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It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.

Joel Salatin

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Joel Salatin
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 24
American Farmer
Environmentalist
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The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.
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One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.
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We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.
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The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.
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The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.
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I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.
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If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
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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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The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.
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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
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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.
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Remember, machines don't forgive.
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Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.
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While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.
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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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I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.
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How dare you treat your soil like dirt!
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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
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You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
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