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

The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.

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

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

You 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.

From Joel Salatin

Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

From Joel Salatin

'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.

From Joel Salatin

We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.

From Joel Salatin

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.

From Joel Salatin

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

From Joel Salatin

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