Joel Salatin Quotes

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

The loss of land for food security has to be measured not only in quantitative terms but also in respect of land use.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.

I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.

The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent.

Look at our farmers' markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation, but that we have lost touch with. Bringing all these back helps us connect to our roots, our communities and helps us feed America the proper way.

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It's that simple.

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got there and developed these extensive relationships with the farmers, I realized that we're basically made of corn.

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.

Maybe we need to re-engage our smart, energetic youth around the world to be farmers and find fresh, green technologies that will feed the world more fresh greens.

If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume.

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air—it is a right proclaimed by their very existence.

No man should be allowed to own any land he does not use.

Land is not merely soil.

There is land in Colombia, fortunately, for everybody. We don't have to expropriate land from people who are cultivating that land legally.

We must continue as in millennia past, nourishing the future as we feed ourselves and, each year, plant only the very best of what we have collectively engineered.

If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed ourselves, while changing the way the remaining land is farmed. Instead, governments almost everywhere pour public money into planetary destruction.