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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.

Joel Salatin

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Joel Salatin
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 24
American Farmer
Environmentalist
Farmer
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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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It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.
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When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
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Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.
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