American - Author | 1957 -
We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.
Joel Salatin
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No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
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We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.
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New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.
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Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a living thing, that belongs in smaller communities.
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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.
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Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We know that's not a noble goal.
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That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
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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.
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We move the cows every day to a new spot which allows the grass time to recuperate and go through its what I call 'the teenage growth spurt.'
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We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.
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I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.
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