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You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility — Joel Salatin

The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart. — Joel Salatin

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. — Joel Salatin

Always listen to your customers. — Joel Salatin

If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately, — Joel Salatin

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit. — Joel Salatin

In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns. — Joel Salatin

The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes. — Joel Salatin

Earthworms will dance — Joel Salatin

A risk-free life is a life that's not worth living. — Joel Salatin

Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks. — Joel Salatin

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers. — Joel Salatin

Remember, machines don't forgive. — Joel Salatin

We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer. — Joel Salatin

Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary. — Joel Salatin

I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost. — Joel Salatin

If it doesn't rot, it's not real food. — Joel Salatin

Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food. — Joel Salatin

One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life. — Joel Salatin

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first. — Joel Salatin

We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income. — Joel Salatin

We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders. — Joel Salatin

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it. — Joel Salatin

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse. — Joel Salatin

Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. — Joel Salatin

Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food. — Joel Salatin

I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical. — Joel Salatin

Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig. — Joel Salatin

We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude. — Joel Salatin

We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat. — Joel Salatin

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. — Joel Salatin

I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered. — Joel Salatin

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.' — Joel Salatin

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity. — Joel Salatin

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control. — Joel Salatin

I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians. — Joel Salatin

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees. — Joel Salatin

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it. — Joel Salatin

I don't have money. Monsanto has money. — Joel Salatin

Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health. — Joel Salatin

I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent. — Joel Salatin

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten. — Joel Salatin

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating. — Joel Salatin

Amazingly, we've become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe. — Joel Salatin

When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy! — Joel Salatin

We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure. — Joel Salatin

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time. — Joel Salatin

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is. — Joel Salatin

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system. — Joel Salatin

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system. — Joel Salatin

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. — Joel Salatin

If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet. — Joel Salatin

You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food. — Joel Salatin

How dare you treat your soil like dirt! — Joel Salatin

That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with. — Joel Salatin

Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot. — Joel Salatin

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. — Joel Salatin

I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment. — Joel Salatin

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. — Joel Salatin

I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off. — Joel Salatin

It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons. — Joel Salatin

The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less. — Joel Salatin

Everything I want to do is Illegal. — Joel Salatin

'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means. — Joel Salatin

New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock. — Joel Salatin

The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true. — Joel Salatin

We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models. — Joel Salatin

While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming. — Joel Salatin

Don't complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine. — Joel Salatin

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. — Joel Salatin

Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward. — Joel Salatin

When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol. — Joel Salatin

Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round — Joel Salatin

I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for. — Joel Salatin

Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first. — Joel Salatin

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture. — Joel Salatin

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation. — Joel Salatin