Joel Salatin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.”

“I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.”

“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.”

“The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.”

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

“You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.”

“Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.”

“My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.”

“'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.”