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Podcast: Behind The Shield
Episode: Joel Salatin (America's Most Influencial Farmer) - Episode 4
Description: This week's guest is America's most infamous farmer. Featured in the documentaries Food inc, Fresh and Polyfaces. Joel is a pioneer in a return to holistic sustainable farming. He prides himself in not using chemicals or medications in his livestock and poultry. Joel uses a transient grazing model to ensure that the food his animals is optimized.Joel Salatin, 59, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson...