You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy.… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We must stop this incessant victimhood mentality. Somebody else will not fix things. Somebody else will not make me healthy. Somebody else… — Joel Salatin Church Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
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… — Joel Salatin Breaths Copy Share Image
A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without… — Joel Salatin Abuse Copy Share Image
Ours is certainly not an old culture. Yet in recent decades we've used more energy, destroyed more soil, created more pathogenicity (temporarily… — Joel Salatin Bacteria Copy Share Image
A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason… — Joel Salatin Animal 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
Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system. — Joel Salatin Food Copy Share Image
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system. — Joel Salatin Eating Copy Share Image
Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and… — Joel Salatin Culture Copy Share Image
I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
