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Who is the person most radically different from you whose ideas you consume?

I love Joel Salatin.

Joel is a fundamentalist Christian - a member of the US religious right.

Joel is an odd duck. He doesn’t fit in anywhere.

See, Joel is a libertarian, organic farming environmentalist.

His books have been hugely helpful in my understanding of permaculture and how humans working in partnership with nature (with god according to Joel) we can help save the earth, develop soil, improve local economies all while making food more nutritious and delicious.

Some great starters with Joel include: Everything I want to do is illegal, You can farm and Folks, this ain’t normal.

These books for the most part have focused on farming while merely stating his position as an evangelical Christian.

Well… That was up until now.

Published in 2017 The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs - Caring for and Respecting all of God’s Creation is a departure from his focus on the mechanics of farming and environmental renewal. In this …