RIP Antiwar Farmer and Author Wendell Berry
September 1, 2026
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Writes Ginny Garner:
“We seek to preserve peace by fighting a war, or to advance freedom by subsidizing dictatorships, or to ‘win the hearts and minds of the people’ by poisoning their crops and burning their villages and confining them in concentration camps; we seek to uphold the ‘truth’ of our cause with lies, or to answer conscientious dissent with threats and slurs and intimidations. . . . I have come to the realization that I can no longer imagine a war that I would believe to be either useful or necessary. I would be against any war.” – Wendell Berry, “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam” during the Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft on February 10, 1968 at the University of Kentucky.
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Polyface Farm’s Joel Salatin paid tribute to his friend and mentor Wendell Berry, the pro-peace farmer and writer and sustainable agriculture advocate and environmentalist activist. Berry passed away on August 31.
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