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Holy Cows And Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's Guide To Farm Friendly Food | 
 enlarge | Author: Joel Salatin
Publisher: Polyface
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 188433
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0963810944
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.3
EAN: 9780963810946
ASIN: 0963810944
Publication Date: February 19, 2005
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Product Description
Holy Cows and Hog Heaven is written by an honest-to-goodness-dirt-under-the-fingernails, optimistic clean good farmer. His goal is to:
Empower food buyers to pursue positive alternatives to the industrialized food system.
Bring clean food farmers and their patrons into a teamwork relationship.
Marry the best of western technology with the soul of eastern ethics.
Educate food buyers about productions.
Create a food system that enhances natures ecology for future generations.
Holy Cows and Hog Heaven has an overriding objective of encouraging every food buyer to embrace the notion that menus are a conscious decision, creating the next generations world one bite at a time.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Very informative September 20, 2008
I have to admit I am a big fan of Salatin's writing and this one is no different. Once I get my CSA running I will sell copies of this book to my customers.
It has changed the way I purchase my food. It will change the way I raise food.
Very good read and amusing as well as eye opening.
Integrity. June 19, 2008
This book is a natural follow-up to the two Michael Pollan books, "Omnivore's Dillema" and "In Defense of Food." Joel Salatin nails it home with the "how-to's" of putting into practice these new insights about incorporating locally produced clean food into our diets. It's all about accountability and integrity, as practiced by small farm friendly producers and their products, face-to-face with their customers. For those who take for granted that the grocery store is the only place to buy food, try something different. Find a local farmer's market and let your senses carry you away. Bring home a big bag of cleanly produced locally grown vegetables and have a blast. The aromas, textures, and tastes will startle you. The strawberries actually smell and taste like ripe strawberries, sweet (with no sugar added!). Cut into a fresh cucumber and your nose will be surprised! Food does not have to be trucked from 1500 miles away when it grows just down the road and is so much fresher and more nutritious! Without going on and on, you get the picture. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone. It will inspire you to rediscover your own kitchen and eat at home. It does address some of the politics of small farm producers; but even someone as politic-phobic as myself needs to know what's going on in the world, especially concerning the food on our tables! Happy reading!!
Barbara Holman
 Fair to Middlin' February 14, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
There is some worthwhile information contained in this book, but not presented very well. Most of the book seems to be a rather bitter diatribe by a very disgruntled individual.
SherriL November 5, 2007
This is an Awesome book! It is a must read for anyone who values their own life, the lives of their family and friends/community and last but not least, our future generations and this great world we live in. It affects us all! It is a book that ought to be passed out to anyone and everyone who is involved with food. Enough said...
 jumpy but good advice September 4, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
A book that crams a lot of fact, exposition and commentary into fastfood sort of reading.
Mr. Salatin has excitement in his tone and energy in his thinking. He makes the idea of eating local practical and palatable
My only angst is his tone toward the migrant farm worker (who 'does not speak english'). Has he forgotten that this is part of our history as much as the Pennsylvania Dutch farmer, the Swedish immigrants in Minnesota, the Germans In Wisconsin, etc. ? If he resents cheap labor, it was irrelevant for him to focus on people "who don't speak english" That is a backward anglo rooted sentiment and has nothing to do with sustainable practices and gearing toward a peaceful future for locally responsible consumers and producers
Otherwise, this is a great handbook to use for wiser living.
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