Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front

by Joel Salatin

Overview

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. Salatin's 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780963810953
Publisher:	Polyface
Publication date:	09/17/2007
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	235,066
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

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. 

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