PETA has been doing their apparently annual “Sexiest Vegetarian Alive” contest, and Seattleite Coulter Leslie has made the cut as one of the ten male finalists. The whole thing is being run by GoVeg.com, who with PETA will send the winner to Maui.

“Coulter never stops fighting for animals. He has handed out vegetarian leaflets and shown “Meet Your Meat” outside hundreds of concerts, and he frequently protests outside KFC and fur stores. He also enjoys playing music (watch out for his upcoming tour), climbing mountains, snowboarding, and traveling.”

Now, Coulter’s not really my type–there are lots of way more attractive vegetarians in Seattle, if that’s your thing–but he’s the only local on the list, which I guess ought to count for something. (He also sounds kind of annoying, but I realize that I’m a pot remarking on the color of his kettle in that particular instance, so we’ll let that slide.) The results of largely pointless contests and polls are very important to our civic identity, so it might be worthwhile to have a notable vegetarian wandering around.