Thadrax

That is not entirely correct. Look for example at Switzerland.

Sure, there are limits, you probably won't have a train station at every farm 50 miles from everything else, but you also don't need large cities to make it work at all.

Another similar thing that I hate are countries that require bicycles to have pedals and be power-assist only.

This is fair I think. In Europe, to be classified as a bicycle, you have power/speed limits and assist requirement. However you get to ride on paths that are designed for bicycle speeds (often adjacent or mixed with pedestrians), don't require any license or training, can go against traffic in many one way streets etc. It makes sense to limit the use of all that stuff to bicycle like vehicles.

However you can have other types of electric bikes, they just aren't bicycles by law any more, which makes sense in my opinion. Want to go scooter/motorcycle speeds and twist throttle and all that stuff, you also need the correct license, insurance and have to drive on the road that is designed for higher speeds.

Granted, one could argue about the specifics of the distinction, but in my opinion there definitely needs to be a distinction in the law and you have to draw the line somewhere.

Local? Probably before the paint was even dry. Other people will probably still be scratching their heads when they plow full speed into a wall because from my experience slowing down when in doubt seems to drop in priority lower every year.

Ist mir absolut unverständlich. Klar, man darf über die Aktionen von mir aus denken was man will, aber wenn man sich mal umschaut, die Welt brennt und viele Leute denken trotzdem ein paar Leute die sich auf die Strasse kleben sind das Problem und ein paar Legislaturperioden CxU wählen bringt alles wieder in Ordnung? Irgendwann müsste doch auch der Letzte kapieren dass Finger in die Ohren stecken und laut lalala singen irgendwann nicht mehr das richtige Mittel sein kann.

French cars regularly had sometimes strange looking but often quite useful quirks.

Yes. Even the legally allowed methods aren't exactly great and lack of supervision regularly leads to much worse conditions than even that.

All you can do by changing your diet from meat to plant is a gradual change. You kill less and do less harm, which is great. But you still kill and do harm, that’s just how these things are.

True. The difference is between calling it good enough halfway or going as far as possible though. So they do have a point, although I agree that (like in every other group of people) there are some that are a little over enthusiastic and in danger or turning people away instead of encouraging them.

If you look at the moral side of things, vegetarian recipes still often require products from the animal industry. If you look closer at the ways animals in those industrial settings are treated, it can be hard to stomach. We like to believe the images of happy cows on mountain pastures and chickens running around freely on a farm, but the reality looks very differently in the overwhelming majority.

Plus there is still the environmental issue, using food to raise animals to produce food is still a lossy process.

Eggs, milk, butter aren’t visually obvious.

Especially since so many products contain stuff like milk powder etc., which is insanely cheap due to being almost a waste product of the animal industry.

2: eggs from uncaged hens and raised outdoors, easy to find.

We have similar categories, however our laws leave a lot to be desired. Apparently a huge indoor shed with a tiny door to a small outdoor area qualifies for this category because in theory, the hens could take a look outside.

I hope, your regulations are better worded than ours.

Which doesn't really matter because people don't put milk in their coffee to add x amounts of calories. So in almost all cases, they will use the same amount in volume/weight.

And a lot of other plant based milk alternatives have an even lower environmental impact, the difference between your average milk and milk alternative will be even bigger.

this won’t be solved by individual action

True. However as long as a large potion of the population goes totally berserk if any politician even thinks about doing anything sensible that would however have an impact on the price of that next burger, it will be very hard to do something on a non individual level.