Joel Salatin Quotes
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Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market - precursor to today's farmers' markets - and competed in 4-H contests and interscholastic debate.
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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 death that life can be regenerated.
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Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination.
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Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can't really be true.
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Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.
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An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.
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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
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My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.
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Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.
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What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature.
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The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'
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I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.
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I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.
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I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.
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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 the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.
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The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.
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Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.
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Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.
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We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.
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I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.
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If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
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I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.