Though there are doubtless dozens of such interviews already in circulation, I particularly like this version of Joel Salatin's philosophy on farming and food. He has quite a talent for distilling the complex issues of small farms in the US into a digestible moral philosophy. Impressive.
Morsels:
"The food industry, I'm convinced, actually believes we don't need soil to live."
"The food industry views everything through the skewed paradigm of faith in human cleverness rather than dependence on nature's design."
"...a culture that views its life from such an arrogant, manipulative, disrespectful hubris, will view its own citizenry the same way--and other cultures."
"The Jeffersonian ideal of the agrarian intellectual is about as culturally American as it gets--and I suggest as revolutionary today as it was in his day, when breaking from royalty and all its worldviews was as different as breaking from globalization, and its worldviews is today."
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