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FORT LAUDERDALE - Animal rights activists turned heads downtown Thursday as they doused themselves in fake blood and lay onthe sidewalk, half-naked and wrapped in plastic.
Their message: Meat is murder.
About two dozen volunteers and staff members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals gathered at East Las Olas Boulevard and Federal Highway at noonto urge passersby to become vegetarians.
Four women stripped down to their underwear in front of the Cheesecake Factory, rubbed on stage blood and lay down on large trays made to resemblesupermarket meat packages.
Dozens of people stopped to take pictures and pick up pamphlets.
Danilo Bonachea, a self-described "sausage eater" from Deerfield Beach, said he drove by the scene three times before parking to see what washappening.
"It was pretty trippy," said Bonachea, 49, with a camera in hand. "I never looked at (meat) like that."
Their message: Meat is murder.
About two dozen volunteers and staff members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals gathered at East Las Olas Boulevard and Federal Highway at noonto urge passersby to become vegetarians.
Four women stripped down to their underwear in front of the Cheesecake Factory, rubbed on stage blood and lay down on large trays made to resemblesupermarket meat packages.
Dozens of people stopped to take pictures and pick up pamphlets.
Danilo Bonachea, a self-described "sausage eater" from Deerfield Beach, said he drove by the scene three times before parking to see what washappening.
"It was pretty trippy," said Bonachea, 49, with a camera in hand. "I never looked at (meat) like that."
