Help Make Vegetarian License Plates a Reality!

My home state of Virginia has a program that allows small groups to create custom license plate designs. Several groups that I work with in Richmond decided to pool together to create one to celebrate and promote vegetarianism. The vegetarian license plates would be available in a year or so, but only if the groups get 350 pre-paid applications to show that there is a demand. The deadline for the submission is now only two weeks away and at this point they still don't have enough applications. If you or anyone you know is a vegetarian in Virginia please encourage them to get the plate, it's only a $10 commitment (refunded if the plates don't get made). All the details can be found on the Veggie Plates site HERE.

International Vegetarian Union

The ad reads "Vegetables are all your body needs"

Enough to make you quit the meat?






Advertising Agency: JWT Kuwait
Creative Directors: Alessandro Antonini, Mark Makhoul
Photographer: Tommy Morris
Retoucher: Nabil Kamara
Published: August 2009




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Customize your own Vegetarian License Plate

The folks at PETA are helping spread the word about the Virginia Vegetarian License Plate with a fun little custom plate generator:

EAT ME
Create your own vegetarian license plate for Web posting-and if you're a Virginia resident, you can apply for a real one!

More folks are needed to sign up for the plates if it's to become a reality (It's only a $10 commitment!) Info and forms can be found HERE.

Virginia's Vegetarian License Plate in the News

The proposed vegetarian license plate I designed has been getting some press including this recent segment on the local news. However, a lot more pre-orders are needed to make it a reality, so if you're a Virginia driver and want to help out, get the details HERE (it's only a $10 commitment!)

Vegetarian License Plates in Virginia

As part of the work I do each year with the Richmond Vegetarian Festival I was asked to design a custom license plate for vegetarians by Vegan Action and the Vegetarian Society of Richmond.

They need 350 Virginia residents to sign up for these plates before the end of this year for them to go into production, after which time souvenir plates will be available for purchase to non-residents as well. The additional cost is only $10 (which needs to be prepaid, but it will be refunded if enough signatures aren't collected). The process takes a while, so the plates, once approved, will be available in April 2011 at the earliest. If you or someone you know lives in Virginia and is interested in signing up for these follow the directions below or for more information send a note to VeggiePlates AT live.com:

Submit VSA-10 (completed) with $10.00 application fee
($20.00 fee for personalized plates) to:

Richmond Vegetarian Festival
P.O. Box 6692
Richmond, VA 23230-0692

Checks should be made payable to ’ÄúVegan Action’Äù

Vegetarianism vs. Global Warming

A recent New York Times article "Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change" discusses how a U.N. report from last year which stated that commercial livestock produced more greenhouse gases than all forms of transportation combined, is being used by animal rights groups to further their cause:

"When that report came out, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and other groups expected their environmental counterparts to immediately hop on the 'Go Veggie!' bandwagon, but that did not happen. 'Environmentalists are still pointing their fingers at Hummers and S.U.V.’Äôs when they should be pointing at the dinner plate,' said Matt A. Prescott, manager of vegan campaigns for PETA."

Read the entire article HERE.

Thanks Jenny!