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Joel Salatin: Participatory Environmentalism

Civilizations rise and fall based on soil health. The Contrary Caretaker proposes restorative protocols to redeem our ecology.
Joel Salatin: Participatory Environmentalism
Cattle walk past a creek in Etowah County, Ala., on May 14, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
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I grew up in a conservative schizophrenic Christian home. Why schizophrenic?

Because we were conservatives who believed in compost instead of chemicals. Our church friends during the 1960s and ‘70s were straight-laced Bible folks who preached the Genesis “dominion” mandate. In school at that time, we learned the term “manifest destiny” to justify exploiting an empty North America by civilized Europeans.

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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