PETA has announced this year's winners of their annual "Sexiest Vegetarian" contest. This year's hottest plant-eaters? Tonight Show band leader Kevin Eubanks and American Idol-crooner-turned Grammy-winner Carrie Underwood (who won in 2005 as well, but dropped to runner-up last year).
This year's runners up include our favorite babe teenage sleuth Kristen Bell (who knocked Underwood from the top spot last year), Spider-Man 3's Bryce Dallas Howard, the studly Joaquin Phoenix, hottie Milo Ventimiglia of Heroes, and rocker/actor Jared Leto.
Says Underwood: "I quit eating beef when I was about thirteen. I do it because I really love animals and it just makes me sad ... I don't like to watch commercials where they have meat. It weirds me out."
Profound. Anyway, way to not eat animals, sexy celebs. But, uhm, what about the blogebrities of Grist, eh? We demand a recount.
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Delay And Deny Posted 9:08 am
27 Jun 2007
Remember the great Stevie Wonder album "The Secret Life of Plants"?
Well, what if it's true? I mean, just because you can't talk to a fern, doesn't mean its stupid.
Why is it that mobile life forms, that consume other things are inherently less worthy than photosynthesis using green life?
In fact, since a plant makes its own energy from the sun, is it not a higher being than a cow?
John Bailo
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FuriaFubar Posted 2:53 pm
27 Jun 2007
All the Best,
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caniscandida Posted 10:10 pm
27 Jun 2007
I have no problems at all with Milo Ventimiglia; but Jared Leto is surely one of the most beautiful male faces ever put in front of a camera. The profoundly flawed "Alexander" is not to be recommended, though there are some beautiful details in it, including the bodies of the Macedonians after all that work in the gym; and the homoerotic relationship between Alexander (Colin Farrell, another great beauty) and Hephaestion (Jared Leto) is frankly put right out front -- though of course the only steamy sex scene is between Alexander and the Bactrian princess Roxana. But anyway, never mind, do not waste your time and money on this distressing movie.
On the other hand, "Requiem for a Dream," with Jared Leto doing the male lead, improbably playing a strung-out Brooklyn Jew, is a minor masterpiece. Ellen Burstyn, a treasure of American theater, plays his mother, and her performance alone is worth the price of admission. Jared of course does not look his finest in this movie, but there can be no denying that his self-injection scene is one of the most horrifying in movie history.
Anyway, the moral of all this is, Good for PETA for reminding us that not eating animals is a good way to live.
Furia, it is indeed difficult to know, really, how the animals who gave their flesh or milk or eggs had been treated. We are provisionally satisfied with claims of "organic" for dairy products, and "organic, free-range" for eggs and the chicken breast and turkey breast that we get for Little Dog. But we know there is more to it than that.
The PETA line, of course, is that there is simply no "humane" way of raising animals in order to exploit them physically, especially in order to slaughter them. Therefore it is very simple, we should all be vegan. I approve of that argument, and hope that some day we all come around to agreeing with it. But meanwhile, we have to proceed one step at a time.
Chickens are our cousins!
So are other sensitive animals!
Enough is enough!
No more factory farms!
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Hmdowd6 Posted 2:45 am
28 Jun 2007
And people, esp. Americans, tend to consume too much meat and in general use too much energy.
But on a sidenote, I am extremely in support of PETA's campaign (which is rare). I LOVE that they are making vegetarianism sexy. That is the way to really change our culture.
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atreyger Posted 2:51 am
28 Jun 2007
MMMMMMM
leaf and twig fed, organic, free range venison tenderloin...
MMMMMMMHMM
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Delay And Deny Posted 4:47 am
28 Jun 2007
I'm forming PETAL:
People for the humanane Treatment of Leafy things.
Also, when you harvest crops, do you know how many insects are crushed or dismembered?
How about torn legs, antennae and thoraxes?
Aren't ants animals?
Or do ecologists only preserve things that look like Snoopy?
John Bailo
You Read It Here First
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blueberrysushi Posted 4:47 am
28 Jun 2007
I think it's about setting boundaries and making priorities. Concentrated feed lots are nasty, I think we can all agree to that. Eating lower on the food chain is a more efficient use of land, nothing surprising there. But a good steak every once in a while is priceless, and there are really good people out there raising cattle.
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blueberrysushi Posted 4:57 am
28 Jun 2007
I know you were sort of kidding, but come on.
Also, wouldn't "People for the Exceptional Treatment of Awe-inspiring Leaflife" be better? Or at least something that approaches the acronym (PETAL).
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Pangolin Posted 6:50 am
28 Jun 2007
Women will go vegetarian when it becomes an absolute for scooping an A-list provider, er, husband.
Men will go vegetarian when PETA potlucks have more hot babes than the bars.
I'm not holding my breath. Now where's that free range lamb sausage....mmmmm.
Put the Carbon Back
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caniscandida Posted 9:54 pm
12 Mar 2008
As for eggplants up the butt, well, that is not everyone's style, but who knows?, one can always learn, if one has an open -- I was going to say "mind."
It might well be worth it to go for a $4000/hour session with a "garden specialist."
"Hello. My name is Eve. I grow lots of things in my garden. Would you like to try? ... "
Whoa! Goodbye Albany!
Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.
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amazingdrx Posted 12:58 am
13 Mar 2008
Of course these would have to be grown organically so as to prevent toxic compounds from being introduced into delicate membranes! That could really help organic growers, 10% of the crop sold as sex toys.
I'm calling my patent attorney!
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