Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.
Joel SalatinOurs is certainly not an old culture. Yet in recent decades we've used more energy, destroyed more soil, created more pathogenicity (temporarily stopped some too, for sure), mutated more bacteria, and dumped more toxicity on the planet than all the cultures before us-combined. I love the United States, but I am not blind to the wrongs. I have no desire to live anywhere else, but that doesn't mean I think everything we're doing should be done or can be maintained.
Joel SalatinIf every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.
Joel SalatinIf everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.
Joel SalatinI saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already?
Joel Salatin