Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front

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Drawing upon 40 years' experience as an ecological farmer and marketer, Joel Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat. From child labor regulations to food inspection, bureaucrats provide themselves sole discretion over what food is available in the local marketplace. Their system favors industrial, global corporate food systems and discourages community-based food commerce, resulting in homogenized selection, mediocre quality, and exposure to non-organic farming practices. Salatin's expert insight explains why local food is expensive and difficult to find and will illuminate for the reader a deeper ...
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Drawing upon 40 years' experience as an ecological farmer and marketer, Joel Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat. From child labor regulations to food inspection, bureaucrats provide themselves sole discretion over what food is available in the local marketplace. Their system favors industrial, global corporate food systems and discourages community-based food commerce, resulting in homogenized selection, mediocre quality, and exposure to non-organic farming practices. Salatin's expert insight explains why local food is expensive and difficult to find and will illuminate for the reader a deeper understanding of the industrial food complex.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780963810953
  • Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
  • Publication date: 9/17/2007
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 126,345
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author


Called "the high priest of the pasture" by The New York Times, Joel Salatin likes to refer to himself as a "Christian-libertarianenvironmentalist-lunatic farmer." He lives with his family on Polyface Farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     xi
Foreword     xii
Introduction     xv
The Past
The Original Essay     2
Raw Milk and Dairy     12
PL 90-492     26
Custom Beef     46
Bacon     62
Salmonella     74
1,000,000 Mile Chicken     84
The Present
Organic Certification     98
Government Grants - Best Management Practices     112
Government Grants - Conservation Easements     126
Restaurants     136
Predators and Endangered Species     148
Sawmills Are Out     162
Zoning     172
Labor     186
Housing     202
Insurance     220
Taxes     236
The Future
Avian Influenza     248
Bioterrorism     262
National Animal Identification System     270
Mad Cow     290
Animal Welfare     300
Options     312
Index     329

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 31, 2007

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    I'm a grass-fed livestock farmer living near Joel Salatin and have visited his farm and bought his products many times. This book does accurately reflect who Joel is: funny, blunt, knowledgeable 'about some topics', charismatic, certainly a pioneer. However, beware of making assumptions about Joel. The vast majority of his customers and fans are interested in organic foods, have an environmentalist bent, and are politically liberal. They may assume that Joel is like them -- but be assured that he certainly is not. Joel hates all those things. He is a fundamentalist Christian creationist and his politics are somewhere to the right of Dick Cheney. A few examples: He shoots any non-farm animal that comes on his property 'including dogs, rare martens, and birds of prey', and does it with an enthusiasm that is disturbing for a so-called 'poster boy for humane agriculture.' This 'ecological farmer' opposes wilderness areas, endangered species protection, and farmland preservation and would like to see all land privatized to be milked for all its worth in the name of 'property rights.' He compares animal-rights supporters and vegetarians to abortionists. And that's just a few of the chapters! While I agree with a number of his points -- for example, that small-scale farmers should be exempt from regulations designed for corporate agribusinesses like Cargill or Tyson -- his simplistic libertarianism is more appropriate for a college sophomore. Yes, he pioneered pastured poultry and popularized grass-fed farming in general. The number of different profitable enterprises on his farm is remarkable. And anybody who can make a living farming these days should be congratulated. But this book shows him as a generic, naive libertarian wanna-be who has a persecution complex and a far higher opinion of himself than is deserved. I highly recommend his other, more practical, books -- 'Salad Bar Beef' etc -- instead of this angry right-wing rant. Let's hope a more moderate farmer steps up as a spokesman for this critical paradigm shift in agriculture.

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    Posted January 6, 2012

    Good conversation

    This book is full of great information, but it has a tendency to get long winded often. It is more like a conversation with someone with much experience. I don't feel like he is trying to preach his political views, or convert me.

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