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… — Joel Salatin Animal 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,… — Joel Salatin Appreciate 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 Buying 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 Attributes 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 Capitalist 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 City 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.… — Joel Salatin Beautiful 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… — Joel Salatin Culture Copy Share Image
We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income. — Joel Salatin Autonomous 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… — Joel Salatin Breaths 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 Antidote Copy Share Image
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol. — Joel Salatin Faith 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 Abandon 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 Beer Copy Share Image
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians. — Joel Salatin Am Copy Share Image
We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is… — Joel Salatin Believe 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 About Copy Share Image
What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down… — Joel Salatin Design Copy Share Image
We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
Ours is certainly not an old culture. Yet in recent decades we've used more energy, destroyed more soil, created more pathogenicity (temporarily… — Joel Salatin Bacteria Copy Share Image
Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into… — Joel Salatin Contractor Copy Share Image
