Oh boy, the hippies are at it again. The animal-welfare wannabe freedom fighters at PETA are no strangers to being morons (following last year’s not-at-all-copyright-infringing Super Chick Sisters) but today, rather than going after something genuinely threatening, they seem to be taking advice from a certain disbarred Florida lawyer and are going after video games. Oh dear. This can’t go well at all.
Not for them, anyway. Hit the jump to find out why PETA have really, really missed the mark.
Then again, for PETA, missing the mark isn’t really too difficult. While I’m all for freedom of speech and letting people have their say (yes, even if that say is “yay animals, boo human beings”) I’m not for the sort of thing PETA gets up to. The aforementioned copyright infringement has happened many a time before, along with rather offensive comparisons to the Holocaust and a few court cases here or there. Basically, they’re an irritant.
Imagine how raised my hackles were when I read that PETA were going after, of all things, a game. Not just anu old game though – it wasn’t Fallout 3, where you can murder your dog; nor was it that obscure line of hunting games where you can shoot polar bears in the face. Nope, of all things, it was, um, Cooking Mama. The one on the Wii. Where you cook stuff.
Hardly offensive, and hardly harmful to any real animals. Certainly, there’s meat preparation in said game (going by what I’ve read about it; as a Sarcastic Gamer writer I avoid anything to do with Nintendo) but it’s not exactly going to affect the real world.
According to PETA, animals shouldn’t even be eaten in a game. A Wii game, at that. In the – really, really funny – statement released by the organisation alongside a Flash game, the freedom fighters (I’m being generous there) are asking wannabe hippies to write to Majesco, the game’s publisher, and ask them to, um, aspire to the top standards of silly political correctness:
If you take just a minute to think about what happens to the animals who are killed for Mama’s meals, a fun cooking game no longer seems…innocent.
If Mama knew what happened to animals on factory farms, she very well might want Majesco Entertainment to make a new Cooking Mama game that is much more animal-friendly…ask that [Majesco] create more vegetarian recipes for Mama or even a game with just vegetarian recipes.
Are PETA actually serious here? I always thought videogames were about escapism; getting away from the big, serious issues of the real world like politics, war, the economy and animal rights (wait, scrap that last one). The last thing I want is to have wannabe hippies trying to ruin my fun just for the sake of namby-pamby political correctness.
I thought being PC had gone far enough when nurseries across the UK were being told to teach children Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep because a “black sheep” just wouldn’t be ‘correct’. Obviously not. It’s almost enough to make you eat even more meat than usual, just to annoy them.
What do you think though? Am I too harsh on hippies? Is it cool to change the content? Are these awesome alliterations actually awful? The comment box is just down there: let me know!
All PETA hatemail can go to my usual email address and from there straight into the trashcan: yamster [at] sarcasticgamer [dot] com. Come get me, hippies.
PETA launches anti Cooking Mama casual game – CasualGaming.biz via MCV
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I’m just gonna dump what I wrote in the forums for those who don’t read them:
Ok PETA you have gone too far.
To start off with, I’m not exactly pro animal liberation so here goes my speil:
PETA, I respect your ideals, you believe that animals should have rights, I accept that too. What I don’t like is your idea that animals should have almost identical rights to humans, and the fact that you use things like arson and thievery to promote your ideals. I don’t like that you make up data, and that you give out pamphlets claiming that ‘Your Mommy Kills Animals” in preschools. And now this. PETA, its a game. It’s a simulation about cooking. So what if it uses meat. What I’m worried about is that you will use your fanatical supporters to firebomb Nintendo. Or kill one of the developer team. You’ve done similar things. This is you desperately trying to make yourself relevant. World opinion is against you, and then you do this to make yourself seem bigger than you are.
Shame on you.
I love animals. Still, I love meat, (want to) hunt, and know animals don’t have equal rights to humans. While I don’tknow for sure how reliable the site is, petakillsanimals[dot]com has realistic looking legal papers from Virginia (?) that claim PETA with its thousands (millions?) of dollars euthanizes hundreds or thousands of animals, whilethe local animal shelter could adopt nearly all of their animals on a shoestring budget. This from the people that freak when a horse accidentaly breaks its leg (but won’t care if a child accidentaly breaks his leg at school, something they didn’t choose to do). A life in a shelter is better than a swift death PETA. Get your priorities straight then people may take you seriously.
Yeah, I tottally agree with you. I myself laugh sometimes at the news, when they do something PC. Sometimes, that is just plain rediculous. Like the baa baa rainbow sheep bit, when I saw that one BBC news, I was in hysterics! But anyway, it’s a pointless move. If we were meant to eat plants only, surely there wouldn’t be animals?
I’m going to this Brazillian rodizio tonight. They have nearly every type of steak imaginable and they come around to your table asking if you want a slice. I’m going to eat soooo much meat tonight that it’s going to make me sick!!!!
I really like the garlic sirloin… oh man my mouth is watering!
That flash game is pretty addicting, love to rip out the organs of that turkey.
umm aren’t these kind of articles meant for a friday?
PETA gives me the lulz.
…Oh my…
Are they taking this piss?
What a stupid bunch of people :S
Did they run outta things to complain about?
Their game was good
Although I stopped at the tofu bit
PETA needs to be less batsh*t insane. If they want to actually get something done then they should focus on real animal abuse and not a cooking game where everything is virtual.
That link to Kentucky Fried Cruelty made me hungry, I like the taste of pain.
http://lwelyk.com/WHATIS/2008/11/17/mmmm-bloody-eggs/
I decided to write a satirical review of the game. Check it out.
In their flash game they make the food look so gross… I could make macaroni and cheese, or salad look that nasty if I really wanted to. I mean they make the Turkey look like it has the Plague.
WOW! I’m now off to play DOOM 3, just so I can go up to that arcade machine and play Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3, or whatever its called.
Oh, double posty sorry, but I just remembered. I’m gunna play Postal 2, so I can stretch a cats anus over the end of a shotgun and pull the trigger, LOL. PETA want something to moan about? There it is.
Plants are alive too.
Ever think about that PETA.
That game was hilarious.
Here’s an article from the Wall Street Journal dealing with this whole Cooking Mama/ PETA event:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Cooking-Mama-Responds-PETA-Highlighting/story.aspx?guid={1D177603-A2EF-486D-835F-B8F5E5F7590A}
PETA now you know what they squander their money on putrid comics,stupid ads and alll sorts of rediculous things now they want fish to be called SEA KITTENS showing just how reiculous they can get i also heard were they were demanding that FISHKILL, N.Y. change its name to FISHSAVE(STUPID NAME)or HAMBURG,N.Y. to change its nome to VEGGIEBURG(EVEN MORE STUPIDER)they even tried to get the GREEN BAY PACKERS to change the name to PICKERS and still theres a bunch of idiots from HOLLYWOOD who donate to them
PETA dont ever think why else are they always pulling off these stupid idiotic stunts like this PETA IS FOR THE EXTREMLY STUPID ONLY