PETA targets 'blood thirsty' Cooking Mama titles

Gamesindustry.biz ^ | November 17, 2008 | James Lee

[PittsburghAfterDark]

PETA, the animal rights activist group, has targeted the DS and Wii franchise, Cooking Mama, in its latest campaign against animal cruelty.

The groups browser-based game, Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals, features a likeness of the character brandishing a kitchen knife, plucking the feathers and taking out the giblets from a turkey, presumably in preparation for the US holiday, Thanksgiving, of which it is the traditional meal.

"Why is PETA picking on poor Mama?" the company explained in a statement. "Because the games are so heavy on dishes made from dead animals that the only things missing are the blood and the slaughterhouse. So in the name of accuracy and honesty, PETA decided to introduce a little of both."

"We wish that all cooking games would allow people to prepare more vegetarian dishes instead of just slicing up animal flesh over and over—so on our site we encourage players to contact Majesco to ask for an all vegetarian-recipe Cooking Mama game."

This follows recent action by the group which resulted in Sega pulling an advert which featured a monkey 'actor'.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

So now even virtual meat is "blood thirsty"? I think these people should tackle a game like World of Warcraft where you gain achievements for killing critters, skinning them and can't level unless you're actively killing beasts.

Just when I think they can't get any sillier they find a way. I never thought I'd see the day when virtual meat was considered sinister and a cooking game "blood thirsty". Makes the nut jobs protesting Grand Theft Auto look rational in comparison.

[CE2949BB]

I'd love to see PETA go after the Chinese chicken sellers at Farmer's Markets.

They sell 'em live, you know. ;)

[pillut48]

Just imagine their shock and dismay when Wii releases the long anticipated “Caribou Barbie goes hunting” starring a CGI Sarah Palin! Woot! ;-0

[Dallas59]

Steak.....uuuurrrrgggghhhh...

[shadeaud]

Some of my neighbors cooked a horse last week and a pig on Sunday and then they coooked a few chickens today........can’t wait for PETA to com on down

[factoryrat]

PETA:

People. Eating. Tasty. Animals.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> I’d love to see PETA go after the Chinese chicken sellers at Farmer’s Markets.

You mean the ones with a dozen Chinese guys in the back room, each with a meat-cleaver and deadly kung-fu skills?

Now *that* would be worth the price of admission!

[Brad's Gramma]

"We wish that all cooking games would allow people to prepare more vegetarian dishes instead of just slicing up animal flesh over and over

Vegetables have feelings too, ya know.

Save The Broccoli!!!

[factoryrat]

Mmmm... Makes me want to lick my monitor.

[ari-freedom]

a horse???

[voteNRA]

I'm all in for the pig and the chickens, but a horse?

[ari-freedom]

[theDentist]

Ah, the PETAphiles are at it again. If I remain home for Thanksgiving, I will drop off the turkey bones in front of PETA’s hq in Norfolk.

[struggle]

never seen beef so attractive...


Btw, the real cooking mama is this man



Good old Kattori Shingo.

[CanadianMusherinMI]

please tell me these fools are not on the long list of groups covered by tax dollars!
why pick on the meat preparers, in sweden they believe vegetables have consciousness too. silly peta peeps!
this may be odd, but telling ben and jerry they should use breast milk instead of cows milk still takes the cake lol i wonder how they figure they would farm lactating women....

[Charlespg]

I'd like to drop these idiots in the middle of the wilderness with nothing but a sharpened stick

[TornadoAlley3]

Aunt Voula: What do you mean he don’t eat no meat?

[Sender]

Who’s up for tofurkey and free-range yams? Pull my finger. No, really. It tastes just like soybeans. I’m running my Prius on tofurkey.

[Hugin]

Kill ‘em and grill ‘em!

[Old Sarge]

Mmmm... Chick, the other white meat...

[Covenantor]

Worst Thanksgiving dinner ever.....for me was in Maine. I was visiting a woman artist friend. I drove through the snow from NYC to her cabin. Her vegetarian friends invited us over for Thanksgiving.

I’ve seen gravy soaked sponges that were more appetizing than the tofu “turkey breast” offered up. Only the nut and rice stuffing was edible. I figured at least coffee and dessert couldn’t get ruined. Wrong....wrong...wrong. Cherry pie with a rye flour crust that was gray, under-cooked and tasted of garage floor sawdust. And coffee remained a mystery to these people.

At the mention of tofurkey I reach for the pistols.

[dayglored]

Wait a minute... where's "breast"?

Oh, wait, I know...

And their caption is not accurate. Not all animals have the same parts. Just mammals. Otherwise, show me the "loin" of a chicken.

On second thought, nevermind.

> Mmmm... Chick, the other white meat...

DAMN! New keyboard time again...

[LooneyTick]

Palomino Steak is great!!

[yazoo]

“so heavy on dishes made from dead animals”

They would prefer live ones? Anyone ever tried to stick a live turkey in the oven? They don’t like it one bit.

[ktscarlett66]

And just wait until you try to take the giblets out - or stuff ‘em. Don’t like that either!

Vegetarian - Indian word for bad hunter.

[Glacier Honey]

ping

[yazoo]

“And just wait until you try to take the giblets out - or stuff ‘em. Don’t like that either!”

Interesting visual, trying to pull the giblets out.

[vox_freedom]

[vox_freedom]

[pillut48]

Save ALL the veggies!! Go FASTING!!!

[uglybiker]

Some find her irritation, but I have the feeling that she'd get a kick from beating the crap out of hippies.

[CaribouCrossing]

HEY PETA! If you happen to be lurking here, I’d like to tell you what’s on the menu at our place this week. MOOSE, HALIBUT, CARIBOU AND COPPER RIVER REDS! You people have some serious issues and they don’t include what I’m eating for dinner. Get thee to a psychologist, ya bunch of wackos.

[pillut48]

PETA's worst nightmare

Is it that time of year to start remembering WKRP's funniest moment?


"As God Is My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fly!"

[TypeZoNegative]

You know the feeling you get when you hear of one of your relatives doing something embarrassingly newsworthy?

That’s how I feel every time these clowns open up their mouths.

[Tamar1973]

Ah, the miracle of WKRP reruns! LOL!

[B-Chan]

Cooking Mama is a great game. F—k PETA.

[DryFly]

[MarkL]

Nicely rounded “round” there!

Mark

[Fire_on_High]

WoW took a big potshot at PETA in the expansion with an encampment of environutter druids called DEHTA. The last quest in the chain is called “DEHTA’s Little PITA”, if that gives you an idea how seriously they take the whole bit.

Their chief rival is a maniacal safari leader from the previous expansion with ties to the original game. It’s gut bustingly funny cuz Blizz takes shots at everyone and everything.