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Two vegetarians and animal-rights activists who call themselves “Lettuce Ladies” travelled from Britain to Kazakhstan to stand outside in freezing temperatures wearing only lettuce-leaf bikinis. Why would they do an asinine thing like that? They’re on a mission from PETA: to urge Kazakhs to stop eating meat.
“Whereas Borat is ridiculing the country, we're trying to come here with a positive message," Yvonne Taylor, 35, told Reuters. "We're saying that going vegetarian is the best thing people can do for their health and to stop animals suffering."Kazakhstan's national cuisine is almost entirely meat-based. Horse sausage and boiled sheep's head are delicacies while lamb and offal are part of the staple diet.
Wearing sequined green bikinis made of plastic lettuce leaves and high heels, Taylor and colleague Lucy Groom, 27, shivered as they waved placards and posed in the biggest city Almaty at temperatures hovering just above freezing.
According to a local blogger, Kazakhs joke that they are the world’s second-biggest consumers of meat. Who’s first? The wolves.
Click here for more photos of the ladies’ visit, taken by tienshan.
