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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

Joel Salatin

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Joel Salatin
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 24
American Farmer
Environmentalist
Farmer
Writer
Farmers
Kitchen
Food

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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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If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.
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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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You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
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How dare you treat your soil like dirt!
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One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.
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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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When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
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It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.
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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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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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Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
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