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
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
We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer. — Joel Salatin Cultural 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
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
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 Life 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
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
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
We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work… — Joel Salatin Never 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
When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy! — Joel Salatin Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock. — Joel Salatin Livestock 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 Energy Copy Share Image
Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining… — Joel Salatin Chicken 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 Farms 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
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
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
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
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 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
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. — Joel Salatin Agriculture Copy Share Image
I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment. — Joel Salatin Alignment Copy Share Image