Bikinied Beauties Provide Free Healthy Vegan Food to Philly Transit Workers on Picket Line

Philadelphia -- Wearing nothing but bikinis made from strategically placed lettuce leaves and holding signs reading, "Lettuce Help Your Health, Go Vegan," two lovely Lettuce Ladies from PETA will hand out delicious and healthy vegan "chicken" salad and "steak" sandwiches—along with copies of the "Vegetarian Starter Kit"—to striking Philadelphia transit workers picketing outside the Fern Rock Transportation Center today. The action follows reports that the strikers' concerns include rising health care costs.

When:   Wednesday, November 4, 3 p.m.

Where:  Fern Rock Transportation Center (Nedro Avenue and 10th Street), Philadelphia

Choosing healthy vegan foods over meat, milk, and eggs offers distinct health benefits. On average, vegans are significantly leaner than meat-eaters are. Also, the consumption of meat, eggs, and dairy products has been conclusively linked to heart disease, strokes, diabetes, certain types of cancer, and, of course, obesity. The meat industry is also responsible for the daily suffering and terrifying deaths of billions of animals and is the number one source of the greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to climate change.

"Even as they negotiate their insurance costs, Philly's transit workers can get their health on the right track by going vegan," says Lettuce Lady Kelsey Jaye. "Leaving animals off your plate is the fastest and easiest road to fitness, so we hope that these hardworking men and women won't miss the bus."

For more information, please visit PETA.org.