American - Author | 1957 -
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.
Joel Salatin
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You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.
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Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
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My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.
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Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.
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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
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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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If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.
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An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.
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Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.
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I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
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In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.
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