Everything I want to Do is Illegal

Quarantine Book 17 

I will eventually include this on my Corona Virus book list. But it is "good enough" to get its own page. 

Joel Salatin is a quirky farmer not too far from us in Virginia. My husband actually stopped by and toured his farm when we were looking for our own farm back in 2014. 

I read his Family Friendly Farming a few years ago. His writing is plagued by editorially missed errors, but despite the fact that he wished he would have let me read his book before it went to press, you simply can't stop reading. 

I found this review on Amazon which very accurately summarized what you this book is about: 

I grew up and live in the suburbs of a major city. As it turns out I knew very little about farming before reading this book and have learned that what I knew was incorrect or very naive.

This book isn’t about the details of how to farm but provides great detail about the obstacles set in the way of a farmer by the bureaucracy which is allegedly helping them.

This same bureaucracy is tasked with ensuring we have a clean food supply but doesn’t seem to know much beyond what the powerful industrial food concerns tells them. “Surprisingly” the regulations favor those concerns over actual healthy practices.

This is a must read book - it’s very likely the meat you’ve eaten recently was fed chicken droppings - with the blessing of the USDA.

I know I don’t have the temperament to be a farmer but this book makes me wish I did.

Salatin explains the "purpose" for this book early in chapter 1: 

I grew up and live in the suburbs of a major city. As it turns out I knew very little about farming before reading this book and have learned that what I knew was incorrect or very naive.

This book isn’t about the details of how to farm but provides great detail about the obstacles set in the way of a farmer by the bureaucracy which is allegedly helping them.

This same bureaucracy is tasked with ensuring we have a clean food supply but doesn’t seem to know much beyond what the powerful industrial food concerns tells them. “Surprisingly” the regulations favor those concerns over actual healthy practices.

This is a must read book - it’s very likely the meat you’ve eaten recently was fed chicken droppings - with the blessing of the USDA.

I know I don’t have the temperament to be a farmer but this book makes me wish I did.