Salatin is an amazing farmer and has political stances that manage to offend just about anyone. He feels that all drugs and substances should be legalized because the government has no right to say what we can and can't put in our bodies, quite honesty i agree. That being said he doesn't allow alcohal or even caffein on his farm. and yes he does shoot most wild animals that venture near his livestock, but so would I if i relied on my pastured chickens for income and the predators kept eating them. As for being "to the right of Dick Cheyny" Salatin is all over the board politicly but at least when he shoots a gun it hits what he's aiming for. In several books he does compare abortion to industrial beef farming, because in industrial beef farming if a cow is sent to a feedlot pregnant rather than allow the cow to birth the calf they allow her to carry it several gestation periods to quickly gain weight and then abort the fetus. His problems with government run public lands and national forests is that the government will lease the land to logging companies for ridiculously cheap prices to bring the price of wood down, thus discouraging anybody who owns a small parcel of land from using sustainable logging practices. I could go on and on, and I don't always agree with Salatin but he always makes a good point.
