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 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 a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.
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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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Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.
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Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
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I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.
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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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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
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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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I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
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My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.
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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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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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Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.
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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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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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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.
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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, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.
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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.