187 Quotes by Joel Salatin

You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.

It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.

You don’t have roosters with your laying hens. How do they lay eggs?” Dear folks, chickens don’t need roosters to lay eggs. They need roosters to hatch eggs, but not to lay them. Just like women don’t need men to lay eggs; they just need a man to hatch one. A mere century ago, not one in a hundred would have been ignorant of this common agrarian knowledge.

If every kitchen in America had enough chickens attached to it to eat all of the scraps coming out of that kitchen, no egg industry or commerce would be necessary in the whole country.

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

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it’s only in death that life can be regenerated.

Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else’s responsibility until I’m ready to eat it.

I don’t want to sound too mystical or weird but it’s important to know what garlic smells like when it’s cooking, or what eggs look like when they’re cracked out of a shell.