Quotes from Joel Salatin

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

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

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.

We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.

There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'

I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the plug on society.

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

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

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.

We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.

New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.

From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.

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

We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.

I don't have money. Monsanto has money.

Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.

Nature moves towards balance.

An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.

Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can't really be true.