The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true. — Joel Salatin Expensive 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 Economics Copy Share Image
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 Answers Copy Share Image
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 Acres Copy Share Image
Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first. — Joel Salatin Cooks 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
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
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 Bulls 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
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
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
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
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 Disagree 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
We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat. — Joel Salatin Culture Copy Share Image
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 Building 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 Community 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 Electricity Copy Share Image
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 Animal 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
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 Age 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
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