Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin
Joel F. Salatinis an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain't Normal; You Can Farm; and Salad Bar Beef...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
running country tunnels
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.
assets ecstasy sheer
One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.
wrestling animal important
We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.
responsibility technology california
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.
dirt soil treats
How dare you treat your soil like dirt!
views giving way
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
fighting thinking battle
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.
pigs foundation
Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.
cancer thinking organic-food
If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately,
real real-food ifs
If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.
hatred meat vegan
While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.
want illegal
Everything I want to do is Illegal.
jobs best-effort firsts
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
pigs goal noble
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.