Joel Salatin

And the best thing to do for the environment is not to abandon it.

You know, we have this environmentalism by abandonment.

And let's agree that, you know, a lot of what we've done environmentally has not been good.

Yeah.

But the answer to that is not good.

abandonment and okay humans can't come here it's to repent in sackcloth and ashes first and then dust yourself off and take your take your mechanical ability and your intellectual ability and let's now redeem and remediate everything we've hurt um and then finally the lunatic um

The lunatic part came after a particularly acrimonious phone call with a guy.

And, you know, he called me a bioterrorist and a typhoid Mary and a starvation advocate, you know, because we all know compost can't compete with chemicals, you know.

And and this was not the first time it's happened numerous times.

And I got off the phone.

Teresa was standing there, my wife.

And I said, you know.

I can either be frustrated about this and depressed, you know, Rodney Dangerfield, oh, nobody loves me, everybody hates me.

Or I can play with it.

Let's have fun with it.

Yeah, I am a lunatic.

Of course I am.

We don't vaccinate our cows.

We, you know, we don't use chemical fertilizers.

You know, so when Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine, a fertilizer jumps 400 percent.