Joel Salatin Quotes: 6

• When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.

  Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front

• The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

  Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front

• This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal.

  Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

• On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.

  Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front

• Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive.

  Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

• A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable. The farmhouse, the concrete, the machinery, and outbuildings become relics of a bygone vibrancy when another family farm moves to the city financial centers for relief.

  Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front