For more than five years, I’ve been writing about the many many (many) serious and not-so-serious reasons to adopt a plant based diet, and yet the majority of the world continues to eat animals. From time to time I wondered why that was, but it wasn’t made clear to me until I got a note from Dagda Samildanc that explained the one thing dead animals can do that plants can’t: they can get your car classified as a hearse, which lowers the vehicle registration fee by $200. That’s the way of the world in New Zealand, where a woman recently tried it out, claiming her car was a non-commercial hearse because she carried dead chickens home from the supermarket. And it worked. So there’s a fun game for you this weekend: as traffic goes by, speculate how many hearses are on the road. Remember, it’s not just vegan hyperbole, it’s a matter of NZ law. Link.
