No Chemicals, No Vaccines, No Subsidies: Inside Joel Salatin’s Farming Revolution

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Joel Salatin is one of America’s most revered regenerative farmers. At Polyface Farms, he avoids synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and vaccines. He doesn’t take any government subsidies. And he’s been a major source of inspiration for many seeking to build farms of their own with symbiotic, sustainable ecosystems—ones that enrich rather than deplete the soil.

For decades, he’s been fighting government overregulation of small food producers.

Salatin is featured in multiple documentaries and is the author of 17 books, including “Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front” and “Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World.”

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0:00.0	We use compost, not chemicals.
0:02.0	We don't vaccinate.
0:03.0	We don't medicate.
0:04.0	We move the animals around.
0:05.0	They get salibar.
0:06.0	They have an immune system.
0:07.0	In this episode, I sit down with Joel Salatin,
0:10.0	popularly known as the Lunatic Farmer.
0:13.0	He's the owner of Polyface Farm, an author of 17 books, including Everything I Want to Do is Illegal.
0:20.0	War Stories from the local food front.
0:22.1	In the last 24 months, the U.S. has killed 166 million chickens. The great majority of them
0:28.2	have not been sick. There is zero efficacy for this mass slaughter of the healthy birds.
0:33.6	We dive into alternative solutions to bird flu and Joel Salatin's innovative approaches to farming.
0:39.3	I can remember very well as a child, we never heard the phrase food allergy,
0:45.3	celiac disease, gluten intolerance, or listeria, fisteria, campelobacter, e coli, salmonella.
0:52.3	And I would suggest that that is nature's lexicon on its knees
0:57.0	begging us enough. Please. The question is, are we willing to listen?
1:02.0	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick.
1:05.0	You may have noticed it's Shen Yun season again, but I wanted to tell you a little bit personally about why I love
1:13.0	this show and go see it every year. Aside from being beautiful, it's actually a homegrown American
1:19.7	dream success story. All things from traditional China were under attack during the cultural revolution
1:26.5	and have kind of really remained that way since.
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