American - Author | 1957 -
Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.
Joel Salatin
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We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.
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The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
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Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
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I don't have money. Monsanto has money.
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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.
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I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.
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I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.
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