Joel Salatin Quotes

Animal welfare must be a priority, and we need to switch to less industrial production methods.

If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated.

'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

I like animals, I really do, but some animals are just meant to be eaten.

Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.

More pigs less parsons!

We all buy our meat wrapped in plastic because we don't like to think about the animal that died.

While some livestock farms are much better than others, there are none in this country that look like natural ecosystems. Nature has no fences.

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.

We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.

It is hard working with animals, I've got to say.

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten.

When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.

I eat meat, the rarer the better.

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.