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title: "3 Chicken Quotes By Joel Salatin"
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> [We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/we-need-to-respect-the-fact-that-cows-are-herbivores-and-that-does/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1f/joel-salatin-3103_chicken_we-need-to-respect-the-fact-that-cows-ar_631247.png)

> [Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/industrial-agriculture-because-it-depends-on-standardization-has/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e54/joel-salatin-3103_agriculture_industrial-agriculture-because-it-depend_1784615.png)

> [Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/our-motto-is-we-respect-and-honour-the-pigness-of-the-pig-and-the/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26a/joel-salatin-3103_animal_our-motto-is-we-respect-and-honour-the-p_2082646.jpg)

## Other authors on Chicken

## More by Joel Salatin

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/read-things-you-re-sure-will-disagree-with-your-current-thinking-if/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/know-you-food-know-your-farmers-and-know-your-kitchen/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/if-we-fail-to-appreciate-the-soul-that-easternism-gives-us-then-what/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [Remember, machines don't forgive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/remember-machines-don-t-forgive/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/instead-of-buying-into-the-global-agenda-which-is-using-food-as-just/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/ecology-should-be-object-lessons-that-the-world-sees-that-explains-in/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/i-m-a-christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic-it-s/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/frankly-any-city-person-who-doesn-t-think-i-deserve-a-white-collar/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/think-of-all-the-mesquite-in-texas-the-pinyon-pines-the-acorns-in/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/our-culture-doesn-t-ask-about-preserving-the-essence-of-pig-it-just/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/we-only-want-autonomous-collaborators-that-are-incentivized-to-make/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/the-wealth-of-any-ecosystem-is-its-perennials-the-primal-herbivore/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/from-zoning-to-labor-to-food-safety-to-insurance-local-food-systems/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/on-a-grander-scale-when-a-society-segregates-itself-the-consequences/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

> [When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/when-faith-in-our-freedom-gives-way-to-fear-of-our-freedom-silencing/)

[Joel Salatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-salatin/)

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