Flakes...and the people that love them.

As The Great Zappa realized, many years ago, they're all over the place.

The scariest part about it? They're capable of reproducing:

For those who like to make love to the soundtrack of the global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Greenpeace has released a list of strategies for "getting it on for the good of the planet," suggesting "you can be a bomb in bed without nuking the planet." TreeHugger, an online magazine edited by Ontario's Michael Graham Richard, has just published a guide on "how to green your sex life." The famed adult store Good Vibrations announced last week they would no longer sell sex toys containing phthalates, controversial chemical plasticizers believed by some to be hazardous to humans and the environment alike.

And throughout Canada and the U.S., people who want to pleasure the planet can now buy everything from bamboo bed sheets to organic lubricant and "eco-undies."

"Green living is getting sexy," says Jacob Gordon, author of TreeHugger.com's recent green guide for the bedroom.

If that isn't in and of itself enough to puke, I submit:

Gordon notes there's even an eco-friendly adult website dedicated to naked vegetarians, appropriately called Veg Porn. (WARNING--not for the squeamish, and definitely NSFW--ed.)

Ya know--I sometimes think that forced sterilization has its merits.

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