Nov. 26, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| I think it was probably about 12 years ago. | |
| I was speaking at an event, and he was also speaking at the event. | |
| And my first thought was, I have nothing to learn from a farmer. | |
| And I stood back in the back as he began to talk, and he was railing against the way animals are raised and against the way they're slaughtered and the American food supply. | |
| And I remember just, and he would say things like, we need to rediscover the chickenness of the chicken. | |
| You know, and this kind of stuff. | |
| I was thinking, suddenly, I don't know. | |
| I don't know what this guy's even talking about. | |
| Why is this guy even speaking? | |
| I couldn't even understand it. | |
| Now I'm all in. | |
| I just love it. | |
| You know, the great thing about Joel Salatin, this is going to sound hyperbolic, it's not. | |
| He reminds me of Thomas Jefferson, who was both, he was a great architect, a great scientist, and Joel Salatin's also an architect, kind of a scientist in a way, a great philosopher and writer, but also a farmer. | |
| And that's what Joel is. | |
| He's all the things that Thomas Jefferson was. | |
| I'm publishing an old biography of Thomas Jefferson, about which everybody's forgotten. | |
| We're going to publish it next year. | |
| So that's why I'm thinking about this. |
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