Table of Contents

1. The original essay
2. Raw milk and dairy
3. PL 90-492
4. Custom beef
5. Bacon
6. Salmonella
7. 1,000,000 mile chicken
8. Organic certification
9. Government grants : best management practices
10. Government grants : conservation easements
11. Restaurants
12. Predators and endangered species
13. Sawmills are out
14. Zoning
15. Labor
16. Housing
17. Insurance
18. Taxes
19. Avian influenza
20. Bioterrorism
21. National animal identification system
22. Mad cow
23. Animal welfare
24. Options

About the Author

Joel Salatin and his family own and operate Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. The farm produces pastured beef, pork, chicken, eggs, turkeys, rabbits, lamb and ducks, servicing roughly 6,000 families and 50 restaurants in the farm’s bioregion. He has written 14 books to date, is editor of Stockman Grass Farmer Magazine, and lectures around the world on land healing and local food systems. Polyface Farm operates a formal apprenticeship program and conducts many educational workshops and events.