Joel Salatin

Always listen to your customers.

— Joel Salatin

Nature moves towards balance.

— Joel Salatin

How dare you treat your soil like dirt!

— Joel Salatin

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

— Joel Salatin

Earthworms will dance

— Joel Salatin

I don't have money. Monsanto has money.

— Joel Salatin

Everything I want to do is Illegal.

— Joel Salatin

Remember, machines don't forgive.

— Joel Salatin

Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.

— Joel Salatin

I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.

— Joel Salatin

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

— Joel Salatin

I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.

— Joel Salatin

One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

— Joel Salatin

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

— Joel Salatin

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.

— Joel Salatin

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

— Joel Salatin

The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.

— Joel Salatin

Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining…

— Joel Salatin

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

— Joel Salatin

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

— Joel Salatin

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

We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.

— Joel Salatin

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

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

— Joel Salatin

We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure…

— Joel Salatin

That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and…

— Joel Salatin

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

— Joel Salatin

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…

— Joel Salatin

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

— Joel Salatin

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

We must stop this incessant victimhood mentality. Somebody else will not fix things. Somebody else will not make me healthy. Somebody else…

— Joel Salatin

Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do…

— Joel Salatin

I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five:…

— Joel Salatin

Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire…

— Joel Salatin

Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil…

— Joel Salatin

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

— 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…

— Joel Salatin

What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon…

— Joel Salatin

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

In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost,…

— Joel Salatin