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" 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. "
― Joel Salatin , Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
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" The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard. "
― Joel Salatin , Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
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" 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. "
― Joel Salatin , Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
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" Tolerably good workmen in any of those mechanic arts are sure to find employ, and to be well paid for their work, there being no restraints preventing strangers from exercising any art they understand, nor any permission necessary. If they are poor, they begin first as servants or journeymen; and if they are sober, industrious, and frugal, they soon become masters, establish themselves in business, marry, raise families, and become respectable citizens. "
― Joel Salatin , Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
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" The United States now has too few farmers to merit counting on the national census form. As a culture, we don’t cook at home. We don’t have a larder. We’re tuned in, plugged in, addicted to electronic gadgetry to the exclusion of a whippoorwill’s midsummer song or a herd of cows lying down contentedly on the leeward side of a slope, indicating a thunderstorm in the offing. Most modern Americans can’t conceive of a time without supermarkets, without refrigeration, stainless steel, plastic, bar codes, potato chips. "
― Joel Salatin , Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World