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JORDAN ARRESTS VEGETARIANISM ACTIVIST CLAD ONLY IN LETTUCE
Activist Ashley Fruno’s appearance in the Jabal Amman neighborhood of Amman attracts a large number of onlookers, causing traffic jams in the area
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
July 25, 2010
Jordanian police on Sunday detained a Canadian woman as she walked down a fashionable street in the capital Amman wearing a gown made of lettuce leaves to urge Jordanians to become vegetarians, eye witnesses said.
Activist Ashley Fruno, a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, wore a dress made of lettuce with a headscarf and held a sign reading "Let Vegetarianism Grow on You."
Her appearance in the Jabal Amman neighbourhood attracted a large number of onlookers and caused traffic jams in the area, forcing security men to intervene and take her to a nearby police station.
Fruno told reporters that she only wanted to "draw attention to the suffering" of the more than 120 million animals killed for their meat each year in Jordan.
"The consumption of meat, eggs and dairy products is the number one cause of climate change and a major contributor to resource depletion, pollution and even world hunger," she said.
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