If Lady Gaga Said Her Meat Dress Was a Statement About Leather, Would PETA Like It? Maureen O'Connor · 09/13/10 05:47PM PETA's surprisingly reasonable complaint about Lady Gaga's meat dress: "After time spent under the TV lights, it would smell like the rotting flesh that it is and likely be crawling in maggots." That's why I prefer mink stoles.