When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol. — Joel Salatin Faith Copy Share Image
Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks -… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward. — Joel Salatin Biggest fear Copy Share Image
That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented… — 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 Climate Copy Share Image
Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken,… — Joel Salatin Agriculture Copy Share Image
From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we… — Joel Salatin Abuse Copy Share Image
We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals… — Joel Salatin Animals 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… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system -… — Joel Salatin Agriculture Copy Share Image
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals… — Joel Salatin Children Copy Share Image
