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If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
Joel Salatin
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Joel Salatin
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 24
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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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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
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If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.
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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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Remember, machines don't forgive.
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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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You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
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You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.
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It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.
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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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Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
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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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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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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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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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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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