Joel Salatin Quotes

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• This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal.

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  Food, Journey, Legacy

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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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  Children, Food, World

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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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  Home, Garden, Long Ago

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• We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse - we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse.

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  Philosophy, Mcdonalds, Law

  "No Bar Code" by Michael Pollan, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2006.

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• I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Important

  "Food, Inc". Documentary, www.imdb.com. July 31, 2009.

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• Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

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  People, House, Odd

  "No Bar Code" by Michael Pollan, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2006.

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

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  Kitchen, Tvs, Turns

  "Joel Salatin: Folks, This Ain’t Normal". Interview with Kristin Wartman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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

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  Kitchen, Farmers, Knows

  "Joel Salatin: Folks, This Ain’t Normal". Interview with Kristin Wartman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.

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  Mountain, Puff, Safe

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• If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.

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  Cancer, Thinking, Organic Food

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• Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are not dependent on next week's farmers' market or the electronic cashiers at the supermarket.

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  Government, Next Week, Knowing

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

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  Forks, Chains, Raw Food

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• One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

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  Assets, Ecstasy, Farms

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• If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.

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  Real, Real Food, Ifs

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• A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist upon that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling-type mentality.

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  Pigs, Views, Other Cultures

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• If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

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  May, Want, Suits

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• Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire light, a beacon to show the world that our wealth need not show the way to more rapid destruction, but can be leveraged to heal more acres, more backyards, more communities faster than any civilization on the right path has ever done it.

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  Country, Humble, Civilization

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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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  Responsibility, Average, Should

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• While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.

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  Hatred, Meat, Vegan

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• A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscape. A farm is virtually a living organism. The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. And that is why the average farmer is now 60 years old. Serfdom just doesn't attract the best and brightest.

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  Philosophy, Heart, Passion

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• You know what the best kind of organic certification would be? Make an unannounced visit to a farm and take a good long look at the farmer’s bookshelf. Because what you’re feeding your emotions and thoughts is what this is really all about. The way I produce a chicken is an extension of my worldview. You can learn more about that by seeing what’s sitting on my bookshelf than having me fill out a whole bunch of forms.

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  Long, Would Be, Looks

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• If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

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  Animal, Knees, Joints

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• How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?

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  Mother, Fire, People

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• Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive.

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  Believe, Thinking, Important

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• We must stop this incessant victimhood mentality.
  Somebody else will not fix things.
  Somebody else will not make me healthy.
  Somebody else will not make me happy.
  These things are my responsibility.
  Not the neighbor’s,
  not the government’s,
  not the church or the civic club.

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  Responsibility, Government, Healthy

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