Joel Salatin

His body was starved for nutrition.

He was eating stuff.

But it wasn't nutritional.

And so many people, many people don't trust what they see in the store anymore, but they don't know where to turn.

And I'm telling you, based on the thousands of farmers and homesteaders that I encounter every year, if we had a food emancipation proclamation, there would be an atomic explosion of

of value-added convenience opportunity in neighborhoods all over this country, and suddenly that good food would be affordable?

Because all food regulations are scale prejudicial.

It's easier to comply if you're big than if you're small.

We own a small federal inspected slaughterhouse up in Harrisonburg.

It costs us $600 to do what JBS, one of the big four meatpackers, what it cost them $150 to do.

Because we have the same HACCP plan, the same paperwork, but we spread our inspector and bathroom and all these special inspection overheads.

We spread it over 50 beef a week.

They spread it over 5,000 a day.

And it's it's exactly the same.

And so when people accuse me of being, well, you're elitist, you know, your prices are high, all that.

They don't have to be.

They're only high because because we were trying to squeeze.

We don't have a food emancipation proclamation.

So we're trying to squeeze our low volume through this this this industrial movement.

Yeah, well, when people blame – so where I differ with a lot of my friends is they view, well, the big guys are trying to run people like us out of business.