PETA: Nudity = Vegetarianism

Houstonians will soon be treated to a TV commercial featuring a nude Alicia Silverstone emerging from a swimming pool, alluringly eyeing the camera – and then announcing that she’s a vegetarian and “it’s amazing.”

Yes, it’s the latest from our friends at PETA, the serial leches who seem to congenitally link nudity with being nice to animals: They’ve featured Pamela Anderson and Dominique Swain sans clothing in ads in the past.

Houston was deemed recipient of the PSA, PETA explains, because of its general nutritional retardedness: It won the trophy for the sixth-fattest city in the nation from Men's Fitness magazine this year.

All well and good, but it’s hard to see how showing a writhing nekkid actress is going to convince a city to change its eating habits. Only a thoroughgoing boob is going to see that spot and think, “Hey, if I pass on that Angus steak, maybe I can look like her!” (Or, if you’re a guy, “Hey, if I say no to that rack of baby back ribs, maybe she’d let me score with her!”)

And anyway, the thing looks more like a perfume commercial than a public-service announcement championing nutritional practices. If they want to employ nudity to convince people to quit eating meat, they should run a spot featuring a 400-pound guy with his gut drooping over his junk proudly announcing, “I eat meat – and lots of it! I don’t even know what a vegetable is! Be like me – chow down on our animal friends!”