Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and… — Joel Salatin Battle Copy Share Image
The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot. — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income. — Joel Salatin Autonomous Copy Share Image
I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I… — Joel Salatin Elementary school Copy Share Image
Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production.… — Joel Salatin Beautiful Copy Share Image
I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as… — Joel Salatin Buying Copy Share Image
It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more… — Joel Salatin Agriculture Copy Share Image
What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down… — Joel Salatin Design Copy Share Image
Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I… — Joel Salatin Environment Copy Share Image
Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But… — Joel Salatin Children Copy Share Image
“The same teen who can't legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]...in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup… — Joel Salatin Farming Copy Share Image
It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse. — Joel Salatin Civilization Copy Share Image
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 Image
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. — Joel Salatin Agriculture Copy Share Image
The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude. — Joel Salatin Attitude Copy Share Image
The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes. — Joel Salatin Costs Copy Share Image
Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena. — Joel Salatin Agriculture Copy Share Image
I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit. — Joel Salatin Buyers Copy Share Image
When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy! — Joel Salatin Cybersecurity 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 Beer Copy Share Image
Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating. — Joel Salatin Food Copy Share Image
An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it… — Joel Salatin Culture Copy Share Image
If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing… — Joel Salatin Bacon Copy Share Image
Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights… — Joel Salatin Farmer Copy Share Image
The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
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