Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health. — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system. — Joel Salatin Food Copy Share Image
Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock. — Joel Salatin Australia 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
We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat. — Joel Salatin Culture 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
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system. — Joel Salatin Eating 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 Animal Copy Share Image
The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart. — Joel Salatin 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
In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns. — Joel Salatin Business Copy Share Image
That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and… — Joel Salatin Abdication Copy Share Image
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized,… — Joel Salatin 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
Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please… — Joel Salatin 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 Customer Copy Share Image
Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market - precursor to today's farmers' markets… — Joel Salatin Debate 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 Copy Share Image
We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon… — Joel Salatin Bovine Copy Share Image
How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
“The same teen who can't legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]...in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup… — Joel Salatin Farming Copy Share Image
Ours is certainly not an old culture. Yet in recent decades we've used more energy, destroyed more soil, created more pathogenicity (temporarily… — Joel Salatin Bacteria 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 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 Copy Share Image
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason… — Joel Salatin Animal 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
We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately, — Joel Salatin Cancer Copy Share Image
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food. — Joel Salatin City Copy Share Image
Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity. — Joel Salatin Behavior Copy Share Image
We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models. — Joel Salatin 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 Copy Share Image
Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
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