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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

(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... Read full story »

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