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Food Quotes by Joel Salatin

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Salatin tells us to know the food on our plate, the farmer who grew it, and the kitchen where it’s cooked. He says food is alive, has a story and a footprint, and a short farm‑to‑fork chain keeps it fresh and clear. He also notes that many rules block local growers, making it hard to get high‑quality local food.

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It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.

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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

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The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

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Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

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If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.

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You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.

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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.

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Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the…

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I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and…

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The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

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We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.

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If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their…

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Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.

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You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

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Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.

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There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology…

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Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or…

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I don't want to sound too mystical or weird but it's important to know what garlic smells like when it's cooking, or…

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The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a…

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We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals…

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A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to…

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There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system…

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From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented…

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The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all…

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A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a…

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Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security…

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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.

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The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

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Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.

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We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

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Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.

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The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.

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You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

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Don’t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine.

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Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

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Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.

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The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.

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Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.

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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any…

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I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very…

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