Portland, Oregon’s Casa Diablo Gentlemen’s Club is a strip joint where only vegetarian food is served and the look is pleather and lace. Today’s New York Times looks at ways sexuality is now used by some as a marketing gimmick for veganism and animal rights. As you might expect, some vegans are not too pleased about that. From the NYT:
Casa Diablo is just the latest example of selling veganism with a “Girls Gone Wild” aesthetic to draw the ire of vegans who complain that such tactics may get people to pay attention to animal cruelty, but for the wrong reasons. In Los Angeles, some frown at the scantily clad Vegan Vixens – a kind of animal-loving Pussycat Dolls – who perform songs like “Real Men Don’t Hunt” at fund-raisers for animal welfare groups.
And many vegans who want to publicize cruelty within the fur industry are nonetheless dismayed by the new “Ink, Not Mink” advertising campaign from peta2, the youth arm of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. It features members of the Internet-based pinup group the Suicide Girls, sporting little more than tattoos and body piercings.
Link (Thanks, Carlo Longino!)
UPDATE: In the comments, GBV23 points to an item in the Willamette Week reporting that the Casa Diablo is up for sale. Link