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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."
Would it be ethical to do this to people?
I know this may be painful to finally realize, but you are human and are at the top of the food chain. Somehow I think that people who do not want to eat animals are far too in touch with their emotional side or trying to live up to unreachable noble goals.
It IS a personal choice though, and we consumers of non-human meat would appreciate it if you'd treat it that way.
PeTA directly bankrolls and is repeatedly under investigation for their links to/shared members with ALF (Animal Liberation Front) actions, including arson, theft, vandalism, assault, and other similar crimes.
Their position is that meat-eating is equivalent to Hitler's holocaust and that they must wage a multi-pronged war (PR, violence, resistance ala French Resistance) to fight it by any means necessary.
I dated someone very much on the inside of this organization who was inside their organizational structure as a paid regional administrator.
They are not only not nice, they are quite simply dangerous. They don't just want to convince your teenagers to not eat meat; they want to sign them up to "volunteer" at local rock concerts and fairs passing out flyers, and once they volunteer and arrive, they will spend the day (or days) trying to convince them that it is their moral duty to get involved in "actions" in the middle of the night wearing balaclavas and committing crimes.
Teens tend to get involved because it makes them feel important, like warriors or secret agents or something... and then when they get arrested and deny any instructions from PeTA it's easy to have them written off as overenthusiastic radical loose-nut juvenilles in need of better parental supervision, etc.
It's domestic terrorism, and inside the organization amongst "friends," they're rather proud of that. They honestly feel that they'll be seen in the future as the French Resistance is seen today.
Aside: I broke up with the person in question some years ago now. She had started to question my trustability and loyalty on the one hand and I started to get questions from law enforcement on the other. I began to fear for my personal safety, from both directions and decided I was nuts to get any more involved with the person in question. I broke all ties and moved across the country.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW