Joel Salatin

Joel Salatin

"You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit."
18 Quotes
"You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit."
Joel Salatin Holy Cows & Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm Friendly Food
"How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?"
Joel Salatin Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
"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
"Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here."
Joel Salatin
"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
"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
"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
"We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise."
Joel Salatin
"There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage."
Joel Salatin
"Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward."
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
"You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people."
Joel Salatin
"The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is."
Joel Salatin
"Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen."
Joel Salatin
"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
"We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time."
Joel Salatin
"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
"We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude."
Joel Salatin
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