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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
Joel Salatin Quotes: 'Organic' doesn't mean what people
Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Oh, my goodness, when we
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
Joel Salatin Quotes: When faith in our freedom
My advice to anyone who wants to join in on farming is diversify. Nature is diversified, and I know you'll always have a core thing that you'll really like, but hang stuff around the edges of it. It will make your place more interesting for people to come to, and it's a lot easier to sell something else to an existing customer.
Joel Salatin Quotes: My advice to anyone who
The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.
Joel Salatin Quotes: The cows shorten the grass,
From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.
Joel Salatin Quotes: From zoning to labor to
Ours is certainly not an old culture. Yet in recent decades we've used more energy, destroyed more soil, created more pathogenicity (temporarily stopped some too, for sure), mutated more bacteria, and dumped more toxicity on the planet than all the cultures before us-combined. I love the United States, but I am not blind to the wrongs. I have no desire to live anywhere else, but that doesn't mean I think everything we're doing should be done or can be maintained.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Ours is certainly not an
It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make more sense than growing soil? Isn't that more important than tractors, trucks, silos, barns, county fairs and country music? Of course it is. And yet to the lion's share of American farmers, the very notion of growing soil is just plain silly.
Joel Salatin Quotes: It's as if the whole
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 Quotes: We should be rolling in
I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
Joel Salatin Quotes: I need people - theatrics
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Ecology should be object lessons
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 Quotes: Our main deal is pastured
You don't have roosters with your laying hens. How do they lay eggs?" Dear folks, chickens don't need roosters to lay eggs. They need roosters to hatch eggs, but not to lay them. Just like women don't need men to lay eggs; they just need a man to hatch one. A mere century ago, not one in a hundred would have been ignorant of this common agrarian knowledge.
Joel Salatin Quotes: You don't have roosters with
Everything I want to do is Illegal.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Everything I want to do
The sheer mystery and majesty of heritage wisdom, contained in each cell, each mitochondria, instills in the farmer who respects and honors the pigness of the pig a daily emotional high. The satisfaction of being nature's nurturer always trumps the short-lived adrenaline high of being nature's conqueror. Such an attitude offers spiritual ascendance over physical domination, which never really happens anyway. And that's why the industrial farmer, for all the smoke and noise and horsepower, never feels in control, but always dreads being drowned by the nature he thinks he's controlling.
Joel Salatin Quotes: The sheer mystery and majesty
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.
Joel Salatin Quotes: On a grander scale, when
That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
Joel Salatin Quotes: That's the joke about confinement
Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an infrastructural system so nestled in ecology, it's a more beautiful ecology.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Think of all the mesquite
How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve these issues.
Joel Salatin Quotes: How many of us lobby
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Land degradation did not start
We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.
Joel Salatin Quotes: We're scared to death to
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 Quotes: Frankly, any city person who
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 Quotes: The average person is still
A risk-free life is a life that's not worth living.
Joel Salatin Quotes: A risk-free life is a
It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.
Joel Salatin Quotes: It's a foolish culture that
When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!
Joel Salatin Quotes: When government gets between my
Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Nobody trusts the industrial food
Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a living thing, that belongs in smaller communities.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Instead of buying into the
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?'
Joel Salatin Quotes: The industrial food system is
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 Quotes: I see myself today as
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.
Joel Salatin Quotes: The first supermarket supposedly appeared
Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?
Joel Salatin Quotes: Don't you find it odd
That many if not most people ... who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology; it's an unprecedented abdication of personal responsibility and a ubiquitous benchmark of abnormality.
Joel Salatin Quotes: That many if not most
Always listen to your customers.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Always listen to your customers.
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 Quotes: While vegans and meat-eaters disagree,
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
Joel Salatin Quotes: The shorter the chain between
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 Quotes: Amazingly, we've become a culture
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.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Our motto is we respect
The same teen who can't legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV] ... in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup on a crowded urban expressway. By denying these [farm work] opportunities to bring value to their own lives and the community around them, we've relegated our young adults to teenage foolishness. Then as a culture we walk around shaking our heads in bewilderment at these young people with retarded maturity. Never in life do people have as much energy as in their teens, and to criminalize leveraging it is certainly one of our nation's greatest resource blunders.
Joel Salatin Quotes: The same teen who can't
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 Quotes: Don't complain about being unable
Earthworms will dance
Joel Salatin Quotes: Earthworms will dance
Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Get in your kitchens, buy
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
Joel Salatin Quotes: If a job is worth
The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
Joel Salatin Quotes: The farmers are older; they
Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Respecting and honoring the pigness
Most of the earth's land is not conducive to arable cropping. Only a tiny percentage is good enough for that. Grasslands are literally the lungs of the earth, and restoring them with animals is not only necessary, but it's the most efficacious way to restore water cycles and the carbon cycle. Right now, nothing else comes close to remediating broken ecological systems as quickly or completely as restoring large herds of grazing animals through holistic, or long-term, management.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Most of the earth's land
A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first two boys off the bus asked, "Where is the salsa tree?" They thought they could go pick salsa, like apples and peaches. Oh my. What do they put on SAT tests to measure this? Does anybody care? How little can a person know about food and still make educated decisions about it? Is this knowledge going to change before they enter the voting booth? Now that's a scary thought.
Joel Salatin Quotes: A farmer friend of mine
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.
Joel Salatin Quotes: What we're looking at is
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 Quotes: If every American for one
God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child's going to drink that water.
Joel Salatin Quotes: God doesn't just miraculously and
I don't want to sound too mystical or weird but it's important to know what garlic smells like when it's cooking, or what eggs look like when they're cracked out of a shell.
Joel Salatin Quotes: I don't want to sound
Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can't really be true.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Industrial agriculture, because it depends
You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.
Joel Salatin Quotes: You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat
In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic for season extension. It parks many of the trucks [for cross-country produce transportation]. With the trucks parked, greenhouses, tall tunnels, and more seasonal, localized eating, can we feed ourselves? We still have to answer that burning question.
Joel Salatin Quotes: In my opinion, if there
Today's orthodoxy thrives on someone else doing the cooking. The single-service packet from the supermarket has replaced the sit-down home-cooked meal as the most common food choice. Easy foodism disengages people from the process and creates a level of food illiteracy unthinkable just a few short decades ago.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Today's orthodoxy thrives on someone
A Virginia subdivision now has restricted deed covenants against 'farming and other nuisances'. Can you imagine? In our culture, we are actually labeling farming as a nuisance. What have we done to ourselves, that the oldest and noblest vocation on earth, the educated agrarian proletariat envisioned by Thomas Jefferson, has been reduced to nothing more than a nuisance?
Joel Salatin Quotes: A Virginia subdivision now has
Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really serious about energy and seasonality and bioregionalism.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Just because we can ship
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.
Joel Salatin Quotes: I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a
We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.
Joel Salatin Quotes: We can't begin to feed
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.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Throughout high school, I peddled
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 Quotes: I would suggest that if
The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.
Joel Salatin Quotes: The truth is, everything is
If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.
Joel Salatin Quotes: If everybody walks into the
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.
Joel Salatin Quotes: The cycle of life is
Remember, machines don't forgive.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Remember, machines don't forgive.
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.
Joel Salatin Quotes: If we fail to appreciate
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 Quotes: Choose to patronise your local
We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.
Joel Salatin Quotes: We believe that the farm
A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm
it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscape. A farm is virtually a living organism. The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. And that is why the average farmer is now 60 years old. Serfdom just doesn't attract the best and brightest.
Joel Salatin Quotes: A farm includes the passion
Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We know that's not a noble goal.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Our culture doesn't ask about
It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment ... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.
Joel Salatin Quotes: It's very common to implement
We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse
we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse.
Joel Salatin Quotes: We don't need a law
Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and harder every year as the chemicals burn out the organic matter, which gives the soil its sponginess. One pound of organic matter holds four pounds of water. The best drought protection any farmer can acquire is more soil organic matter.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Since chemical fertilizer burns out
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.
Joel Salatin Quotes: We will never sell or
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Even if you don't eat
Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Outrageous behavior, also known as
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 Quotes: The stronger a culture, the
The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.
Joel Salatin Quotes: The notion that processed food
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 Quotes: We move the cows every
You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility
Joel Salatin Quotes: You can't chemical your way
It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.
Joel Salatin Quotes: It really disturbs me that
Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are not dependent on next week's farmers' market or the electronic cashiers at the supermarket.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Food security is not in
You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented ... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.
Joel Salatin Quotes: You know, in our culture
Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Too often, parents whose children
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 Quotes: The pig is not just
From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.
Joel Salatin Quotes: From my earliest memories, I
New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.
Joel Salatin Quotes: New Zealand has incredible global
We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.
Joel Salatin Quotes: We would be a much
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 Quotes: I always said if I
We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.
Joel Salatin Quotes: We can move water easily
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Our biggest fear is that
I see it routinely when I get asked to speak at conferences. I'm supposed to come cheap because, after all, I'm just a farmer. If you're smart and capable, you become a doctor, engineer, lawyer, computer technician --- anything white collar. For goodness' sake, don't wear a blue collar. That makes your mother and me a failure and our friends will wonder about our family.
Joel Salatin Quotes: I see it routinely when
Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Nobody walks well first, nobody
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.
Joel Salatin Quotes: You can't have a healthy
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 Quotes: I inherited Mom's verbal skills,
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 Quotes: Our animals don't do drugs.
Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination.
Joel Salatin Quotes: Unfortunately in the U.S., the
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