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Farmers Lose the Tax Fight

The lopsided reality behind overtaxing farmers is that residential people vote. Chickens don’t.
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Farmers Lose the Tax Fight
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Joel Salatin
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“A gallon of water is worth $150 in a Las Vegas casino hot tub and only 20 cents growing lettuce for the same casino.” I'll never forget my shock at that statement during a Xeriscaping conference in Phoenix some 20 years ago.

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Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin
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Joel F. Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author. Salatin raises livestock on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct marketing to consumers and restaurants.
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