We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time. — Joel Salatin Death Copy Share Image
We move the cows every day to a new spot which allows the grass time to recuperate and go through its what… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less. — Joel Salatin Farmers Copy Share Image
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. — Joel Salatin 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 Animal Copy Share Image
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is. — Joel Salatin Food Copy Share Image
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol. — Joel Salatin Faith Copy Share Image
We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we… — Joel Salatin Abuse Copy Share Image
From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and… — Joel Salatin 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
Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals… — Joel Salatin Children 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 Agriculture 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
A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights… — Joel Salatin Farmer Copy Share Image
The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks -… — Joel Salatin 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 Copy Share Image
That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward. — Joel Salatin Biggest fear Copy Share Image
The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system… — Joel Salatin Animal Copy Share Image
You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit. — Joel Salatin Buyers Copy Share Image
Don’t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine. — Joel Salatin Beer Copy Share Image
When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy! — Joel Salatin Cybersecurity 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
I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians. — Joel Salatin 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
An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the… — Joel Salatin 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
If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical. — Joel Salatin 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
The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes. — Joel Salatin Costs Copy Share Image
Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena. — Joel Salatin Agriculture Copy Share Image
