PETA Using Games To Spread Its Message

Cooking Mama is a series of games for the Wii and the DS in which players go through a number of steps to prepare meals using a variety of recipes. Last week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) created their own Flash-based parody of the game, highlighting the use of meat products by having a more bloody-minded Mama do things like pull the internal organs from a Thanksgiving turkey. Cooking Mama's maker, Majesco, issued a light-hearted response, pointing out the vegetarian meals in the game. PETA then said they plan to continue making parody games as a way of "engaging the public."

Comments

Which games?

[arth1]

Somehow it would be funny if PETA sponsored Natural Fawn Killers.

Re:Which games?

[Creepy Crawler]

Damn straight. Around these parts, I hunt deer and they hunt me. I use a 2 ton missile, and they use their bodies :(

Too bad Ive wrecked 2 cars, including cracking the engine block in 2 on a 10 point buck. That one sucked.

Butcher Mama

[bluefoxlucid]

We should respond by releasing a flash game targeted at 8-12 year olds entitled "Butcher Mama," showing a farm-life environment where you have to slaughter and butcher hogs, chickens, cattle, and fish (from a fishery!). Target the age when your grandpappy taught you about farming, and even have such heart-felt phrases like "this is the best part, they dance around after ya kill 'em" that you should be familiar with if you were raised around livestock.

Hrmm

[acehole]

So I guess a remake of "Duck Hunt" is out of the question?

Irritating.

[DoofusOfDeath]

That's it - every time they make one of those parodies, I'm eating a puppy.

Re:Irritating.

[swordgeek]

Well, OK. As long as it's a free-range puppy, raised in a healthy and loving environment.

Why did this vision suddenly pop in to my head?

[LuxMaker]

Of a game that involves showing how sausage is made. I seem to remember hearing that if you ever have seen it made you would never want to eat it.

Of course they would probably make a game of hiding the sausage over and over again too. I fits with their mantra of going naked to draw publicity.

PETA

[tkrotchko]

PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals

Remember, there's room for all of god's creatures... on the plate right next to the mashed potatoes and green beans.

Screw PETA

[Anonymous Coward]

And the horse they rode in on. er Wait.

Re:eww

[unlametheweak]

What's PETAs stand on human cruelty?

Don't quote me on this, but I believe that they are against the eating of human beings.

Re:Peta out of control

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sorry but...

Animals have the right to be damn tasty.

Be it fried, grilled, baked, or whatever.

People for the Eating of TASTY Animals.

Re:Should I be bothered?

[Shadow of Eternity]

put bacon on it. Eat two animals because they won't eat one.

Re:Ok, Pulling the internal organs out of a turkey

[Anonymous Coward]

So I can eat salamander limbs and still be a vegetarian !

Re:Should I be bothered?

[tanveer1979]

I tried that game actually, but within 2 minutes had an uncontrollable urge to eat chicken. I spent next 2 ours trying to catch a wild chicken, and was successfull, and then I ate it after removing the internals and the skin etc.,

REally good initiative. If I had not played this game I would have eaten chicken and added lots of calories. 2 hours workout along with chicken helped me burn some of them.

Re:Ok, Pulling the internal organs out of a turkey

[KozmoStevnNaut]

The ticker (50,000 chickens killed since you opened this web page!) on that site makes me hungry for meat.

Yay!

[Greyfox]

Are they going to do a clubbing baby seals one? I always wanted to try that in the comfort of my own home, and shipping from Alaska is a bitch! They're always dead when they arrive. Personally I think the shipping guy might be clubbing them before they get here. Either that or maybe I should spring for overnight one of these days...