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Joel Salatin

The Lunatic Farmer

Regenerative Farmer

Joel’s Blog – https://www.thelunaticfarmer.com/blog

Polyface Farms – https://polyfacefarms.com/

• RFK Jr let’s not underestimate the pull that he has and his inner sanctum. 
• I know Thomas Massie and he and I go way back.
• I know the Means and they have caused quite a stir. 
• This agriculture element hasn’t been a republican issue it is now for the first time.
• I think its because we’ve gotten so far away from good farming practices that it is attracting the attention of others.
• I don’t know I would have voted for RFK Jr, I was thrilled he was in the race.
• He has always sued the government for not doing their jobs and I’d like to just see the agencies abolished. 
• He has gone way up in my mind b/c this showed heart and class.
• Much of the agriculture economy is dependent on doing things wrong.
• From feeding cows corn to all manner of things.
• The monetization is often directly tied to the farm policy and economic imperative.
• As long as Chick-fil-A and McDonald’s are building new stores we are still on the wrong track.
• We have damaged millions of ares of land that we simply can’t use anymore for food.
• The fact is we are for all of our platitudes of climate, we are still as a culture going backwards on health and soil health and nutrition and that pendulum has swung so far that it is now coming back to us.
• Has Cargil and Purdue have they overplayed their hand?
• The fact that SNAP spends $9 billion a year for sugar drinks, it should give you pause as to where we have been going.
• 10% of the SNAP budget which has nutrition in its title goes to sugary drinks.
• Durable Trades Book – the new value recognition.
• The new 401k in my opinion is actually knowing how or knowing people who know how to grow, fix and build things.
• I don’t mean computer programing either.
• I mean planting a tree, canning vegetables, working on a truck engine things like that.
• I don’t want to be stuck in a condominium it the city when stuff hits the fan.
• These dirty jobs are part of what we need to start thinking about.
• The average American male b/w 25-35 year olds spend 20 hours a week playing video games. 
• They could be growing food, taking vocational courses. 
• There is so much they could be doing w/ that wasted time.
• Was it hard for you to get your products into restaurants in Virginia?
• To unpack the food safety service would take almost a day.
• For many of your listeners, we can process 20,000 chickens w/o government inspection and sell them to restaurants, delis and homeowners. 
• But I can’t sell 1lb of sausage or ground beef w/o a government inspection.
• There is an unreasonable labyrinth.
• That is why Thomas Massie  – Constitutional Amendment 
• Here’s the deal we live in a time where we have choice in the bathroom, bedroom, womb but no choice in our mouth and stomach. 
• Our own microbiome so to speak.
• Our Founders couldn’t imagine a day where we couldn’t buy or drink milk from our neighbors cows or goats.
• Massie and I believe that of all the rights we could bestow on a human is the human right to food choice needs to be a foundational right. 
• The Tree Huggers the Earth Muffins – 
• Government policy, quit subsidizing Tyson and don’t subsidize the small farms either!
• I don’t want government in our food system period.

• Organic Farmer – that doesn’t mean I’m a liberal! 
• I have the honor and privilege to make BOTH sides mad
• MAHA one could say America was never healthy.
• We need to Make America FREE Again.
• There are farmers ready to produce everything from staples to convenient foods.
• Like honest Hot Pockets!
• But we have a bureaucrat standing b/w them and the public.
• There needs to be a pathway for 2 people to exercise a voluntary food transaction w/o a bureaucrat being involved.
• We should be able to engage in neighbor to neighbor food transactions. 
• Tyson and all these big empires started from a tailgate of a pickup truck many years ago.
• Today you can’t start that way, the government won’t allow it.
• Bob Evans is another one, he got started from the back of a pickup truck.
• When we talk about concentration in the industry, it isn’t b/c no one wants to make x, y, or z it is b/c of the requirements and entrepreneurs can’t get break through that so it is stifling imagination. 
• All these little dreams can’t be birthed b/c the little baby has to be a full grown person before it can get started due to regulations.
• Earl Butz said go big or go home.
• I’m not an enemy of size and scale but I don’t want…it is a matter of being able for small players to be able to enter the game.
• Level the playing field, they don’t mean to really level the playing field.
• I could bring to the table is what I call Food Emancipation Proclamation to take the shackles off of farmers and consumers.
• We have what we have not b/c of a free market.
• We have not had a free market in food ever since Teddy Roosevelt. 

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