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
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
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In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.
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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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I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.
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I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
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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.
I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.
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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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Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.
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Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.
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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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We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.
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Always listen to your customers.
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Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.
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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.