

Playboy model doffs top in PETA protest

SAN DIEGO - Playboy model Robin Arcuri went topless today infront of Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego to protest meat-eatingand promote a vegetarian diet.

Arcuri sat on a pair of folded jeans at the corner of FourthAvenue and Broadway, drawing plenty of onlookers, cameras, honkingmotorists and eventually police.

The model’s body was adorned with block letters indicating"Breast,” “Shoulders,” “Loin,” “Rib” and “Soup Bone.”

Arcuri held a sign in front of her that with the words “Have aHeart, Go Vegetarian, PETA,”


Above the model, two people held a sign that read “All AnimalsHave the Same Parts. Go Vegetarian.”

Matt Rice, a spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment ofAnimals, said the protest coincided with an American MeatAssociation conference in San Diego.

He said more than 27 billion animals are killed for their fleshevery year in the United States.