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Nature moves towards balance.
Remember, machines don't forgive.
Everything I want to do is Illegal.
If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.
How dare you treat your soil like dirt!
I don't have money. Monsanto has money.
You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.
'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility
The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round
Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.
One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.
It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.
New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.
My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.
I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.
Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.
We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.
I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.
If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.
Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.
We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.
When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!
The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.
That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.
Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.
We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.
If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.
Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.
If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.
We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.
We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.
The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.
The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.
I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.
The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.