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title: "2 Cultures Quotes By Joel Salatin"
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> [Ours is certainly not an old culture. Yet in recent decades we've used more energy, destroyed more soil, created more pathogenicity (temporarily stopped some too, for sure), mutated more bacteria, and dumped more toxicity on the planet than all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/ours-is-certainly-not-an-old-culture-yet-in-recent-decades-we-ve-used/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/568/joel-salatin-3103_bacteria_ours-is-certainly-not-an-old-culture-yet_421541.jpg)

> [A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist upon that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-salatin/a-culture-that-just-views-a-pig-as-a-pile-of-protoplasmic-inanimate/)

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

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## 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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