Over the last two decades, Joel Salatin [1] has earned a reputation as an innovative, low-tech, sustainability [1]-minded farmer who produces a mighty fine pork chop. Now he’s giving the public the chance to feast on his knowledge in a new book, Holy Cows & Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm Friendly Food [2]. Grist.org reviews [3] this concientious-consumer’s Baedeker.

Styled as a how-to guide for consumers, the book strives to “inform you, the food buyer, about the farmer’s world and your responsibility in it.”

The consumer’s first responsibility, for Salatin, is to figure out which farmers are growing with passion, with a love of their land and their product. He implores consumers to get to know the farmers who produce their food. Beautiful food, he implies, is grown in a beautiful place. Syndicated from Grist.org [4].

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