Joel Salatin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
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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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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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Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.
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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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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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My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.
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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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I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
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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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New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.
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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 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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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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If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
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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.