Joel Salatin Quotes
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No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
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I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.
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New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.
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Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
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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 am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.
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There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.
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I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.
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We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.
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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
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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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I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
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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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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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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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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.
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We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.
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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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My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.
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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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We move the cows every day to a new spot which allows the grass time to recuperate and go through its what I call 'the teenage growth spurt.'
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We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.
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Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.