002 Joel Salatin - This Ain't Normal... But It Could Be

The average person is still under this delusion that food should be someone else's responsibility until they're actually ready to eat it.

"The magical, marvellous thing about food on our plate is the sustenance we absorb has a story to tell, it has a journey, leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy…. to eat with reckless abandon, without conscience and without knowledge, well folks, this ain't normal." And that quote is from Joel Salatin's book, "Folks, This Ain't Normal."

Joel is arguably the world's most famous farmer, the farm is called Polyface Farm and he goes around the world lecturing to people about an alternative way to farming.

We hear a lot about the carbon economy, and climate change, and carbon in the atmosphere. And a lot of people actually do go vegan, for ethical reasons about cruelty to animals and environmental stress, water use and the resources that go into factory farming. But a lot of people don't realize that a big part of the answer to these problems: carbon sequestration, climate change, ethical growing of food and reducing environmental stress actually occur on the farm. 

If you eat food, you have an important part to play for your own health and the health of the planet. The two are inseparable.