TICKERS TO GET ACTION

The fuel that powers action in the coronavirus pandemic is the daily ticker. Of course, the Dow Jones Industrial average has had a ticker for a long time, and that of course, stimulates investment response.

Read More
joel salatin Comments
OFFENSE VS. DEFENSE

Today I want to introduce you to a functional medical doctor, Dr. Justin Marchegiani whose podcasts were recommended to me by one of our former apprentices.  I've fallen in love with this guy.  I highly recommend you look at a couple of his presentations.  They ain't on the news.

Read More
joel salatin Comments
I DON'T WANT ANY MONEY

The stimulus plan, as it's known, is far too generic to be beneficial.  I've talked to numerous economist-type friends and none can tell me definitively what all this sudden money out of thin air will do.  Normally, that's a recipe for inflation.

Read More
joel salatin Comments
NEW PANIC:  MEAT SHORTAGE

With the closure of the 3,700-employee Smithfield pork processing facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota due to more than 200 employees testing positive for coronavirus, a new fear is building:  are we going to run out of meat?  Or food?  I mean, toilet paper is one thing; bacon is quite another.

Read More
joel salatin Comments
MILITANT LANGUAGE

Digesting more and more perspective from friends around the world regarding the coronavirus, and having Easter weekend to reflect on things, I'd like to pose another perspective about COVID-19.  As you listen to the official language surrounding this disease, the militant language is palpable:  it's an enemy, we're at war with the virus, we must fight until we win, let's defeat this horrible enemy.

Read More
joel salatin Comments
FUTURE EMPLOYMENT

As the unemployment numbers pile up, I've been thinking lately about the realignment of vocations post-coronavirus. Like you, I've seen projections of anywhere from 20-30 percent unemployment, which of course would rival the Great Depression of 1929.

Read More
joel salatin Comments
REAL COWS TO THE RESCUE

 In a wonderful post on the Sacred Cow blog, Lauren Stine makes a great point about fake meat versus real meat during this coronavirus shopping spree.  I've seen a few articles and pictures noting that the supermarket meat counters were not out of fake meat; they were out of real meat.

Read More
QUESTIONING THE NARRATIVE

What if the story is false? About coronavirus? Can you imagine being the first guy to say "the world is round?" Or that slavery is wrong? Or that there are beings smaller than we can see called germs, not ghosts? Or that hydrogenated vegetable oil is so bad nobody should ever have any of it, ever?

Read More
ABSURDITIES

Folks, we're moving into some absurdities.  The biggest one was last week when Anthony Fauci, the apparent anointed czar of infectious disease and chief of policy regarding the coronavirus, said that we should stay in the present lockdown, no travel, non-essential business closing situation until not a single case of coronavirus exists.

Read More