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
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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.
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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.
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Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.
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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
pigs foundation
Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.
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.
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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.
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I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.
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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.
government healthier
We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.
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Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.
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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.