PETA uses sex to promote animal rights in Silicon Valley

Hedda Lettue, Romaine Green, Emerald Bibb

SAN JOSE - PETA's Lettuce Ladies came to Silicon Valley this week and bombed using cheesecake to sell veggie dogs in the 15th Fattest City in America.

If it sounds a little smarmy, well, maybe it was.

PETA came to the right place, but perhaps at the wrong time, using the wrong approach.

When you have a mortgage that's twice what your home is worth and a boss holding a pink slip over your head, working and finding work to pay the piper doesn't give you a whole lot of time to get your MoJo working.

So women wearing nothing but lettuce bikinis in front of San Jose's City Hall are more likely to give Silicon Valley libidos a lift than they are to foster eating right and saving farm animals.

For guys anyway. Lettuce Gentlemen were nowhere to be seen. (See Broccoli Boys)

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and, apparently, also for the Objectification of Women (OW!), purposely use women in provocative outfits to attract attention in order to sell their cause.Enter the Lettuce Ladies AKA Vegan Vixens.

Slurp.

"Oh, the best thing about it (going vegan) is that you've got so much more stamina," says one buxom VV.

Save the animals. Feast your eyes on babes.

Fresh produce, with a little female eye-candy on the side.

The somewhat twisted point was that Silicon Valley is too fat, according to its No. 15 ranking by Men's magazine, and eating meat is part of the problem, according to PETA.

Meat consumption is linked to heart disease, strokes, certain types of cancer, and even impotence (hence the chick buffet), and vegetarians are, on average, significantly fitter and trimmer than meat-eaters are.

Also factory-farmed animals suffer and the environmental damage caused by meat production is a larger source of greenhouse-gas emissions than driving to McDonald's and beyond.

"San Jose residents' love affair with barbecue and fried chicken could be making them fat--and literally killing them," says Lettuce Lady Lindsay Rajt.

"We hope that the city's men and women will start trimming their waistlines, and the fastest and easiest way to do that is to leave animals off their plates," LL Rajt added.

Local news radio said the message didn't fly.

"Most of the city workers our KLIV reporter saw coming out of the building noticed the young ladies in their lettuce-looking swimwear, but were not inclined to change their lunch plans," according to a KLIV report.

SV to PETA: Lettuce alone.

Wait until the circus comes to town later this summer.

Did you hear the one about PETA making George Clooney sweat-flavored tofu?

Oh, yeah!