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...