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Traci Bingham isn’t shy about revealing body parts—but she draws the line at eating them. The curvaceous vegetarian actor, known to TV viewers from her appearances on Baywatch, Comedy Central’s Strip Mall and a host of various shows on BET and MTV, has traded in her bathing suit for her birthday suit in a new PETA ad that encourages people to view animals as more than walking entrées. Billions of animals are bred every year for the sole purpose of having their bodies chopped up and stuck in tidy packages on supermarket shelves. Like us, animals raised for their flesh have personalities and feelings and form family relationships and friendships if given the chance. Instead, factory farms deny animals everything that is natural or enjoyable to them, condemning them to tortured lives in filthy, cramped cages, stalls and sheds, where only a steady diet of drugs keeps them alive long enough to be prodded to the slaughterhouse. Horrifyingly, dismemberment often starts months beforehand—chickens, pigs, sheep and cows routinely undergo excruciating de-beaking, tail-docking or castration—all without painkillers. Click here to learn more about factory-farming cruelties. ‘By exposing myself, I hope to expose others to the many benefits of a vegetarian diet’, says Bingham. The racy ad, shot by Robert Sebree in Hollywood, will appear in the July issue of Gear magazine, just in time to add some sizzling conversation to backyard barbecues.
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