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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
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You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.
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Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.
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Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.
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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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You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
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Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.
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Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive.
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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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Remember, machines don't forgive.
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A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist upon that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling-type mentality.
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Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.
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Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
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Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really serious about energy and seasonality and bioregionalism.
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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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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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How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve these issues.
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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
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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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