Lady Gaga definitely won the prize for most outrageous outfit at the MTV awards on Sunday night with an all-meat ensemble complete with hat, shoes and purse that people are still talking about. The sound of Hollywood vegans and vegetarians gagging was music to the ears when she walked up on stage in the outfit to accept the award for Best Video of the Year from Cher, who had to hold Gaga’s meat purse.

It had to have grossed out MTV host and dedicated vegan Ellen DeGeneres, who interviewed Lady Gaga about the stunt and why she did it. Her reasoning was not entirely clear, but supposedly had something to do with homosexual rights. “Well, it is certainly no disrespect to anyone that is vegan or vegetarian. As you know, I am the most judgment-free human being on the earth,” said Gaga. “However, it has many interpretations but for me this evening. If we don’t stand up for what we believe in and if we don’t fight for our rights, pretty soon we’re going to have as much rights as the meat on our own bones. And, I am not a piece of meat.”

Of course, it offended PETA, which thinks that Lady Gaga is “over the top.” This from an organization that is all about being over the top when it comes to drawing attention to itself. They decided that the dress must “smell like the rotting flesh it is and likely be crawling in maggots.”

MTV was kind enough to give us all the details about the dress from the designer Franc Fernandez, grilling him with such burning questions as “Did it smell? Was it bloody? Was it heavy? Was Lady Gaga comfortable?”

The cut of meat he used was what he called “matambre” – which is basically flank steak in Argentina, although it is said to translate literally as “shoe leather.” He used 50 pounds of the meat to make the entire ensemble, with very little leftover. According to Fernandez, Lady Gaga said the meat smelled “sweet” and the dress was heavy but comfortable. And he says it was not bloody at all to work with or wear. “It’s actually very clean meat, very sturdy and strong and doesn’t run at all. It’s the meat you use to make a roast, where you roll it in a tortilla and put it in the oven. Hence, the shoes — that’s why they were wrapped in butcher twine.”

Interestingly, most of the so-called “polls” on websites like the Huffington Post about the outfit were pretty evenly split over whether it was offensive or awesome. Miss Gaga also recently wore a meat bikini on the cover of Vogue Hommes Japan. Maybe the meat industry should start a new clothing line.