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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.

Joel Salatin

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Joel Salatin
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 24
American Farmer
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