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NBC Bans PETA Veggie Porn During Super Bowl

Ad featuring lingerie model grinding with pumpkin too sexual for network censors

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 27, 2009 9:58 AM CST
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(Newser) – PETA’s latest TV ad reaches a whole new level of extreme—and has been nixed by NBC from Sunday's Super Bowl telecast, the New York Post reports. The ad—taglined “Vegetarians Have Better Sex”—features models in their skivvies getting down with vegetables. According to PETA, reasons NBC gave for rejection include “licking eggplant, rubbing pelvic region with pumpkin” and “screwing herself with broccoli.”

“Ads for fried chicken and burgers are allowed, even though these foods make Americans fat, sick, and boring in bed,” one PETA rep said. Another wrote on the PETA blog: “I’m pretty sure that most Super Bowl fans would find the ad a lot more appealing than the impotence and other not-so-sexy effects that a steady stream of chicken wings and burgers can have on their love lives.”

PETA claims vegetarians have better sex, but NBC won't run its ad telling you so.
PETA claims vegetarians have better sex, but NBC won't run its ad telling you so.   (©Gary Denness)
PETA's proposed Super Bowl ad showed people getting frisky with veggies--and NBC pulled it.
PETA's proposed Super Bowl ad showed people getting frisky with veggies--and NBC pulled it.   (©Pink Sherbet Photography)
You want to do WHAT with a zucchini? NBC says it won't air PETA's latest controversial ad without some paring down, the New York Post reports.
"You want to do WHAT with a zucchini?" NBC says it won't air PETA's latest controversial ad without some paring down, the New York Post reports.   (©nicdafis)
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riffran
Apr 4, 2009 3:50 AM CDT
thanks hon..:)
Guest
Jan 30, 2009 7:48 PM CST
Sicko.
riffran
Jan 27, 2009 9:18 PM CST
I'm gonna start a new group PETABA......People Eat Tenderized and Baked Animals...with gravy.....mmmmmmm veal cutlets

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