PETA's "lettuce ladies" land in CUBA: bad vegan advocacy?

This week PETA’s ‘infamous’ ‘lettuce ladies’ have landed in Cuba. Is this bad vegan advocacy? Feminist vegans have argued that advocating for veganism while using nude and sexualized female bodies as props is a delegitimizing force in the animal rights movement. Meanwhile research [10] has shown that this type of vegan advocacy fails. Sources cited: 1. PETA's Lettuce Ladies In Cuba Selling Vegan Virtues – And Bizarre Bikinis http://wlrn.org/post/petas-lettuce-ladies-cuba-selling-vegan-virtues-and-bizarre-bikinis 2. Two women are wearing lettuce bikinis for their mission to Havana http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article135323849.html 3. Cuba’s Surge in Tourism Keeps Food Off Residents’ Plates https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/world/americas/cuba-fidel-castro-food-tourism.html\ 4. Cuba’s population in 2015 http://data.worldbank.org/country/cuba 5. UPDATE: After Touching Down in Cuba, ‘Lettuce Ladies’ Get to Work http://www.peta.org/blog/peta-lettuce-ladies-cuba-trip/ 6. Cuba Photo Contest Winners for 2016 http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=122106 7. The Truth About Gender Equality in Cuba https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/posts/the-truth-about-gender-equality-in-cuba 8. Cuba: The Serious Issue of Machismo http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=90110 9. Cuba’s Strange Machismo http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=120694 10. Does Sex Sell Animal Rights? RESEARCH SAYS NO! http://veganfeministnetwork.com/does-sex-sell-animal-rights-research-says-no/ 11. Study: The Objectification of Women Is a Real, Measurable Phenomenon https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/study-the-objectification-of-women-is-a-real-measurable-phenomenon/257504/ 12. Objectification in romantic relationships related to sexual pressure and coercion https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-08/sp-oir082114.php 13. Men’s magazine reading, unwanted sexual behaviors linked https://news.wsu.edu/2014/05/27/study-links-mens-magazine-readers-unwanted-sexual-behaviors/#.U4cj2fmICFw 14. Seeing women as objects: The sexual body part recognition bias http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.1890/abstract 15. Scientists Have Determined What Really Happens When Men Objectify Women https://mic.com/articles/97314/scientists-have-determined-what-really-happens-when-men-objectify-women#.m4TOuNGhC 16. Gender Equality and the Role of Women in Cuban Society http://www.aauw.org/files/2013/01/Cuba_whitepaper.pdf 17. New Congress, same massive gender disparity http://www.vox.com/identities/2017/1/3/14154752/115th-congress-women-gender-disparity 18. The Cuban woman: A rising power http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/06/09/the-cuban-woman-a-rising-power/ 20. Machismo Sexual Identity http://web.stanford.edu/group/womenscourage/Repro_Latin/ekobash_HIVmachismo_Latin.html