A Parallel Food System Already Exists. Are You In It? | Joel Salatin
FROM THE ARCHIVE (2022): References to current events, governmental administrations, or public policies may not reflect present-day circumstances.
Building your own chicken farm can be as cheap and easy as cancelling your Netflix subscription. At least that’s what Joel Salatin thinks, in this 2022 speech brought back from the archive. Learn as Salatin makes the argument that a better way of farming and consuming food is out there, and he’s living it right now.
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“Local Food as Parallel Agriculture”
Joel Salatin
Polyface Farms
This speech was given on November 15,2022, during a Hillsdale College CCA Seminar, “Parallel Economies”
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Timecodes:
0:00 – Trailer
1:12 – How Self-Sufficient Farms Survived Global Shocks
4:31 – Cheap Food vs. Precious Food
7:23 – Why Food Quality Has Declined Since 1940
9:41 – From Integrated Farms to Segregated Food Systems
13:21 – Why Decentralized Farming Feeds More People
16:27 – Mechanical vs. Biological Views of Life
19:51 – How Opaque Food Systems Breed Fear and Regulation
23:03 – Chemical Fertilizer vs. Carbon-Based Soil Health
27:25 – Why Health, Not Sickness, Should Drive Farming
30:33 – Exploitive Farming vs. Nurturing the Land
33:05 – Tyranny vs. Liberty in Food Policy
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