Joel Salatin Quotes

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• In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic…
• I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.
• A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up,…
• How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality?…
• Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person…
• What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years ago…
• Remember, machines don't forgive.
• You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility
• You know what the best kind of organic certification would be? Make an unannounced visit to a farm and take a good long look at…
• Don’t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine.
• Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.
• If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.
• Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.
• A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist…
• It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.
• If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately,
• If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.
• Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.
• One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.
• Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.

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