Top 10 PETA Stunts of 2010

It's been another productive year for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, the Norfolk, Va., organization that exports its wacky brand of performance activism to the rest of the world.

In case you missed it, some good people who care deeply about vegetables did some very good things in the nude in 2010.

Remember, if there's anything that you should take away from a PETA stunt, it's this: (1) Don't eat anything other than lettuce, and (2) whenever you want to make a point, take off your clothes.

So that you all can speak intelligently on the advancement of veganism over your next meal of tap water and romaine, AOL News has provided a chronological look back at the nudest, crudest PETA stunts from the past year ...

1) Ramming home the point that vegans make better lovers, and the rest of us better voyeurs, PETA set up an open-air boudoir on the streets of Nashville, Tenn., in February. A scantily clad vegan couple lolled about on a crimson bed swapping spit, which, technically, would be consumption of animal products.

2) Also in February, an attractive, well-bred young woman disrupted the Westminster Dog Show in New York City by holding up a placard that read "Mutts Rule." File under "unintentional irony."

3) Equating pregnant women with fat sows, PETA's London branch enlisted several expectant women to pose mostly nude, on all fours and in cages, in late February, to protest farmed meat. The point, of course, was that humans should never, ever use animals of any sort for self-aggrandizement.

4) Dozens of seminude PETA protesters, covered in soot and fake blood, lay around in downtown Pamplona, Spain, in July to protest the running of the bulls. Though appealing for humane treatment of the bulls, the demonstrators mostly looked like they'd been trampled to death by them -- triggering thoughts of revenge in the rest of humanity.

5) Beirut has more pressing problems than spaying and neutering its pets. Assassinations, sectarian violence, and double-digit unemployment come to mind. PETA, though, its ear to the "Arab street," knows what really ails the Lebanese capital. In July, it dressed up a volunteer as a giant vanilla condom to promote animal birth control.

6) Meanwhile, a week later, PETA wrapped seminude protesters soaking in fake blood in New York's Times Square to look like supermarket beef packages. Their point? That "animals have the same senses and range of emotions as humans do; and that when you eat meat, you are eating a corpse." No word on whether People for the Ethical Treatment of People protested the protest.

7) In August, PETA got the word out that women are nothing more than pieces of meat. Nah -- actually, the Vancouver, Canada, protest, involving young women in pasties and G-strings, and inked with butcher markings, was intended to decry the meat industry. To most males, though, meat suddenly looked really, really appealing.

8) In October, dwarfs dressed as chickens emerged from a pink stretch Mini Cooper in Times Square to protest animal cruelty in front of a McDonald's. Strutting and chanting, "Cluck you, McDonald's!" the chickens held signs that read, "I am not a nugget!" Billions and billions of customers would disagree.

9) Fashion designer Donna Karan used rabbit fur in her collection, so in November, PETAzens took to her DKNY Facebook page to get revenge. Posters created a vertical message that read "D-K B-U-N-N-Y B-U-T-C-H-E-R." ... So cute!!

10) In December, a comely PETA activist made up to look like a snake lounged in front of a Bangkok shopping mall to protest the use of exotic animal skins in luxury goods. While the stunt failed to shock, it did attract a surge of visitors to the high-end mall -- who then presumably knocked off a little shopping before the holidays.

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