Joel Salatin Quotes & Sayings

“Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.”

“Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.”

“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.”

“The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.”

“We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.”

“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.”

“I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.”

“I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.”

“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?'”

“Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.”