Joel Salatin Quotes
Top 77 wise famous quotes and sayings by Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Joel Salatin on Wise Famous Quotes.
The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.
You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.
Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.
The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.
I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.
We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.
Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.
We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.
I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.
I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.
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.'
Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.
If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.
The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.
Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.
Amazingly, we've become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.
The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.
If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.
Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.
The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.
We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.
While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.
Don't complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine.
I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the plug on society.
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.