The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes. — Joel Salatin Costs Copy Share Image
Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena. — Joel Salatin Agriculture Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for. — Joel Salatin About Copy Share Image
We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude. — Joel Salatin Attitude Copy Share Image
The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation. — Joel Salatin Chickens 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
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. — Joel Salatin Agriculture Copy Share Image
God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals… — Joel Salatin Children 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… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals… — Joel Salatin Animals Copy Share Image
We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we… — Joel Salatin Abuse Copy Share Image
From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and… — Joel Salatin Farm 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
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
Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I… — Joel Salatin Environment 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
It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more… — Joel Salatin Agriculture 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
I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since… — Joel Salatin Been Copy Share Image
