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Joel F. Salatin (born February 24, 1957) is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include ''Folks, This Ain't Normal''; ''You Can Farm''; and ''Salad Bar Beef''. Salatin raises livestock using holistic management methods of animal husbandry, free of harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct-marketing to consumers and restaurants.〔("High Priest of the Pasture," New York Times, May 1, 2005 ).〕 ==Biography== In high school, Salatin began his own business selling rabbits, eggs, butter and chicken from his family farm at the Staunton Curb Market.〔(Staunton ''News Leader'', May 23, 2009. )〕 He then attended Bob Jones University where he majored in English and was a student leader. He graduated in 1979.〔''Vintage'' (yearbook ) (1979), 366. Salatin was a member of the Inter-Collegiate Debate team, the winner of the Daniel J. Carrison Americanism essay contest, and was named to ''Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges''. In 2009, the BJU Alumni Association named Salatin "Alumnus of the Year." (Staunton News Leader, April 28, 2009 ).〕 Salatin married his childhood sweetheart in 1980 and became a feature writer at the Staunton, Virginia newspaper, ''The News Leader'', where he had worked earlier typing obituaries and police reports.〔(Staunton ''News Leader'', May 23, 2009. ) “I figured I'd become an investigative journalist like Bernstein and write my bestseller and then retire to the farm like Thoreau." "Mimicking the Cycles of the Creator,”''Voice of the Alumni'' (Jones University ),82.4 (2009), 5-7.〕 Tired of “having his stories spiked,” he decided to try farming full-time after first getting involved in a walnut-buying station run by two high school boys.〔''Voice of the Alumni''.〕 Salatin's grandfather had been an avid gardener and beekeeper and a follower of J. I. Rodale, the founder of regenerative organic horticulture. Salatin's father worked as an accountant and his mother taught high school physical education. Salatin's parents had bought the land that became Polyface in 1961 after losing a farm in Venezuela to political turmoil. They had raised cattle using organic methods, but could not make a living at farming alone.〔("High Priest of the Pasture," ''New York Times'', May 1, 2005 ). Salatin's father worked as an accountant and his mother taught high school physical education.〕 Salatin, a self-described “Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic-Farmer” produces high-quality "beyond organic" meats, which are raised using environmentally responsible, ecologically beneficial, sustainable agriculture. Jo Robinson, the author of ''Pasture Perfect: The Far-Reaching Benefits of Choosing Meat, Eggs and Dairy Products From Grass-Fed Animals'' (2004) said of Salatin, “He's not going back to the old model. There's nothing in county extension or old-fashioned ag science that really informs him. He is just looking totally afresh at how to maximize production in an integrated system on a holistic farm. He's just totally innovative.”〔 Salatin considers his farming a ministry, and he condemns the negative impact on his livelihood and lifestyle of what he considers an increasingly regulatory approach taken by the agencies of the United States government toward farming.〔Salatin's description of one of his talks, “Everything I Want to Do is Illegal”: “Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices. From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems. A call for guerrilla marketing, food choice freedom legislation, and empirical pathogen thresholds offers solutions to these bureaucratic hurdles.” (Polyface Farms website ).〕 Salatin now spends a hundred days a year lecturing at colleges and to environmental groups.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joel Salatin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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