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
If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from… — Joel Salatin Farm Copy Share Image
In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns. — Joel Salatin Business Copy Share Image
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. — Joel Salatin Civilization 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
Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity. — Joel Salatin Behavior Copy Share Image
We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models. — Joel Salatin Feed Copy Share Image
The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing… — Joel Salatin Bacon 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
How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for… — Joel Salatin Climate Copy Share Image
Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken,… — Joel Salatin Agriculture 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
There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system… — Joel Salatin Anything Copy Share Image
Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But… — Joel Salatin Children Copy Share Image
The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system -… — Joel Salatin Agriculture Copy Share Image
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to… — Joel Salatin Create Copy Share Image
Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without… — Joel Salatin Abuse Copy Share Image
If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet. — Joel Salatin Crutches Copy Share Image
I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the… — Joel Salatin Grow Copy Share Image
The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it… — Joel Salatin Culture Copy Share Image
I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians. — Joel Salatin Am Copy Share Image
An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the… — Joel Salatin Beef Copy Share Image
Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating. — Joel Salatin Food Copy Share Image
You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit. — Joel Salatin Buyers 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
When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy! — Joel Salatin Cybersecurity 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
That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with. — Joel Salatin About Copy Share Image
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward. — Joel Salatin Biggest fear Copy Share Image
The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true. — Joel Salatin Expensive Copy Share Image
Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks -… — Joel Salatin Beef Copy Share Image
Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe. — Joel Salatin Cocoa 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
Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights… — Joel Salatin Farmer Copy Share Image
The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse. — Joel Salatin Civilization Copy Share Image
It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers. — Joel Salatin Been Copy Share Image
I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I… — Joel Salatin Elementary school Copy Share Image
Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any… — Joel Salatin Building Copy Share Image
I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very… — Joel Salatin Cook Copy Share Image
