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
ecology environmental nurturing
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.
bombarded chicken depends eggs industrial message pork though
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.
confining honour house means respect
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.
kitchen tvs turns
Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.
kitchen farmers knows
Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
chains forks raw-food
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
integrity processed-food notion
The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.
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,
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.
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.
practice organization hype
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.
favors corn feds
I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.
courts protected suggesting
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.