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" 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. "

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" 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

Think

Special

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "