City Quote by Joel Salatin

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 global warming…

— Joel Salatin

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

— Joel Salatin

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,…

— Joel Salatin

Remember, machines don't forgive.

— Joel Salatin

Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a…

— Joel Salatin

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

— Joel Salatin

I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

— Joel Salatin

Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an…

— Joel Salatin

Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We…

— Joel Salatin

We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.

— Joel Salatin

The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen…

— Joel Salatin

From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police…

— Joel Salatin