We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately, — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first. — Joel Salatin 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 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 Copy Share Image
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure. — Joel Salatin 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 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 Copy Share Image
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
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 Copy Share Image
Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security… — Joel Salatin 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
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
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
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
We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals… — Joel Salatin 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 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
A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a… — 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 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
Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena. — 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 industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a… — Joel Salatin 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 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
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating. — Joel Salatin 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 global warming… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
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,… — 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 biological, a… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. — Joel Salatin 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
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 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. It's an… — 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 cheaper. We… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income. — 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 recycle oxygen… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
