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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The bigger issue here is, to me, that when we can't access our neighbors with food, then farming just dries up. The fact is that all these hurdles that prohibit local food commerce keep what would be millions of dollars circulating in the rural local economy are therefore denied to the local economy. So farmers go out of business and sell to developers.
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We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.
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There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.
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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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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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You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.
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We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.
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The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.
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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.
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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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If you want government food, go to the supermarket and buy government food. But for those who want to have a relationship with their food, and the accountability that inherently comes with voluntarily and informatively opting out of the supermarket to go ask around, smell around, sniff around, look around and opt out of the government food system, they ought to have that right.
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Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
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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.