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" 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. "

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" 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

Be True

Agriculture

Chicken

" The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation. "

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

" We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude. "

" Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity. "

" We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time. "

" Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food. "

" 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. "

" You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. "

" Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food. "

" I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost. "

" The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics... but where to start is with true ecological function. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart. "

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

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

" A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead. "

" The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry. "

" 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

Movement

Environmental