“Perhaps the biggest disappointment in my country right now is how often folks ask "is it legal?" I don't know whether to be angry at the regulation bureaucracy, the society that clamored for that bureaucracy--oh, right, it's called oversight-- or the cowed people who think we need to ask permission to pee.

What happened to our rugged individualism? What happened to freedom, to independent agency? To civil disobedience, courage, and proceeding with what is right and noble regardless of its being blessed by the powers that be?

The thing to remember is that government regulators are not agents of "yes;" they are agents of "no." In my years of dealing
with them, the one thing that seems consistent is that "no" is the default position.”

-Salatin