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Book: Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
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  1. Joel Salatin _ Folks, This Ain't Normal: A

    This abnormal cheap energy petroleum age may appear to be a bonanza, but in the long run it has shredded boundaries and proximities that defined economic and social normalcy for centuries. In the continuum of human history, this petroleum age is a mere blip. Cheap energy, on a timeline, is scarcely a speck on the chart. Yet we have the audacity, the irrationality, to plunge forward with building designs, suburban designs, transportation designs as if this cheap
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  2. Joel Salatin _ Folks, This Ain't Normal: A

    Industrial eggs are washed in a chlorine bath. Since the shells are permeable, some of that chlorine enters the egg. This is standard food safety protocol. In fact, some health department inspectors believe an egg not washed in chlorine is not fit for human consumption.
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  3. Joel Salatin _ Folks, This Ain't Normal: A

    Industrial eggs are washed in a chlorine bath. Since the shells are permeable, some of that chlorine enters the egg. This is standard food safety protocol. In fact, some health department inspectors believe an egg not washed
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  4. Joel Salatin _ Folks, This Ain't Normal: A

    Originally planning to go with a small house concept, we found it was illegal to build a house of less than nine hundred square feet. Why? By what authority can anybody tell me what kind of house I have to live in?
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  5. Joel Salatin _ Folks, This Ain't Normal: A

    It was the fact that we were selling dead animals. You see, farmers are only supposed to sell live animals to processors and marketers who are supposed to make all the money-those notorious middlemen. After all, we couldn't have all that middleman money going to farmers. No, that wouldn't be right. Farmers are supposed to be peasants, serfs, impoverished dolts, remember?
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  6. Joel Salatin _ Folks, This Ain't Normal: A

    Look in the mirror and decide once and for all: Am I biological or mechanical? Is my deepest essence a machine or not?
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  7. Joel Salatin _ Folks, This Ain't Normal: A

    Delayed gratification is a powerful emotional reality, and tempers many things. Perhaps even things like road rage would lessen if we all tuned in to seasonal cycles. Perhaps even Wall Street, with its insatiable growth mentality, would see value in a rest cycle. Oh, sorry, we call that a depression, don't we? Why must we be disappointed at anything except red hot? Hockey stick charts don't last. The kitchen is where the normal person becomes grounded, joins the food team, and passes ultimate landscape connections to the next generation. Abdicating that responsibility creates a self-centered, myopic generation. I've
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  8. Joel Salatin _ Folks, This Ain't Normal: A

    I really like those old shows. I've decided the way to know you're becoming an old fogey is when the only shows you like are sponsored by Depends, the Scooter Store, and Viagra.
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  9. Joel Salatin _ Folks, This Ain't Normal: A

    Whenever an economic sector cloisters itself behind opaqueness, it will begin taking environmental, social, and economic shortcuts. Integrity occurs when people can see what's going in at the front door and what's coming out the back door. Absent that accountability, you lose integrity.
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  10. Joel Salatin _ Folks, This Ain't Normal: A

    Look, if you need sexy egg cartons to sell our eggs, then you need to educate your customers. We don't intend to patronize big oil just so we can sell eggs at Whole Foods.
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  11. Joel Salatin _ Folks, This Ain't Normal: A

    When a container of foreign goodies arrives in the village, everyone mobs the freebies and takes the Western handouts. This collapses the local business and these displaced go-getters become the famous warlords we in the West have all learned are the nexus of all those people's problems.
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  12. Joel Salatin _ Folks, This Ain't Normal: A

    Radical Homemakers, Shannon Hayes describes
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