JSJoel Salatin

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Joel Salatin

Born 1957 AD; death year unknown

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1957 AD

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

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02c. 1957 AD

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

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03c. 1957 AD

Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.

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04c. 1957 AD

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.

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05c. 1957 AD

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.

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06c. 1957 AD

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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07c. 1957 AD

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.

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08c. 1957 AD

From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.

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09c. 1957 AD

Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.

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10c. 1957 AD

It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.

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