{"author":"Joel Salatin","author_id":"Joel+Salatin","total_quotes":34,"quotes":[{"text":"We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.","author":"Joel Salatin","tags":["time","new things","think "],"id":50643,"author_id":"Joel+Salatin"},{"text":"We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise.","author":"Joel Salatin","tags":["sunshine","control","exercise "],"id":65019,"author_id":"Joel+Salatin"},{"text":"In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic for season extension. It parks many of the trucks [for cross-country produce transportation]. With the trucks parked, greenhouses, tall tunnels, and more seasonal, localized eating, can we feed ourselves? We still have to answer that burning question.","author":"Joel Salatin","tags":["food","food-production","petroleum"],"id":72425,"author_id":"Joel+Salatin"},{"text":"I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already?","author":"Joel Salatin","tags":["men","time","video-games"],"id":73738,"author_id":"Joel+Salatin"},{"text":"A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscape. A farm is virtually a living organism. The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. And that is why the average farmer is now 60 years old. Serfdom just doesn't attract the best and brightest.","author":"Joel Salatin","tags":["farming","philosophy"],"id":93720,"author_id":"Joel+Salatin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Joel Salatin","tags":["conscience","food","knowledge"],"id":117759,"author_id":"Joel+Salatin"},{"text":"We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.","author":"Joel Salatin","tags":["value","fall","empire "],"id":150313,"author_id":"Joel+Salatin"},{"text":"You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.","author":"Joel Salatin","tags":["food","future"],"id":181461,"author_id":"Joel+Salatin"},{"text":"Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.","author":"Joel Salatin","tags":["motto","chicken","house "],"id":183837,"author_id":"Joel+Salatin"},{"text":"Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.","author":"Joel Salatin","tags":["city","think","salary "],"id":186064,"author_id":"Joel+Salatin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}