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One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

Joel Salatin

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Joel Salatin
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 24
American Farmer
Environmentalist
Farmer
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Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.
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If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
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How dare you treat your soil like dirt!
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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
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That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology it's an unprecedented abdication of personal responsibility and a ubiquitous benchmark of abnormality.
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The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
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It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.
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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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If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.
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