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PETA and Playboy Playmates Team up for National Hot Dog Day
By
Erin Zimmer
Published Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Want to see more photos from Washington events and parties? Click here for Washingtonian.com's photo slideshow page. What were two Playboy playmates—wearing nothing but strategically-placed lettuce leaves—doing earlier today outside the House of Representatives' Rayburn building?
Besides handing out free veggie dogs with reps from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), the self-proclaimed "Lettuce Ladies" were on the Hill to counter National Hot Dog Day. Inside Rayburn, the American Meat Institute celebrated the occasion with assorted Major League baseball sluggers and congressmen.
"We’re not exclusive like them. PETA is friends with anyone,” said the organization’s campaign coordinator Mike Brazell (a five-year vegetarian and three-year vegan). He was generous, encouraging lobbyists and families to take “two, three or four” Yves brand veggie dogs, which he claims are the tastiest vegan-friendly frank.
So what’s in the plastic-looking "dog"? Good question. Like the Boca Burger, the alternative meat attempts to taste like beef, not veggies. There's soy protein and wheat gluten for structure, and added spices for "flavor." And while they were somewhat, well, plastic-tasting, the low-fat wieners weren’t half-bad once drenched in ketchup, mustard, and grilled onions (also courtesy of PETA). They were even tastier when Brazell noted their lack of "pig lips," as opposed to the real hot dogs being served inside Rayburn.
The PETA table was well-stocked with 1,000 dogs, but had to close up shop earlier than expected when it started to drizzle. Playmates Lauren Anderson and Laura Guthridge—vegetarians who work with PETA on several events as part of the “Turn Over a New Leaf” campaign—quickly found robes. They didn’t want their lettuce bikini tops to wilt.
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i heart peta!
Posted by: bob, Nov 05, 2008 05:07:18 PM
Never will buy a Playboy mag again or spend my money at one of their businesses since Playboy supports PETA a terrorist organization. PETA’s stated goal to to end all pet ownership. Nothing worse than a vegetarian burger or hot dog. Give me beef, pork and veal. Nothing beats a organic, humanley grown, locally raised grass fed 20oz prime dry aged bone in rib eye steak done medium rare with local produce. In the late winter and early spring when my herding dogs are working ewes and their newborns all I can see is lamb chops. Not cute little lambs but meat with its own handle.
Time to fire up the ole Weber grill with hardwood charcoal and throw a few all beef hot dogs on it from Sahlen’s. Uuum, uuum good as I add some CO to the earth’s atmoshpere by grilling. Corn should to go feed livestock and poultry not fuel cars!
BTW anyone giving material support to PETA should be sent to GITMO.
Posted by: Fred, Jul 19, 2007 04:11:46 AM
I love eating lettuce!
Posted by: , Jul 18, 2007 09:11:20 PM
Way to go PETA. It’s refreshing to see a fun way to talk about such a serious issue. I get recipes off your vegcooking.com site all the time!
-M
Posted by: Missy, Jul 18, 2007 06:55:53 PM
Did you know PETA ultimately wants dog and cat ownership banned. Just like zoo animals and farm animals, they believe cats and dogs should be wild and not pets. When you think about it there is a logical consistency with their overall agenda. When PETA comes after your pets will you finally stand up and denounce them rather than find them "trendy"?
Posted by: Mark, Jul 18, 2007 06:04:07 PM
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