Please welcome Joel Salat. He's a hero of mine and a hero of a lot of us on the

food team. He's a farmer, lecturer and author. He's a self-acclaimed Christian

libertarian, environmentalist, capitalist, lunatic farmer. Salaton raises

livestock using holistic methods of animal husbandry on his farm in Virginia.

The super hero of the soil, the future of our food, the servant of the salad, the

men of the meat. We live on a farm that has four generations living on it. It's

quite dramatic, it's quite amazing and we grow our own food. I feel like we just

live in this nest of abundance. According to the USDA, this is unsanitary

because it's open to the air. They try to close us down. It's one of the biggest

shodown we have. Those of us that are out in the trenches, it's not a friendly

world out there. Our neighbors think we're bioterists because we don't

vaccinate our cows. The environmentalists don't get us because we're

actually... we call ourselves environmentalists but we're actually farming. I

thought farming destroyed the environment. The most common question that I get asked

and probably many of you by Naysayer is, that all sounds real nice but can we

really feed the world? And if every farm in North America would do this in

fewer than 10 years, we would sequester all the carbon that's been emitted since

the beginning of the industrial age. That's how fast this can work. The pandemic is

the best marketing strategy we've ever seen. We're having the best season we've

ever had. It's the industrial mega system that's cracking. As we have pulled

away from handling food, from culinary, domestic culinary arts, we have to

become profoundly ignorant about food. So what happens is this profound lack of

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