The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is. - Joel Salatin
How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve these issues. - Joel Salatin
We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders. - Joel Salatin
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol. - Joel Salatin
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. - 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 need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure. - Joel Salatin
I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture. - Joel Salatin
The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers. - Joel Salatin
I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off. - Joel Salatin
We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure. - Joel Salatin
The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation. - Joel Salatin
The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart. - Joel Salatin
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse. - Joel Salatin
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