Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Joel Salatin | They’re Rigging the System Against Small Farms

22 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Joel Salatin argues that food safety and security are best achieved by shortening the food chain and reducing dependence on distant sources. He contends current food regulations favor large-scale producers (scale-prejudicial), making compliance easier for big operations than for small farms, which he calls unfair and likens to 'food police'.

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If we really want safe food and secure food, what we want to do is shorten the food chain and reduce the dependency on faraway sources. What do we really want? Clean food, or do we want a bunch of concrete and stainless steel and paperwork? And so these are the kinds of things that when people say, oh, we need more inspectors, we need. No, no. What I call the food police. The food regulations are extremely scale, prejudicial. They're much easier to jump through if you're big than if you're small. And I say that's an inherently unfair regulation. If it's easier to comply when you're big than when you're small, it's inherently unfair.