So, PETA recently announced its Sexiest Vegetarians for 2008, as voted for by visitors to its website. The winners were Anthony Kiedis and Leona Lewis, or Abbie Cornish and Xavier Rudd for Australia, in case you missed it.
In her "Trash Talk" blog for The Age online, Michelle Johnson seems to have leapt at the chance to make a couple of snide remarks about vegetarians. I know, I know, it's only about the 200th time I've heard this sort of stuff, but it still rankles me. It rankles me big time!
She begins with, "After having lists for everything from the richest to least attractive celebrities in the past, we have now come to this." Thus setting it up as a complete load of rubbish... and somehow even worse than those other lists.
Johnson continues a few sentences later with, "Now, remind me again why vegetarians should be sexy? Silly me thought the main requirement would be um, not to eat meat. And love animals. Plus, fur is out."
Well. Let's remind her, shall we? Because there are sexy vegetarians as surely as there are sexy mechanics, waiters, lesbians or athletes. Because there are veg*ns (and who else do you suppose was doing most of the voting?) for whom veg*nism in others is very attractive. And yes, because PETA uses celebrities in many of its campaigns; and while even many veg*ns don't always agree with PETA's tactics or stance on particular issues, the organisation could hardly be accused of breaking new ground in showing that largely meaningless celebrity-based faux-news gains attention.
Follow the link, read the piece for yourself if you so desire, and read the vegetarian-bashing comments made below it if you can be bothered. This little veg*n is off to have dinner.
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