“Riding a bike for some has more cachet than driving a Porsche. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende sometimes rides to work, as do lawyers, CEOs (Lars Rebien Sorensen, chief executive of Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, is famous for his on-bike persona) and members of parliament, often with empty children’s seats in back. Dutch Prince Maurits van Oranje is often seen riding around town. “It’s a good way to keep in touch with people on the streets,” says Tjeerd Herrema, deputy mayor of Amsterdam.”
It’s a fact: Bike culture is winning out over car culture.
soon vegan culture will win out over the culture that mistreats, kills, and eats animals.
Over my dead body.
I’d like to some day live in an area where biking is the predominant mode of local transportation.
From the same article:
“In Denmark, the tax for buying a new car is as high as 180%. Drivers must be over 18 to get a license, and the tests are so hard that most people fail the first few times.”
Punishing car owners is popular all over. Even in the US with our ridiculously low-priced fuel car owners are forced to pay for bicycle lanes, mass transit, and other ammenties. Just another sin tax like those on alcohol and tobacco.
Yeah lets see. If it gets to bad I will just kill the vegans and eat them. Meat was a GIANT part in evolution it allowed our brains to develop much more and grow. Animals kill each other all the time why shouldn’t we? Your saying a shark that eats a fish is mistreating it? I don’t know how I am mistreating animals by killing and eating them to live. It also keeps the population of animals in check (something that humans need). Yeah vegan culture at least I think will not win out. It seems at least to me and what I see trendy and everybody knows what happens to trends they sooner or later get dropped.
People always conveinently forget that part. 
Meat eaters are sad, unhealthy, die much earlier than vegetarians.
They’re bodies don’t have enough strength to carry around that swollen brain.
That’s why they need cars, and that’s why everyone punishes the car culture.
First of all, saying meat eaters are sad and unhealthy is just plain ignorant. Does “sad” mean that you see them inferior to you since they aren’t vegan like yourself? If not, I guess your saying that there depressed because they eat meat:o . (I wonder if that means bears are just misunderstood?)
This one really made me question your ability to think…“UNHEALTHY”. That is such a rediculous statement that It made me question your ability to think properly. Healthy is such a broad statement that cannot simply be defined by ones eating habits. It’s like saying,“That guy must be smart cause he wears glasses”. It’s not like people who eat meat are lazy, do-nothing-but-eat-animals-and-torture-them- people. Being health has to do with your physical conditioning and most of all mental conditioning.
I’ll refrain from going on and on about how idiotic and pro-vegan that your statements are, but let me say this. If eating tofu and plants the rest of my life will keep me in diapers and nursing homes for an extra decade, then by all means…let me go grab my steak.
Btw, I don’t know how it is where you live, but the vegans I see look very pale,sickly, and have arms the size of twigs.
Not the ones I know. They look like normal people. And most of them are pretty cute at that.
Also, veganism is by NO means idiotic. If you do it properly, it’s the healthiest diet in the world. Both for you and the animal whose life is taken to satisfy someone’s taste-buds.
But to get back on topic, I really hope that when gas gets too pricey people will start riding bikes everywhere and actually dig it. It’s really awesome.
Better for the environment and better for your health.
In NYC, they all look like SUMO wrestlers and football players.
Watch out for the Vegan Youth Gangs!!!
Totally. Most don’t look strong enough to even pedal a bike up a tiny hill.
Do you even know any vegans?
My friend of mine is a vegan and he can pick me up with one hand.
I’m fairly weak cuz I don’t work out. It’s not about diet, it’s about working out.
It’s true.
Just as we know after a person really knows 3 gay/lesbians, their homophobia vanishes, after he knows 3 vegans, his veganophobia will vanish, and he might just become one!
We are just as healthy if not more. Many vegans/vegetarians have a problem with getting all that they need or so I am told. We die earlier? Any proof? I have a 98yr grandma that eats bread fried in pig fat so it can’t be all that bad. Also who wants the last 10 years or so anyways sitting in a nursing home and stuff like that. If steak will prevent that I need to eat more than I do now.
Yeah where are the vegan body builders/ strength trainers?..
No and no. Not everybody punishes the car culture. If it were up to me every man woman and child would own a military hummer (stripped of weapons and such) and drive excessively guzzling gas none of that sissy bio fuel only fossil!
Your granny is the exception. Science proves you very wrong.
And it’s prolly all that meat you eat that makes you so damn aggressive, driving hummers and bombing everyone and using everyone’s oil, all the grain that goes to make a pound of beef could feed 10 families, who starve, cuz you fed the family food to the cow!
Stop playing like you’re HOMER simpson.
No not personaly, but have seen some.
Working out is half the battle. Your body needs things like protein to make muscle. So yes it is in fact about diet. Talk with any strength trainer they will tell you diet plays a humongous part. Seriously you should eat certian foods before and after working out.
Balony!!
Connor can pick me up with one hand…
And he’s cuter then any meat-eaters that I know! And that counts for more then strength ever could!!
He is pretty buff tho…
I knew she was. Meat doesn’t make you aggressive to start. Hell I would be pissed if all I ate were sprouts and peanut butter… hahaha… Is there a problem with this? I really don’t see one. In this world if you want to live (for the most part) you can. I realize there are exceptions, but most people are poor because they are to f*cking lazy to get a job. If every homeless person in the usa disappeared it would be a better place.(I know this is not the only place with problems and all that jazz) If somebody is not willing to work and provide for themselves they don’t deserve the lick dog s%it from my shoe.
Lastly I am not playing like I am HOMER simpson.
So your body can make something from nothing?