The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.
Joel SalatinGet in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.
Joel SalatinThe stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.
Joel SalatinYou 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 first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.
Joel SalatinWhat happens is all these things we're seeing โ campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years ago โ that is the industrial paradigm exceeding its efficiency. So these Latin squiggly words that we're learning to say โ bovine spongiform encephalopathy โ are nature's language screaming to us: ENOUGH! And the question then is: what will it take for us to listen? And my contention is that Wall Street is still wearing conquistador mentality and uniforms, and nobody is listening to the pleadings of nature saying: 'Enough.'
Joel Salatin