When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol. Joel Salatin More Quotes by Joel Salatin More Quotes From Joel Salatin There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage. Joel Salatin short anything more chance Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an infrastructural system so nestled in ecology, it's a more beautiful ecology. Joel Salatin more place think beautiful We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence. Joel Salatin better forgiveness building believe Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can't really be true. Joel Salatin chicken true know agriculture Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity. Joel Salatin seed innovation creativity behavior We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat. Joel Salatin eat never government culture Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food. Joel Salatin farmer city think food Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination. Joel Salatin unfortunately farmer pretty rights The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart. Joel Salatin butcher baker than been I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost. Joel Salatin your yourself you kitchen Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks. Joel Salatin rabbit deal chickens meat From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner. Joel Salatin loved gardening garden memories Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market - precursor to today's farmers' markets - and competed in 4-H contests and interscholastic debate. Joel Salatin debate high-school today school Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here. Joel Salatin loving place environmental people We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude. Joel Salatin value make attitude fall No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse. Joel Salatin fast changed enough civilization Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others. Joel Salatin chicken motto respect house
