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...
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CountryUnited States of America
belongs buying food global industrial instead living smaller using view
Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a living thing, that belongs in smaller communities.
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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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God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child's going to drink that water.
direct disease food government policy results
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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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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An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.
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You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.
cultural idiot mentality
We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.
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We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.
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We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.
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We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.
We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.
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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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We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.