Oh this is going to be good. Vegetarian host of "Issues" on Headline News channel will be covering this story tonight. She will take Lady Gaga to task!! They will be covering this story tonight on the show.

Why do we find this so distasteful? Probably because it represents needless waste of life; because, at a time when huge populations in some parts of the world are starving, we might feed, raise and kill an animal that gives us no nutritional benefit. The question we should be asking ourselves is whether this is at all different to actually eating it. We don't need it to survive, in the same way Lady Gaga didn't need to wear it. If this should make us shocked at anything, it is our own hypocrisy.

15 minutes in the spotlight ? Who is lady gaga anyway ?

Meat dress is nothing new. Canadian artist Jana Sterbak is known for a sculptural work in the form of a dress sewn from slices of dried meat. The work was made over a decade ago. And even further back, Anne Bean, performance artist and one-time member of seventies glam-pop group The Moodies is reputed to have worn a dress made of raw bacon.

What's PETA's beef with this? Just because they were too chicken to steak-out what people might wear, poor lambs. But, don't have a cow, PETA, I'm sure Lady GaGa won't crow about this...

Wait - that last one didn't make sense. ("None of them did!") Never mind...

GAGA rocks, so well deserved!!!

how do we know the meat was wasted? who can say if it wasn't eaten afterward.

also, how on earth can anyone be bothered to be bothered about someone using meat for any purpose when, if you go to any supermarket anywhere, you'll find very large amounts of meat. why shouldn't gaga wear it, or do anything else with it for that matter?

finally, meat and all kinds of other foods get wasted *every day*.

...and then you have Cher who is mutton dressed as lamb.

I think she's lamb-tastic!

More Lady Gaga stories, please.

Poor Cher, done up like a dogs dinner and then a dogs dinner walks on.

The only thing I find distasteful in that picture is Cher. What the hell is she wearing ? I think Lady Gaga's is not the first meat purse that she's held.

I know who Cher is - remember her with Sonny and have a Gershwin recording of her with Larry Adler - but what is Lady Gaga? Is she Gaga?

Wait.

Cher is still alive??!! How old is she? Like, 90?

While I find this whole idea for a meat dress just stupid, I weirdly find myself on her side as soon as those idiots at Peta start mouthing off.

But she did look delicious.

Ooh look, another pop star trying to be shocking!!

Why don't you were dead baby foetuses as a hat next time. That will get everyone talking about you. Yawn.

Try hard much, queen? I think it's more appropriate to say that this dress signifies that she/her constructors have run out of ideas to steal. I don't give a damn about that dead flesh because in someone's mind those maggots gnawing at raw flesh represent some emotional trauma from the third grade (after all, she is really Paul from the Wonder Year). What's offensive is the Class-C music and lyrics that sound like studio session leftovers from some 90210 re-run where Dylan experiments with E for the first time at the Peach Pit After Dark. Close it down Nat!

and she should do a duet with Morrissey.

Newkirk speculated that Gaga would have been surrounded by a distinctive perfume. "Meat is the decomposing flesh of an abused animal who didn't want to die, and after being under the TV lights, it would smell like the rotting flesh that it is and likely be crawling with maggots – not too attractive, really," she said.

This says rather more about Ms Newkirk than it does about Lady Gaga.

PETA has had plenty of undressed meat on display in its ads over the years.

Seems a bit hypocritical to start complaining about it now.

This page says it all..
http://www.indianchild.com/vegeterianism_quotes.htm

we might feed, raise and kill an animal that gives us no nutritional benefit.

Sorry mate but the jury's out on that one, history has proved that people who don't eat meat have shorter life spans.

That's not to say the gluttony on offer from fast food chains can't be curbed though.

This is just silly. The dress is silly, and the people complaining about it are silly; oh, and these awards are silly.

She is a genius. We are all reading about it. Job done Lady Gaga. I am not really into her music, but you have to hand it to her, what a brilliant business woman.

it's Asos.com not ASDA.com, ffs Gaga.

For all those taking a jab at Peta, see the link below..
http://www.indianchild.com/vegeterianism_quotes.htm

Now let your ego speak !!

Maybe PETA should create a tofu dress for her to wear instead?

I do hope she washed her hands after handling all that raw meat. Think of the food poisoning!

Doh! That should be 'wear' not 'were'. Been a long day!

flavour of the month.

I'm gaga at the thought of all the cereals that would be needed to feed all those cows (and the effect on the ozone layer of the methane that they would produce) if people kept them as pets instead of killing them when they were ready to be eaten...
Soylent Green!

Bloody hell, how many Lady gaga articles can get writen here? Why don't you just scrap the music section and rename it gaga or else go out to some gigs and write about musicians who don't rely on stupid publicity stunts to get attention.

PS. Would leather have been OK?

mutton dressed as lamb?

Come on you think it was meat. Write the article after it has been confirmed.

I didn't see anyone complaining about Chers' leather boots. But then again, she is more mainsteam and less threatening.

@machiajelly

Spot on!

Eww Gaga!
Really?
This comment has nothing to do with regards of my eating choice but the fact that I think this is just ewww! Wear leather at least then you won't smell so bad but what a shame on the cow having to deal being next to Gaga! If I were a cow I never wear her, she would not be good enough!
Bloody Pop Stars!

I DON'T CARE...

Yikes! It's hard to keep my eyes on the "meat purse" Cher is holding when she's standing there wearing that horrible getup. Who dressed her anyway?

She's another revolting celebrity, who tries to disguise her lack of talent by being 'shocking'. What kind of message does she think she's sending out here? 'I'm sooooo controversial!' perhaps? 'I flaunt my disregard for life - by wearing it!', maybe? Or, 'I haven't made the headlines in a while, Katy Perry is back - must up the shock tactics!'
Either way, she's setting a terrible example to young influential fans. If indeed she does voice her concern for any causes in the future, I will have zero respect for her, and find it impossible to believe that she could have genuine concern for anything other than her own manufactured public image.
After all, charity begins at home, and people cannot seriously expect to bring peace and help stop the violence in the world when they are contributing to it in the most immediate sense, by killing and consuming/wearing innocent life.

I think it must be fake otherwise the dress must have stank.

She was doing a lot of hugging in her meat-dress and I thought about what must have been going through the minds of those about to have a load of light-warmed carcass clinging to them.

@AdrianaAmaya

Give us an example of someone nice and fluffy.

Cliff?

It's Pop for goodness sake!

"hold my meat purse...."

dirty cow....

....genius

Gaga's alluding to the fact that she is, as a celebrity, here to be devoured (and maybe shat out) by her public and is ultimately disposable. Well that's what my clever friend says anyway.

Whatever she means by it I think she's fab and dares to be unconventional in a bland pop landscape...AND my friend and I are both vegetarians.

Now if she were wearing fur I might have a different opinion...

She plays music occasionally right?

I know PETA has delusions that people agree with them, but I'm surprised the Guardian would go to them first (or second, or third) for comment, and more surprised that they would give them two paragraphs.

It is possible that the small minority of Gaga fans who are vegetarians would be offended.

Mutton dressed as lamb...oh come on ha ha ha!

who tries to disguise her lack of talent by being 'shocking'

She may or may not be many things, but to say Lady Gaga is talentless as an artist is ignorant at best and inverted snobbery at worst.

Beef curtains

Ha ha ha ha

Come on Guardian do a bit of research or are you just trying to provoke a reaction from Veggie Guardianistas? There's enough trolling on CIF without the need for the original journo doing it.

The dress was not made from meat - it is fabric.