I’m incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for. Joel Salatin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What we’re looking at is God’s design, nature’s template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature. Joel Salatin Read Quote
It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers. Joel Salatin Read Quote
I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians. Joel Salatin Read Quote
Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig. Joel Salatin Read Quote
We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure. Joel Salatin Read Quote
The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less. Joel Salatin Read Quote
Our biggest fear is that ‘Food, Inc.’ will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward. Joel Salatin Read Quote
