Joel Salatin
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It is.
It blows, it blows your mind.
It blows your mind.
And, and, um, and the problem with that is, is going too far down that, uh,
to where you start viewing life as a God, rather than life as an expression of God's fearfully and wonderfully made-edness.
So for me, physical creation is an object lesson of spiritual truth.
So when people come to my farm, I want them to drive out the lane saying, oh, oh, that's what mercy looks like.
Oh, that's what provision looks like.
Oh, that's what redemption looks like.
It's not just an assortment of things.
protoplasmic structure to be manipulated however cleverly the human mind can imagine to manipulate it.
Nobody in land grant universities today is asking, how do we grow happy pigs?
The question is, how do we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper?
And so if our procedure makes stress on pigs, well, I mean, right now there's research.
How do we find the stress DNA, the porcine stress DNA to extract it so that we can abuse pigs more, but they won't be stressed about it?
You know, a society that views life from that kind of dominant manipulative standpoint, who doesn't ask what's the essence of pig and how to make a happy pig,
will soon not ask how to make a happy citizen or how to have a Tom and a Mary that fully express their physiological and phenotypical distinctiveness.
So, yeah.
So, yeah.
You know, we have... I mean, you're a spiritual person, I know.