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by: Joel Salatin  List Price: $23.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.29 You Save: $7.66 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 631.584097559 EAN: 9780963810953 ISBN: 0963810952 Label: Polyface Manufacturer: Polyface Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: September 17, 2007 Publisher: Polyface Studio: Polyface Related Items:
Editorial Review: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Mandatory readingI found this book very enlightening and I think everyone should read this book at least once. I would compare his anecdotes to those of Upton Sinclair when he wrote the The Jungle. This is why you see so much criticism among these reviews, because the things he writes about are rather shocking to those of us outside the farming community. None of us liked to read about the things that went on in the meatpacking industry and I doubt most people would pick Sinclair's book a second time for that reason, ... Read More Rating:  - This Guy is a Nut!Salatin is a nut, but a very interesting nut. Now, this book is titled "Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal" and so I should expect complaining. But, this book was over the top. He justs rants. In his view, no one but him can figure anything out. He will argue for a position in one chapter but against it in another. For instance, he says chicken should be tested based upon the birds health levels, not how the bird is taken care of. But when government inspectors show up at his farm to test his birds ... Read More Rating: - Great BookWell written, humorous stories from an independent small farmer detailing his struggles with government oversight and inspection. The role of the USDA in particular and government regulators as presented by Salatin is to make things as difficult as possible for the independent farmer. Most of the health problems in the US directly arise from the industrial food system. Local, independent food is the answer! Rating: - Everything I want to do is illegalJoel Salatin is a pionner. He is opening the way for all of us in tomorrow's world of good food coming from self sustaining farm. I highly recommend this book if you are interested in your future. Rating: - Great book, both enlightening and entertaining.First I must say that I am biased, being a fan of Joe Salatin and an advocate of sustainable and bio-dynamic farming. This was the third book that I have read from him and found it to be the most entertaining thus far. It is not however pure entertainment, there is plenty of useful information presented. Unlike his other books that are packed with content and process laid out step by step, this one presents a topic along with a story and his commentary that follows which gives you something ... Read More 
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