I'm fairly certain that people who are intimately familiar with Joel Salatin and his philosophy and ideas and writing know much more than myself as far as the good, bad and ugly that goes with having opinions and publicly voicing them...especially about something so terribly personal as food. I would however at this juncture in our relationship like to introduce you to ideas that could have you consider something that might be just a little larger than you are comfortable with.
The New York Times calls Salatin "Virginia's most multifaceted agrarian since Thomas Jefferson [and] the high priest of the pasture". Salatin calls himself an environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer.
I have to admit that those quotes are enough to draw my curiosity and give the article a few minutes of my time. To further bait your curiosity, I have posted a quote from the article explaining some of his techniques which marry the traditional heritage farm with state of the art technology allowing a "better than nature" approach to farming.
If you'd like to see more, click the "Read More" button to view the quote and a link to the entire article.