Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front | 
| Author: Joel Salatin
Publisher: Polyface
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 8731
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0963810952
Dewey Decimal Number: 631.584097559
EAN: 9780963810953
ASIN: 0963810952
Publication Date: September 17, 2007
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Product Description
Drawing upon 40 years experience as an ecological farmer and marketer, Joel Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat. From child labor regulations to food inspection, bureaucrats provide themselves sole discretion over what food is available in the local marketplace. Their system favors industrial, global corporate food systems and discourages community-based food commerce, resulting in homogenized selection, mediocre quality, and exposure to non-organic farming practices. Salatins expert insight explains why local food is expensive and difficult to find and will illuminate for the reader a deeper understanding of the industrial food complex.
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 Worth reading March 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book illustrates countless items that most people don't know or think about but should. I am HACCP certified and worked in a processing facility for over a decade so I know a lot of what he says is true e.g. inspectors mainly worry about paperwork, not the product; that many day workers/temps work in processing facilities. Other things I'll have to take his word for.
Lots of people make fun of the airport screening process. If they only knew what a farce the federal food safety program is they'd want their tax dollars back. The author does go off on a tangent or rant at times, still the book is worth reading.
 Every Consumer Needs To Read This February 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is very well written and has Joel's humor shining through out it. Every person who cares about their food, and how it is handled and how healthy it is needs to read this book. We need to take back the control over our food. It is no longer about food safety, but often about a little Hitler type person who let their position give them a warped sense of power. These are real live situations that happened.
A frightening but honest view of our government January 21, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Joel Salatin provides an honest, albiet frightening, view of what it is like trying to run a small business in America in 2007. As the owner of a small business for 27 years, as well as a sustainable ag farmer for the past 3 years, I can attest to everything Joel discusses in his book. Other reviews criticize his political leanings, his simplistic libertarianism, his religious beliefs, and his so called "rants", but none of these critics challenges the truth of what he reveals. Those in the front always take the first arrows. This book should scare the hell out of anyone who believes that government is the answer to all of our ills. For those of us who want clean food, those of us who want to produce a wholesome product for us, our families, and our neighbors, and most of all, those of us who just want a choice in our lives, this book is a testament to the need for a revolution against the food industry as well as our big bully government. I borrowed this book from my son, but am so appreciative of the information within, that I will send Joel a check today for the cost of the book.
Very good and worthy book January 18, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This wake-up call book is a must-read for anyone interested in their food supply, modern agriculture, small agricultural business, and might be helpful to other aspiring entrepreneurs as well. Mr. Salatin speaks of his frustrations, and provides suggestions for solutions to the very real problems. As a land-owner who's family has been involved in the ranching business since the 1870s, I know that many of the things he says are true, and yes, I've seen the other side.
Artisinal Ag Insight November 19, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Finding a more ecological way to farm...smaller and local....closer to the rhythms of nature...free of the rules and regulations concocted for big agriculture, is not only a dream, but a worthy and noble dream. We live within an industrialized food system, where the "masses" are fed not only bland and somtimes unhealthy food, but are also fed...for corporate advantage and profit...an awful lot of propaganda and half-truth, about one of the most universal human activites...eating.
I appreciate that Salatin puts his local agricultural vision of his specific operations in the contex of entrepreeurship. It's exactly the medicine that's needed, if the movement is to succeed. This alone, makes the book worth reading, and for me, supersedes some areas of strong disagreement.
The vision for a new appreciation of the traditional wisdom of agriculture...as in many other areas of accumulated human wisdom, has been largely discarded by the modern world...and the unsustainable modern food juggernaut, in particular. Salatin posits that a wall now divides Americans from a healthier, more sustainable, and more enjoyable food culture. This is his message, and it is a necessary and good one.
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