Best Joel Salatin Quotes
- While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming. All
- You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food. Diarrhoea
- I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture. Based
- If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first. Firsts
- You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how… Ask
- Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if… Alternatives
- The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in… Actually Anti
- Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. Attributes
- I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical. Capitalist
- From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial… Antidote
- Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food. Food
- Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Farmers
- My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control. Control
- We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure. Chicken
- If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear… Appreciate
- It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make more… American
- Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and… Acquire
- Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating. Buy
- Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is… Adoption
- The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is. Chain
- You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit. Buyer
- The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers. Culture
- When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol. Becomes
- How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be,… Acted
- On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy… Affect