Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.
Joel SalatinEven if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.
Joel SalatinWhile vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.
Joel SalatinMen swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without any regards to rumen function. Vegetable growers plow thousands of acres, planting monocrops of annuals in a never-ending tillage routine that totally annihilates carbon wealth. Why? Why are we so enamored of things that destroy carbon and disrespect the animals under our care? Grass. Lowly grass. It just gets no respect. And yet it is the lifeblood of the planet.
Joel Salatin