{"id":960100,"date":"2023-01-17T18:52:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=3b05a2d2a5ca5ab7383b11aece62cb92"},"modified":"2023-01-17T18:52:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:52:24","slug":"dmv-rejects-vegans-request-for-lvtofu-license-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/17\/dmv-rejects-vegans-request-for-lvtofu-license-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"DMV Rejects Vegan\u2019s Request for \u2018LVTOFU\u2019 License Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has rejected Houston resident Catie Cryar\u2019s pro-vegan license plate application for \u201cLVTOFU,\u201d claiming the soybean-celebrating message could be viewed as \u201cvulgar.\u201d In response, Cryar has just submitted an appeal stating that the license plate does not contain profanity and is \u201cdesigned to inspire more people to try tofu.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Texas DMV has the opportunity here to start driving positive change for animals who suffer daily for nothing more than a fleeting taste of their flesh,\u201d says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. \u201cPETA applauds any measure that saves animals\u2019 lives and promotes the kind of tasty, high-quality proteins like tofu that are great for people on the go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only is tofu cheaper than meat, it is packed with protein, contains zero cholesterol, and can lower the risk of suffering from heart disease, diabetes, various types of cancer, and numerous other health problems. Every person who might have been inspired to go vegan by the \u201cLVTOFU\u201d message on Cryar\u2019s license plate would have saved nearly 200 animals every year and dramatically shrunk their own carbon footprint. And tofu has never caused a pandemic, but SARS, swine flu, bird flu, and COVID-19 all stemmed from confining and killing animals for food.<\/p>\n

A driver who sought approval for the very same license plate in Maine got the green light, but DMV offices in Colorado, Florida, Tennessee, and Virginia have all turned down requests to proclaim the joy of soy.<\/p>\n

PETA\u2014whose motto reads, in part, that \u201canimals are not ours to eat\u201d\u2014opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org<\/strong><\/a> or follow the group on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, Facebook<\/strong><\/a>, or Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

The post DMV Rejects Vegan\u2019s Request for \u2018LVTOFU\u2019 License Plate<\/a> appeared first on PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

This post was originally published on Animal Rights and Campaign News | PETA<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has rejected Houston resident Catie Cryar\u2019s pro-vegan license plate application for \u201cLVTOFU,\u201d claiming the soybean-celebrating message could be viewed as \u201cvulgar.\u201d In response, Cryar has just submitted an appeal stating that the license plate does not contain profanity and is \u201cdesigned to inspire more people to try tofu.\u201d… Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

The post DMV Rejects Vegan\u2019s Request for \u2018LVTOFU\u2019 License Plate<\/a> appeared first on PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960101,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960100\/revisions\/960101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}