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You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.

Joel Salatin

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Joel Salatin
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 24
American Farmer
Environmentalist
Farmer
Writer
Diarrhoea
Industrial
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Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.
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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.
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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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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
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If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
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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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Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?
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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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One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.
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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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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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How dare you treat your soil like dirt!
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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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It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.
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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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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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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 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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If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.
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