Weston A Price Foundation -Joel Salatin – Real Food 2010

It’s time to get back our health and choose REAL Food!  The Keynote address of the 2010 Wise Traditions Conference.Joel Salatin delivers as usual. Entertaining, as well as educational. Famous for outstanding nutrition education, the Conference organizers chose the perfect keynote speaker for the entire weekend.“ Small-scale, pasture-based farming and a return to real  food is an idea that is now so foreign to most people. . . . ”Here’s how you can explain 12 common misconceptions by the outspoken farmer featured in Food, Inc. and Omnivore’s Dilemma. He says,“ . . . . because it’s important for us in our daily life with friends, at the Little League game, at public gatherings, to be able to stand toe-to-toe and articulate our position in the politics of food.”Joel Salatin is a farmer, author and one of today’s leading innovators in the sustainable food movement. Today his family’s Polyface Farm arguably represents America’s premier non-industrial food production oasis.SPEAKER:  Joel Salatin is a fulltime, third generation, alternative farmer in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, who is one of today’s leading innovators in the sustainable food movement. The family’s farm, Polyface Inc. (“The Farm of Many Faces”) achieved iconic status as the grass farm featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan and the Grammy-nominated documentary, Food Inc., as well as arguably represents America’s premier non-industrial food production oasis. Called “the high priest of the pasture” by The New York Times, Joel Salatin likes to refer to himself as a “Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-lunatic farmer.”He has authored six books, including his most recent release, Everything I Want to do is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front, which explains the hurdles and opportunities facing local food systems. His speaking and writing reflect dirt-under-the-fingernails experience punctuated with mischievous humor.A single AVI video file — 2 hoursplus bonus footage from Wise Traditions ConferenceThis is the keynote address from the Wise Traditions Conference 2010 of the Weston A. Price Foundation — famous of outstanding nutrition education from sources that are untainted by profit seeking corporations or special interest groups supported by pharmaceutical companies or government agencies.