Joel Salatin Quotes
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.
Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?
I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.
Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.
Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.
You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.
The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.
If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.
Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.
While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.
We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.
The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.
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.
The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.
I don't want to sound too mystical or weird but it's important to know what garlic smells like when it's cooking, or what eggs look like when they're cracked out of a shell.
If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.
I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.
The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'
Don’t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine.
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
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.
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.