Comments on: Interview with Joel Salatin

By: The Urban Homestead and Regulatory Hurdles | Sustainablog

The Urban Homestead and Regulatory Hurdles | Sustainablog — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:46:15 +0000

[...] back. For the first time in decades they stand side-by-side with rural farmers and self-proclaimed Christian-conservative-libertarian-environmentalist-lunatics – ready to fight for their right to affordable, safe, nutritious food; and the right to grow [...]

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:35:54 +0000

I have seen Joel speak in ‘Food, Inc.’ and stand by his beliefs 100%. I would love to visit the farm in the near future as I live in northern virginia. Thank you for standing up for what is right! God bless you.

By: Open Your Eyes News » Are house bills HR 875 (NAIS) and HR 759 (FDA Globalization Act) still a threat to small farmers and sustenance farmers or are people overreacting?

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:31:21 +0000

[...] US Recall News – Food recalls seem out of control these days. We’re not just seeing a few sporadic cases of food poisoning here and there anymore. I regularly publish recall alerts for hundreds of thousands of pounds of beef and poultry. Here’s a recent one for half-a-million pounds of beef possibly contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg if you factor in the pages upon pages of salmonella recalls. It’s enough to make you scared of eating anything. In fact, it is enough to make us call our legislators and demand action! The problem is – we don’t ask ourselves, or our legislators, if we’re taking the “right” action. What we end up with are misguided attempts at regulation and laws written by academia and corporate agriculture, such as NAIS. Perhaps we need to take a step back and ask ourselves if we’re treating the symptom or the problem. One man who has done just that is Joel Salatin. Read Article [...]

By: Q&A With Joel Salatin - The Simple Living Blog

Q&A With Joel Salatin - The Simple Living Blog — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:24:31 +0000

[...] interview with Joel Salatin was originally published on one of my other websites – US Recall News. The questions center around food safety for that [...]