Lady Gaga, a meat eater who made headlines for sporting a dress made of real meat at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, is considering wearing a dress made entirely of lettuce to promote vegetarianism.
PETA Asks Gaga Not to Eat Meat During India Stay
Gaga will perform Oct. 30, 2011 after the inaugural Formula One car race in New Delhi, India, and has been asked by PETA India to honor the country's reverence for animals by not eating meat during her India visit and to pose for photos in a lettuce gown.
"If she agrees, we'll make her a dress entirely of lettuce and held together by pins and threads," said Sachin Bangera of PETA India. "It will be a full length gown, and we'll make sure it looks sexy."
The lettuce dress could take 5-6 hours to make, and would have to constructed leaf by leaf on Gaga's body.
"Someone will be on hand to spray the lettuce with water so that it doesn't wilt," Bangera said.
Gaga, 25, has not yet responded to PETA India's request.
Animal-Rights Groups Slammed Gaga For Meat Dress
In September 2010, Lady Gaga was condemned by PETA for wearing the garish meat dress, which the animal-rights organization says promoted violence against animals. In its statement PETA said:
"No matter how beautifully it is presented, flesh from a tortured animal is flesh from a tortured animal. Meat represents bloody violence and suffering.
Meat is the decomposing flesh of an abused animal who didn't want to die, and after being under the TV lights it would smell like the rotting flesh that it is and likely be crawling with maggots. Not too attractive, really."
In response, Lady Gaga, who is not a vegetarian, insisted she meant no disrespect to vegetarians, saying, "As you know, I am the most judgment-free human being on the earth.
"However, it has many interpretations, but for me this evening, if we don't stand up for what we believe in and if we don't fight for our rights, pretty soon we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our own bones. And I am not a piece of meat."
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