PETA has annually hosted a vegetarian hot dog day in the Rayburn HOB courtyard to promote vegetarianism, using bikini clad models to make eating your vegetables sexy.
This year, Congressional staffers protested PETA's treatment of women (and in so doing made a song written by my band 15 years ago seem especially prescient).
To quote the Kentucky Fried Asshole anthem:
"Supermodel supermodel, you're not a piece of meat."
According to the blog Obama Foodorama:
Michael Shanks, Communications Director and Policy Adviser for Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA-15), and six other staffers from four congressional offices contacted PETA to protest the organization's mixture of sex, vegetables and politics that was going on outside of Rayburn House Office Building last Wednesday.
http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/...
Handing out veggie wieners was Playboy model and Maxim regular (#26 on FHM's 100 hottest ladies and multiple winner of the Best Butt award) Vida Guerra.
Guerra is a recent convert to vegetarianism, having recently hawked chicken bacon sandwiches for industrial American obesity maker Burger King.
PETA's performance is a healthier (yet still misogynistic) alternative to the American Meat Institute's Annual Hot Dog day (hot dogs and wieners are exploitative of male genitalia).
The PETA President weighed in, but did not send along a picture of herself eating a hot dog in a bikini:
When contacted for a response, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk called the concerns "rubbish."
“I think that’s the daftest thing I’ve ever heard!" Newkirk said, in a breezy phone message. "Unless these people have never been to a beach or have just moved here from Afghanistan.”
A link to a photo of Ingrid in the raw was easily located on google but was not so easily digested:
http://www.animalwrongs.com/...
Once again proving for me that life imitates art, it's not about what you have in heart, it's what's between your buns.
The debate is real and the science is mixed in terms of locavores, locabutchers, veggies and carnies...I mean carnivores.
Not necessarily, says Gidon Eshel, a Bard College geophysicist who analyzes the energy payoff and environmental impacts of food production. In general, Eshel says, it's true that raw veggies are an excellent nutritional bargain: For every 100 calories of energy put into producing conventional beef, from farm to supermarket shelf, you get only six calories back to eat. Compare that with apples, which yield 110 calories, or raw soy: an amazing 415. In terms of greenhouse gases, switching from a diet that includes red meat to a plants-only one is roughly equivalent to trading in your SUV for a Camry.
But a girl can only eat so much roasted kale before she starts craving protein: tofu, veggie burgers, and the (okay, creepy) occasional piece of fakin' bacon. But coaxing soy into a red-and-white rectangular strip takes work—which is why Eshel believes most veggie burgers are the caloric equivalent of "shooting yourself in the foot." A 2009 study by the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology found that while producing a plate of peas requires a fraction of the energy needed to produce the same number of calories of pork, the energy costs of a pea-burger and a pork chop are about equal.
http://motherjones.com/...
That's all the irony that's fit to print today folks. Whether you enjoy a molded piece of soy, pork byproducts or just plain sausage, be well and remember:
Sex sells.