GaGa's 'meat bikini' criticised by PETA

Lady GaGa has sparked outrage among animal rights activists for wearing meat for a magazine cover.

The picture, which features on the front of this month's issue of Vogue Hommes in Japan, shows the singer posing in a 'bikini' made entirely of raw meat.

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said: "Lady GaGa's job is to do outlandish things, and this certainly qualifies as outlandish because meat is something you want to avoid putting on or in your body.

"No matter how beautifully it is presented, flesh from a tortured animal is flesh from a tortured animal.

"Meat represents bloody violence and suffering, so if that's the look they were going for, they achieved it."

Last year, the organisation asked GaGa to pose naked for its Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur campaign after she claimed: "I hate fur and I don't wear fur."