Didn't your mother teach you not to play (dress-up) with your food?

Lady Gaga was nominated for 13 awards for this year's MTV Video Music Awards; she took home 8 of them last Sunday. 

While her artistic talents brought pop music to a whole new level since her breakout single, "Just Dance", hit the #1 spot on Billboard in January 2009, her fashion and style choices have always been questioned by...well...everyone. 

Just when we thought she could not possibly come up with anything more outrageous than her Kermit the Frog outfit, Lady Gaga managed to shock us yet again when she accepted her Video of the Year award on Sunday in a meat dress. The meat dress, properly accessorized with meat shoes, a meat hat, and a meat purse (what else?), was made by Franc Fernandez and reportedly costs only $100. It doesn't matter what the critics say, at least she's sensitive of the economic recession. 

But the mystery remains...is the dress made of real meat? Neither Fernandez nor Nicola Formichetti, Lady Gaga's stylist (Lady Gaga has a stylist?), will comment. 

Real meat or not, PETA is already on the case like, for a lack of better words, flies on meat. Maggot and E-Coli infestations are the two concerns PETA has, which means that PETA must not be disturbed by how the dress looks...

I admire Lady Gaga. But I also think that the only time raw meat should come in contact with human skin is in the kitchen. And I surely hope that nothing that belongs on a dinner plate starts to replace cotton and silk any day soon - laundry days just wouldn't be the same. 

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