Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices. — 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 tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in… — 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
