You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.
Joel SalatinThe average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.
Joel SalatinWhen faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
Joel SalatinA culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist upon that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling-type mentality.
Joel Salatin