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“The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'”

— Joel Salatin

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I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.

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Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

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The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

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I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

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

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I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

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