PETA plans to continue to use games to spread its message

by David Hinkle { Nov 24th 2008 at 6:21PM }

Following up their recent Super Mario Bros. and Cooking Mama games, PETA has commented to GI.biz that they'll continue this format as a way of "engaging with the public." We guess it's been successful for them, as they say this approach to spreading their message is as "important as music, movies, and television." We can't say we agree, but different strokes for different folks, we suppose.

"Many people are unaware of the real-life violence that animals endure on factory farms and in slaughterhouses," a PETA spokesperson said. "We use games to highlight the cruelty to animals because they appeal to people who are interested but may be turned off by more direct appeals." Well, we don't understand the effectiveness of this approach, to tell you the truth, but, then again, we enjoy a burger every now and then.

Gallery: Cooking Mama World Kitchen

Tags: cooking-mama, cooking-mama-world-kitchen, peta, super-chick-sisters

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ZombiePikmin @ Nov 24th 2008 6:36PM

People eating thousands of animals.

I had roast beef for dinner it was great.

PETA commits bestiality.

Im gonna pelt a PETA building with eggs whilst wearing fur.

Kentucky fried cruelty my ass.

Charles Mansion is a vegetation, Coincidence???

IMA CHARGIN MAH LAZERZ your eating a salad.

Veal is dead baby cow. . .and DELICOUS.

Animalas De la meurte is gonna rock your socks off.

Kefka @ Nov 24th 2008 6:47PM

Teach by example PETA. You can start by not euthanize hundreds of thousands of animals that are "rescued" by you on a yearly basis.

eatxchoui @ Nov 24th 2008 7:04PM

I have a comment about PETA's version of Cooking Mama. It sucks! It's hardly even a game! If you want to have an impact through imitating an already existing game, at least make it enjoyable. I gave up after mixing the ingredients for stuffing.

Gundam_Warrior @ Nov 24th 2008 7:13PM

Dear PETA.....go away.

sjames7 @ Nov 24th 2008 7:56PM

I'm not above eating people instead of animals on the condition that the people are from PETA. I figure if they want to save the animals so bad maybe they'll let me eat them instead. And if you think about it, cows and PETA people eat the same vegetarian grain-fed diets, so they're probably tender and delicious.

I've already eaten my juicy rare New York strip steak for dinner tonight, but as far as tomorrow goes I'm willing to change my meal plans. If it is convenient for a PETA to skin, clean, and butcher one of their members I'd be glad to plan a meal around that. Preferably a member who isn't fed HGH or other chemicals and doesn't smoke pot or use any drugs or medications; it's a shame the things they do to people these days to ensure they're "healthy" and "productive."

Cyantre @ Nov 24th 2008 8:01PM

Why hasn't Majesco sued yet? I mean can't they sue for copyright infringement and deformation of character?

ChibiKawase @ Nov 24th 2008 11:19PM

That would just give PETA airtime, which is exactly what they want ("PETA takes on evil game corporation that promotes slaughtering of helpless animals in horrific conditions!"). I think Majesco make the best choice by nailing PETA good with the PR boost.

ChromeAlchemist @ Nov 24th 2008 8:21PM

God i hate PETA almost as much as greenpeace. The animal is still going to be killed and eaten. it's like someone being beaten before he is excecuted, his plight is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

You know what really grinds my sh*t about some people besides PETA? when you ask for veal and they say 'OMG its baby cow you can't eat that!' while lamb is baby sheep and no one seems to care.

P.S i could care less tbh, you can moan all you want PETA, but for every animal you don't eat, ill eat five, and possibly beat a pig while i am at it. helping animals that can't help themselves my ass, there are human F*CKING beings out there that can't survive much less help themselves, get your priorities straight!

Rant over.

ChromeAlchemist @ Nov 24th 2008 8:25PM

also, things to say to a PETA activist or vegetarian when told not to eat meat (to screw with their minds) vol.1:

1. If i throw this burger in the bin, has this animal not died for nothing?

2.isn't your refusal to eat meat redundant if i eat two for every one you don't?

3. If a starving family on the brink of poverty find a cow, is it wrong for them to eat it?

vol.2 coming soon!

James Madley @ Nov 24th 2008 9:14PM

My sister loved their first game. She downloaded it and played it for an hour.

Ironically her name is also Peta...

phenylketonurics @ Nov 24th 2008 9:49PM

The use of scare tactics kind of insults the intellegence of the wider audience this group is trying to attract. It's just a huge agenda and totally sick that it's stylised after something so utterly innocent.

There is no underlying message in Cooking Mama that sinks into our children's subconscious, causing them to mass torture and mutilate animals. The sick freaks at PETA who dug this up with their little psychosis are the ones deserving a second glance.

Guilty dogs bark the loudest.

Ninbrendo @ Nov 25th 2008 12:44PM

Look who's barking.

phenylketonurics @ Nov 26th 2008 4:37PM

Haha, touché! Touché.

Matias @ Nov 24th 2008 10:21PM

cruelty makes chicken so tasty.

I've been wondering why PETA opposes eating animals, it's just natural, and about the torture and stuff, even tigers play with their food before eating it.

gordo @ Nov 24th 2008 11:56PM

You guys are like the Rush Limbaugh of carnivores.

Jake @ Nov 25th 2008 3:26AM

Wow you guys are really showcasing your complete lack of intelligence rather well. You worthless pieces of crap are the reason this world is falling apart.

It's really no secret (well, except to the uneducated such as yourselves) that the rate of vegetarianism goes up with the rate of higher education.

If you can eat something that has the same range of emotions as you do (read: ALL MAMMALS - yes, you uneducated bunch might not know this, but all mammals have the same basic brain structure, granted, humans do have a slightly more complex one than most species, exceptions being dolphins and whales) then you are a worthless piece of crap.

You know what I've found, most people tend to secretly feel guilty about eating meat, and that is why they have to attack organizations like PETA.

And no eating meat doesn't inherently make you a worthless piece of crap IMO, it's being a jerk off about it like all of you. My boyfriend eats meat and it doesn't bother me. Why? He himself thinks it's kind of wrong.

The ONLY reason humans have taken over the world and not dolphins is because we are upright, land, dextrous limbed, opposable thumbed, language gifted animals. SO MANY animals meat at least 4 of the criteria mentioned. We just lucked out.

I hope a bear kills all of you.

I bet most of you think the second amendment is a good thing to.

Worthless American scum.

sjames7 @ Nov 25th 2008 8:39AM

"SO MANY animals meat at least 4 of the criteria mentioned."

Mmmmmmmm, meat.

sjames7 @ Nov 25th 2008 8:41AM

Oh yeah, and that's a bit a Freudian slip, huh?

DWizzle @ Nov 25th 2008 1:54PM

LOL. The reason we humans dominate the Earth is because we eat meat. How else do you think our brains got so big?

EricC @ Nov 29th 2008 7:41PM

I'm the smartest man on earth, and I eat meat. Your argument fails miserably.

Rocketboy @ Nov 25th 2008 10:54AM

"Jake said...My boyfriend eats meat and it doesn't bother me."

My wife eats meat, and it does not bother me as well.

As a matter of fact, it bothers me when she doesn't.

Tom Boucher @ Nov 25th 2008 11:13AM

I will continue to eat 5 animals for every one they don't, turkeys, pigs, and whatever else I kill for thursday meal I will eat more of just because.

you can't kill an animal without labeling it violent. PETA is a bunch of retards and they can steal content, pose naked, whatever they want it won't stop me from cracking open a chicken embryo & searing pig flesh every morning.