Summary of Joel Salatin's Folks, This Ain't Normal

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The biggest thrill in life for today’s teenagers is becoming competent on the video game. This is not normal, and it is creating an environment that is not conducive to future leaders.
#2 Gather wood, and you will find a lot of satisfaction in the heart of a young person. This activity allows them to commune with the forest’s bounty, its diversity of species, and the different properties of each.
#3 The American tradition of gathering firewood is a testament to the deep personal satisfaction, the physical, emotional, and spiritual affirmation that such work engenders. It is the ultimate self-actualization.
#4 The wood-gathering chore taught me both personal responsibility and dependability. If I got cold, it wasn’t anyone’s fault but my own. I had to think ahead, plan, and be aware of outside temperature that determined how much wood we would burn for the night.

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 13 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669353775
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Joel Salatin's Folks This Aint Normal
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17 Insights from Chapter 18 Insights from Chapter 19 Insights from Chapter 20 Insights from Chapter 21 Insights from Chapter 22 Insights from Chapter 23
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The biggest thrill in life for today’s teenagers is becoming competent on the video game. This is not normal, and it is creating an environment that is not conducive to future leaders.

#2

Gather wood, and you will find a lot of satisfaction in the heart of a young person. This activity allows them to commune with the forest’s bounty, its diversity of species, and the different properties of each.

#3

The American tradition of gathering firewood is a testament to the deep personal satisfaction, the physical, emotional, and spiritual affirmation that such work engenders. It is the ultimate self-actualization.

#4

The wood-gathering chore taught me both personal responsibility and dependability. If I got cold, it wasn’t anyone’s fault but my own. I had to think ahead, plan, and be aware of outside temperature that determined how much wood we would burn for the night.

#5

Picking up cow dung from the barnyard is a traditional chore for boys. It helps develop the traditional skills of wheelbarrowing and handling manure, which are important for urban young people to develop.

#6

When we create something that we can sensually experience, and that represents our ingenuity, the gratitude on the part of the recipient speaks to deeper levels of our personhood.

#7

I believe that children should have autonomous businesses. This teaches them the value of a dollar, persistence, thrift, and good math skills. The earlier someone learns the difference between profit and loss, the better.

#8

Our culture now denies young people the activities that build their self-worth and make them valuable members of society. Rather than seeing children as an asset, we view them as a liability.

#9

Gangs are a result of society’s failure to provide children with a sense of self-worth. Gangs are a direct result of children’s eviction from visceral societal contribution.

#10

Gardening is a great way to teach your kids about life and its values. When we relegated our kids to only find accomplishment from entertainment or athletic trophies, we have failed to give them a proper understanding of human value.

#11

The first step in knowing what to fix is understanding what to fear. The gardener fears changes in the weather pattern, lack of water, soil loss, and husbandry negligence. The wise gardener studies his environment, watching for weeds, bugs, drought, flood, heat, cold, and soil changes.

#12

Gardening teaches children balance, and helps them understand that what is will not always be. It is this kind of balance that children who garden bring to their adult lives.

#13

The hygiene hypothesis states that a lack of exposure to dirt, bacteria, and minor pathogenic insults leads to an immune system that is not functioning normally. This hypothesis has been proven true in developed countries, where the number of people with allergies has increased by 100 percent since 1990.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

We have become extremely disconnected from our environment. We no longer have to worry about food, air, water, lumber, and energy, because we can simply scan a credit card, open a plastic bag, and nuke it in the microwave.

#2

The cow, more than anything else, represents civilization. Without the herbivore, the forage would grow to senescence, fall over, and oxidize CO2 into the atmosphere. The herbivorous pruning restarts the juvenile growth phase of the biomass engine.

#3

The cow is a great tool to rejuvenate the soil, but some people seem to think that because we use the cow to graze the soil-building pasture component, we have to eat her. This is an example of how our culture has become absurd.

#4

The fact that life requires sacrifice has profound spiritual ramifications. Everything is eating and being eaten, and to see this as regenerative is both mature and normal. To see it as violence that must be stopped is both abnormal and juvenile.

#5

The sacrifice is elevated to sacredness based on the respect and honor bestowed on the sacrifice during its life. The life well lived bestows upon the sacrifice its sacredness. And so how the chicken or carrot or cabbage lives defines the life’s value consummated in the act of death.

#6

The author’s friend’s neighbor called animal control on him because his horses looked cold in snow. The author explained that horses grow extra feathers, hair, and wool to protect them against cold in winter.

#7

The author of the critical commentary believed that the field shelters were a place where the chickens didn’t want to be, and that they were over manure piles they were supposed to eat larvae from. But in reality, the chickens received more square footage per chicken in their lifetime than free-range flocks.

#8

The world’s rabbits are raised in groups, but they are extremely susceptible to coccidiosis, a disease caused by a soil-borne protozoan parasite. They are also fed antibiotics to combat this problem.

#9

The animal control officers, regardless of whether or not the charges are outrageous, must follow up each allegation as if it has merit. The officers were not neighborly, and did not understand the cows’ behavior. They did not understand that the cows needed to be in a herd.

#10

The function that herbivores play in stimulating biomass accumulation is real and powerful. However, critics of industrial animal farming often fail to differentiate between animals raised well and those that are not.

#11

The anti-farm animal crowd regularly argues that more people could be fed with grain than from the meat created by animals eating grain. However, the real numbers are about seven pounds of grain for beef, three pounds of grain for pork, and two pounds of grain for poultry.

#12

The anti-animal crowd also argues that it uses too much water to raise farm animals. But the same argument exists on the vegetable side, between ecologically friendly plants and those that aren’t.

#13

The dearth of farming-ecology understanding is ubiquitous in our culture. We spend our time discovering and learning what we believe to be important. When I look at a bookstore shelf, I’m attracted to the subjects I deem important.

#14

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