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May 12, 2008

PETA offers free gas, tofu in thinly veiled promotion

PROVIDENCE -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, angling for media coverage of their stand on global warming and animal rights, is dangling the promise of two women who will barely be covered at all.

Wearing nothing but "strategically placed lettuce leaves," two ladies of animal-rights organization PETA will give out "free Tofurky brand mock-turkey sandwiches" and gift cards for two gallons of gas to the first 50 people at a Providence Shell gas station tomorrow, a PETA news release out today says.

It's slated to happen at 457 Benefit St., Providence, from 2 to 3 p.m.

But it's not supposed to be about a, um, meat market. PETA is "doing lunch" at the station to let drivers know "the best thing that they can do for the environment is jettison their meat-based diets. Eating meat is a more environmentally harmful habit than driving an SUV," the release states.

PETA asserts that eating a pound of meat is the "environmental equivalent of driving more than 40 miles in an SUV" and that University of Chicago researchers found going to a vegan diet is more effective at countering global warming than switching to a Toyota Prius.

"In a time of rising gas prices and rising concern for the environment, we're going the extra mile to help Americans fill up on vegan fuel for their tummies and gas for their tanks," Colleen Higgins, identified by PETA as "lettuce lady," said in the statement.

The news release offered a Web site for more information.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 1:17 PM | Permalink

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