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
jobs best-effort firsts
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
pigs goal noble
You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.
want illegal
Everything I want to do is Illegal.
two feet rooms
If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.
hatred meat vegan
While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.
interesting people advice
My advice to anyone who wants to join in on farming is diversify. Nature is diversified, and I know you'll always have a core thing that you'll really like, but hang stuff around the edges of it. It will make your place more interesting for people to come to, and it's a lot easier to sell something else to an existing customer.
real real-food ifs
If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.
cancer thinking organic-food
If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately,
assets ecstasy sheer
One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.
Earthworms will dance
integrity processed-food notion
The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.
fighting thinking battle
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.
views giving way
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
dirt soil treats
How dare you treat your soil like dirt!