Swiss town denies woman’s Swiss passport for being an annoying vegan

[PeteS in CA]

Swiss town denies woman’s Swiss passport for being an annoying vegan

Vegans are still annoying, according to the European lords of neutrality, Switzerland.

A Dutch woman, who despite being fluent in Swiss-German and having children with Swiss citizenship, has been denied citizenship herself for her “annoying” campaigning.

Nancy Holten, 42, moved to Switzerland when she was eight. Despite her long residency in the country, her citizenship has been denied due to her butting heads with locals over animal rights issues, according to The Independent.

Holten says that the Swiss town’s tradition of putting bells around cows’ necks and the piglet racing tradition are against her views.

Lecturing Swiss people against cows and Swiss Germans against pigs seems a rather fruitless endeavor.

[Fishrrman]

Sounds like at least some of the Swiss still have their heads on straight.

Send her back to the Netherlands.

[mountaineer]

Holten says that the Swiss town’s tradition of putting bells around cows’ necks and the piglet racing tradition are against her views.

That is annoying.

[roamer_1]

Swiss town denies woman’s Swiss passport for being an annoying vegan

Lecturing Swiss people against cows and Swiss Germans against pigs seems a rather fruitless endeavor.

No less so than Americans.
Jussayin.

And being a Dutchman, steak and sausage are not unheard of, like any of the Celto-Germanic lands... We still have Gehakt (a Dutch meatloaf) nearly every week... Accompanied by maus, a mashed potato with kale thing, that no doubt the vegans would like better, sans butter and gravy - Wherein I would opine, what then is the point?

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

Swiss town denies woman’s Swiss passport for being an annoying vegan

Lecturing Swiss people against cows and Swiss Germans against pigs seems a rather fruitless endeavor.

Opening that link I get nothing but a little animation, but isn't this several years old?  Or did it happen again (same woman?)?

[PeteS in CA]

Opening that link I get nothing but a little animation, but isn't this several years old?  Or did it happen again (same woman?)?

It worked for me just now, I got the article. The article was posted online "Roberto Wakerell-Cruz, 4 days ago", but she was turned down for citizenship 4 years ago. It looks like she's making a second try.

Point taken, @roamer_1, the Dutch are well known for their dairy products. Maybe their cowbells are quieter. Sausage is pretty universal in EuroLand, being a way of preserving meat in a time when there was no refrigeration. But German folk are well known for their wurst.

Vegans are different from vegetarians. Unlike, for example, Indian vegetarians, vegans use zero animal products - no dairy, no leather/fur, no honey. (now I want curry, sigh, but Indian or Thai ...)

[roamer_1]

Point taken, @roamer_1, the Dutch are well known for their dairy products. Maybe their cowbells are quieter. Sausage is pretty universal in EuroLand, being a way of preserving meat in a time when there was no refrigeration. But German folk are well known for their wurst.

@PeteS in CA
Yes, I know... As a Frieslander, we sold em a lot of Frisian beef... Imagine my surprise to find out my ancient kin punched cows, just like me. The blood will out, I reckon... Not that I am bad at building dams and channeling water either... 

Vegans are different from vegetarians. Unlike, for example, Indian vegetarians, vegans use zero animal products - no dairy, no leather/fur, no honey. (now I want curry, sigh, but Indian or Thai ...)

Both of which are a diametric opposite of me... I have the gear to dress entirely in leather, wear mocs most of the time, and as a hunter and trapper, never met an egg, meat, or honey I didn't like.... I like greens just fine, but that's a side, not a meal...

S'alright. All the more for me. 

Look! Steak with salad!

[Wingnut]

Opening that link I get nothing but a little animation, but isn't this several years old?  Or did it happen again (same woman?)?

Switzerland has a law which takes residents consideration in a passport application. Holten’s first attempt to become a citizen was made in 2015, when she was approved by local authorities but rejected by the vast majority in the resident’s vote–144 out of 206 declined her naturalization.

On her second try in 2107 she was denied again.  But as they say the 3rd time is the charm.  In 2018 she was naturalized.

https://www.thelocal.ch/20180328/dutch-anti-cowbell-campaigner-finally-handed-swiss-citizenship-nancy-holten

[Cyber Liberty]

It worked for me just now, I got the article. The article was posted online "Roberto Wakerell-Cruz, 4 days ago", but she was turned down for citizenship 4 years ago. It looks like she's making a second try.

Point taken, @roamer_1, the Dutch are well known for their dairy products. Maybe their cowbells are quieter. Sausage is pretty universal in EuroLand, being a way of preserving meat in a time when there was no refrigeration. But German folk are well known for their wurst.

Vegans are different from vegetarians. Unlike, for example, Indian vegetarians, vegans use zero animal products - no dairy, no leather/fur, no honey. (now I want curry, sigh, but Indian or Thai ...)

Vegans are also required to bellyache about everybody who eat delicious meat.  It's in the rule book "How to be a Vegan!"

[roamer_1]

Garlic butter... Can you see it?
You KNOW that's garlic butter, right?
Aw man!

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

Garlic butter... Can you see it?
You KNOW that's garlic butter, right?
Aw man!

How are we supposed to be able to tell when the butter is smothered in vegetables?

[roamer_1]

How are we supposed to be able to tell when the butter is smothered in vegetables?

LOL! That's right. They are a little heavy on the salad.

 
 

[mountaineer]

I took a one-day class at the Culinary Institute of America on Swiss cooking a few years ago. As I recall, we did a lamb stew and fondue, among other NON-VEGAN dishes. Mmmm.