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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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