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If you love guns, Whitetail deer, or even just want everyone to know you're a horse enthusiast, Virginia's the place for you. With 180 designs for personalized and commemorative license plates, the commonwealth caters to drivers of all sorts (well, except advocates of traditional marriage, it seems). But while Virginians who love hunting things have long been able to get a license plate celebrating that fact, vegetarians have largely been left without a way to tell drivers on I-66, "Hey, I love broccoli!" Until now.
The Richmond Vegetarian Festival, Vegan Action and Vegetarian Society of Richmond are joining forces to propose a plate design promoting the vegetarian diet. They need 350 prepaid applications for the plate before the end of November, though, to get the proposal to the General Assembly and DMV for approval. If you're interested, all the info is here. If there were enough people interested in a "Parrotheads" plate, there must be enough vegetarians in Virginia willing to show their pride on a license plate.
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DC has very few of these types of plates. Just another example of how the city leaves money on the table.
Try telling that to the National Association of Black Scuba Divers.
Touche!
that's why you research things before making assertions! good looking-up skills there, dues!
The only hunting one I see is fox hunting. I can't believe they got 350 people together for that.
GUNS!
You'd be surprised at the number of fox hunters...
Never been to a Fox hunt? It's fun to watch, and an excuse to drink early in the morning. Beats the crap out of 'necks with rifles.
Fox hunting is acctually xtremely popular amingst the wealthy Middleburg, VA set.
I don't see the need to state "For the Animals" on the plate. Some Vegetarians just don't eat meat.
It sounds better than "just don't like bacon", or "trying to lose weight." I would be interested in meeting some animal loathing vegetarians, just for the novelty.
If Virginia offered an "I [heart] the Chickpeas at Kabob Palace" license plate (and I was a resident), I'd so be there.
who thinks we should start up a collection to get one for monkey's car?
I don't think Monkey would be too interested in a vegetarian tag. On the other hand, if VA offered something along the lines of “Poo-flinging trebuchets, helper monkeys in diapers, and Bingo Bombs for all,” I think he'd be at the head of a very long line.
yeah, i didn't think he'd really want one, but i thought it could be one hell of a prank...