Top 80 Quotes by Joel Salatin

About Joel Salatin

These are some quotes by American author Joel Salatin Author, who was born in 1957.

Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.

Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.

Joel Salatin

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.

Joel Salatin

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

Joel Salatin

Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

Joel Salatin

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

Joel Salatin

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.

Joel Salatin

Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We know that's not a noble goal.

Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We know that's not a noble goal.

Joel Salatin

God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child's going to drink that water.

Joel Salatin

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

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

Joel Salatin

The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics... but where to start is with true ecological function.

Joel Salatin

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