--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '2001-01-19T09:37:39' draft: false title: Animal rights activist Alicia Silverstone --- Animal rights activist Alicia Silverstone wearing leather biker's gear? No... [it's "pleather"](http://www.cowsarecool.com/alicia.html)! (While you're at PETA's [cowsarecool.com](http://www.cowsarecool.com/), you can watch a group of cows sing to you (in a song written by B-52's keyboardist Pat Irwin), [pleading not to use them for leather](http://www.peta-online.org/feat/cowcow/index.html). You could have watched this during the superbowl, but CBS refused the ad.