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Joel Salatin

Joel Salatin

American Author

Born: 1957

Because Farm Food People Think You

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

Food You People Soil Healthy Civilization Without Healthy People Junk Junk Food

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

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

Environmental Me Has-Been Instead Environmental Movement Been Encouraged Movement Being Really

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

Financial Stress Older More Getting Produce Farmers Less Keep Margins

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

Money Monsanto

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

Forgiveness Better Building Farm Believe More Drought Ecosystem Does Handle Disease Forgiving Mean Should Flood

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

Food System More Raw Between Fresher Fork Transparent Chain

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

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

Rights Lobby Pretty Contamination Protected Courts Unfortunately Much Farmer Suggesting

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

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

Today School Debate Local Market Markets High High School Throughout Had Contests Curb Eggs Precursor Stand Farmers

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

Great Bacon Ministry Pig Ham Just Us Chops Pork

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

Food Fear Will Our Move Heavy-Handed Biggest Regulations Forward

I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing. Joel Salatin

You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food. Joel Salatin

Food You Eat Industrial Get Wanna

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. Joel Salatin

Food Hype Single Research Programs Local Virtually Despite About Indigenous Adoption Impediment Networking Practices Green Biggest Organizations Wider

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

People Organic Think Mean Means

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

Soul Thought Fragmented Thought Process Gives Fail Counts Cleverness Disconnected Linear Western Egocentric Process Then Us Appreciate

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