Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first. — Joel Salatin Cooks Copy Share Image
We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system. — Joel Salatin Food Copy Share Image
If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately, — Joel Salatin Cancer Copy Share Image
Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot. — Joel Salatin Animal 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 Battle Copy Share Image
Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary. — Joel Salatin Farm 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 Appreciate 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
I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off. — Joel Salatin Corn Copy Share Image
While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming. — Joel Salatin Animal 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 Food Copy Share Image
You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy.… — Joel Salatin Bigger 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
We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work… — Joel Salatin Customer Copy Share Image
I didn't really see a way to make a living on the farm. I always loved writing. I was the guy who… — Joel Salatin Essay Copy Share Image
Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market - precursor to today's farmers' markets… — Joel Salatin Debate Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone who wants to join in on farming is diversify. Nature is diversified, and I know you'll always have… — Joel Salatin Advice Copy Share Image
Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please… — Joel Salatin Believe 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
It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does… — Joel Salatin Barns 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
A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the… — Joel Salatin Air Copy Share Image
A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land… — Joel Salatin Air 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
“The same teen who can't legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]...in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup… — Joel Salatin Farming Copy Share Image
How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the… — Joel Salatin Agents Copy Share Image
A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer. — Joel Salatin Cultural Copy Share Image
New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock. — Joel Salatin Australia 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
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure. — Joel Salatin Chicken Copy Share Image
The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less. — Joel Salatin Farmers Copy Share Image
We move the cows every day to a new spot which allows the grass time to recuperate and go through its what… — Joel Salatin Cows Copy Share Image
We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time. — Joel Salatin Death Copy Share Image
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