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Joel Salatin


American
1957
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New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.


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We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.


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I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.


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We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.


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The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.


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Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.


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That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.


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We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.
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Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
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I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.
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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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I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the plug on society.
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We move the cows every day to a new spot which allows the grass time to recuperate and go through its what I call 'the teenage growth spurt.'
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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?'
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If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.
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What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature.
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From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.
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From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.
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A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.
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I didn't really see a way to make a living on the farm. I always loved writing. I was the guy who won the D.A.R. essay contest and things like that, and it was the era of Watergate, and I decided I would be the next Woodward and Bernstein, and then retire to the farm.
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