joel salatin

Joel Salatin joins us to discuss his groundbreaking book The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer. Joel will describe how he is shunned by industrial farmers, vilified by corporate agri-business, and stalked by food police as being a lunatic. But Joel enjoys the sheer ecstasy of being surrounded by happy, frolicking animals, dancing earthworms, and appreciative customers. His family's farm, Polyface, Inc. (Farm of Many Faces) is nestled in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and has achieved iconic status by featuring prominently in the Grammy nominated documentary, Food Inc., as well as the NYT best-seller Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. Joel will describe the breadth and depth of the paradigm differences between healing and exploitative food systems. If you want to understand more about our broken food system, and what is being done to fix it, then this show is a must.

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by Joel Salatin, a farmer, lecturer, and author who raises livestock using holistic management methods of animal husbandry, free of harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct-marketing to consumers and restaurants.

Salatin's latest book is THE MARVELOUS PIGNESS OF PIGS: Nurturing and Caring for All God's Creation, which tackles the tension between environmental and faith-based communities.

Joel Salatin, featured speaker at the upcoming Longevity Now® Conference, continues discussing the fundamental issues with conventional farming practices that are destroying our planet and our health in Part 2 of this interview.

Joel Salatin, featured speaker at the upcoming Longevity Now® Conference, continues discussing the fundamental issues with conventional farming practices that are destroying our planet and our health in Part 2 of this interview.

Joel Salatin, featured speaker at the upcoming Longevity Now® Conference, explains the fundamental issues with conventional farming practices that are destroying our planet and our health.

Joel Salatin, featured speaker at the upcoming Longevity Now® Conference, explains the fundamental issues with conventional farming practices that are destroying our planet and our health.

With less than 3 weeks to go until the Weston A. Price Foundation's Wise Traditions Conference in Atlanta, Aaron Zober brings on the debaters for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense FundRAISER Dinner. For the Fundraiser dinner in Atlanta this year, there’s an extra bonus of a Lincoln/Douglas style debate on whether the federal government should mandate labeling of genetically modified organisms on food products. Taking the side for government labeling is Dr. Joseph Mercola. Debating the position against GMO labeling is Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms. First, Aaron interviews Dr. Mercola. Mercola gives reasons why he believes a direct democracy for labeling genetically foods will help us eliminate GMOs. Then Aaron brings on Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms. Joel explains why government is not the answer to avoiding genetically modified organisms and what he sees as the solutions. Finally, Aaron closes the show out giving a special interview with GMO expert Jeffrey Smith. Jeffrey talks about the I-522 ballot initiative to label genetically modified foods in Washington, what our next step will be after that, and some foods that people met not realize contain GMOs.

The Wise Traditions speaker series continues. With less than 6 weeks to go until the Weston A. Price Foundation's International Conference in Atlanta, Aaron interviews Pete Kennedy, president of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. Pete talks about the success of the recent BaconPalooza that was held by the FTCLDF at Joel Salatin's Polyface Farms. Pete then gets into the programs the FTCLDF will be involved with at the upcoming Wise Traditions Conference, including the debate at the fundraiser dinner with Dr. Joseph Mercola and Joel Salatin on mandatory government labeling of GMOs. At the Conference, Pete will be speaking about legal developments in raw milk access. Pete shares with Aaron some recent news about raw milk in various states. Pete also discusses the issue of right to farm acts, including some cases going on with the right to farm in Michigan.

Paul Greive of Primal Pastures makes a visit with Aaron Zober, The Appropriate Omnivore. Primal Pastures is a poultry farm in Temecula, CA that's a newcomer to the beyond organic farming scene. Paul explains how he got into agriculture and what it means to be raising chicken sustainably and along the guidelines of Price, paleo, and primal community. Primal Pastures will also help people set up backyard chickens and Paul lets you know how you can have one at your house today. Additionally, Paul speaks about the future of Primal Pastures and how they're looking at farming other animals as well.

This week, Angelo is traveling so it's a clip heavy episode featuring, Food, Inc. (Trailer), Gary Taubes, Dr. Oz, Joel Salatin, Dr. Marc Bessler (Diet Misconceptions), Freakanomics (Poop), Michio Kaku (Civilization), and Alan Watts (Man in Nature).