Yasmien Kurdi has been entered as a candidate in  PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity for this year joining other local beauties like Alicia Mayer, Geneva Cruz, Isabel Roces, and Chin Chin Gutierrez along with Hollywood celebrities such as Alicia Silverstone, Natalie Portman, Pamela Anderson, Vanessa Williams, Carrie Underwood, Rachel Leigh Cook, among others.  Voting is done on line via www.petaasiapacific.com . Yasmien began her vegetarian diet only January of last year. Yasmien seems to have embraced some ideas regarding cruelty to animals which are killed to serve foods for many people. “I’m asking people to liberate their diet and try vegetable,” says Yasmien.