PETA's fur-hating, law-skirting, super-cute animal game
by Kyle Orland 
{ Mar 28th 2008 at 1:00AM }
You might think a game that encourages spray-painting private property might be a little irresponsible for an activist group, but an in-game disclaimer notes that it's all right because the animal characters are "not subject to human laws." It's like the ultimate diplomatic immunity! This gives us an idea for a crime spree involving trained penguins that the courts can't touch ... but perhaps we've already said too much ....
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
eugene @ Mar 28th 2008 1:06AM
If god didn't want us to kill animals for fur, he wouldn't have wrapped them up in such fuzzy soft goodness.
ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Mar 28th 2008 1:58AM
Your avatar and comment go together like cream and pie.
BPM X: Soul Eraser [SSBB: 5026 4120 1186] @ Mar 28th 2008 3:47AM
And if God didn't want us to eat other animals, He wouldn't have made them taste so good.
OM NOM NOM NOM NOM
Bizzy @ Mar 28th 2008 11:00AM
QFT
James @ Apr 6th 2008 3:42PM
Heh, I use that argument against my hardcore Darwinist friends -- "Why would the pig evolve deliciousness as a trait?"
fischju @ Mar 28th 2008 1:13AM
I'm sure their money could have been spent much better, on signs and bullhorns. But this is less bothersome for those of us that do buy fur, bceause it means less money for signs and bullhorns :)
Tiptup300 @ Mar 31st 2008 3:20PM
Wait, this brings up an important matter. Where do they get this blood?
james.bonkowski @ Mar 28th 2008 1:16AM
Let’s look at things from an evolutionary stand point, you believe in evolution don’t you? What is the point of pain? To keep animals away from danger. To keep them alive long enough to reproduce because they are the dependence of animals that used pain to stay alive. Pain allows animals to stay alive and reproduce. What causes chickens to stay alive and reproduce today? Tasting good. As long as chickens taste good to humans and humans are the dominate species, chickens will forever live. Evolution approves of KFC. Maybe if the dodo bird tasted better it would still be alive. Same applies to fur coats. Don’t go around torturing animals for fun or anything, but raising them and killing them for industry isn’t that bad.
Savok @ Mar 28th 2008 2:57AM
Same thing with Greenpeace and rainforest timbers.
In some countries once the value on having the forests was removed, they knocked them down to make room for farm land since they didn't want to starve (and could no longer afford to import food because they couldn't sell their timber).
generic @ Mar 28th 2008 6:10AM
Uh, actually, the dodo was hunted into extinction, meaning the same kind of desirability that you're placing on chicken and furry animals. I'm far from a PETA supporter, but that's some pretty flawed logic, man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Freeway_chickens
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Mar 28th 2008 8:50AM
It isn't that flawed. Only reason dodo was hunted to extinction was because animal husbandry hadn't been developed yet.
In other words, the thought of capturing and raising them for food hadn't crossed their minds.
Well, now it has crossed our minds. I have absolutely no problem with raising animals for the sole purpose of killing them for food/clothing, as long as they don't have shitty conditions while they're alive.
Phillip @ Mar 28th 2008 10:14AM
"you believe in evolution don’t you?"
No.
james.bonkowski @ Mar 28th 2008 10:24AM
Chill Phil. I just threw that out there because there are a lot of people that think “if you don’t believe in evolution you’re an idiot” but they themselves don’t look at the world from an evolutionary point of view, which is usually pretty negative and unforgiving, hence I like to remind them.
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Mar 28th 2008 11:32AM
Why does he need to "chill". All he said was "no".
james.bonkowski @ Mar 28th 2008 11:53AM
Mainly because his name is Phil.
Jack (SFC: 4983 4617 3409) @ Mar 28th 2008 12:53PM
@Chrono
We barely use fur for clothing. The high priced furs only serve the Capitalist class and are worn for STATUS. Not warmth, not practicalness, but for STATUS. The point is that wearing fur because it makes you feel that you're above someone else is stupid.
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Mar 28th 2008 1:10PM
I don't really care what you use the clothes for. The fact is the particular individual animals killed for their skins (fur) would not exist except we cultivated it for that purpose. Same with cows and beef and chickens and their meat.
As long as their existence on this planet isn't plagued with suffering, I couldn't care less what we do with the animal after its killed. And frankly, neither could it.
PiratePete @ Mar 28th 2008 4:08PM
"you believe in evolution don’t you?"
No.
I second that.
Ignatius @ Mar 29th 2008 4:56PM
Well, um. Okay, go ahead and refute hundreds of years of the scientific process and theoretical thought. Instead, enjoy a good reading of a five-thousand year-old book. I'm sure that's accurate.
Worst Review Ever @ Mar 28th 2008 1:16AM
When will PETA learn that animals like being skinned and worn? Wouldn't you be flattered if someone wanted to wear you around their shoulders? Of course you would. We should all be so lucky.
robstel @ Mar 28th 2008 1:24AM
PETA's next game should be about how they kill 95% of the animals they take in.
CJC @ Mar 28th 2008 1:31AM
I'm disappointed. I thought this was a furry-hating game for a second.
Burnt Meatloaf @ Mar 28th 2008 4:58AM
Even furries hate PETA.
AwesomeStuff @ Mar 28th 2008 10:35AM
YIFF YIFF YIFF YIFF YIFF YIFF YIFF
C-C-C-C-Combo breaker?
Paulmichael @ Mar 28th 2008 1:46AM
Ugh. PETA is so annoying. But it's so funny to watch numerous shows make fun of the organization, like South Park!
Kujel @ Mar 28th 2008 2:04AM
Don't forget about that episode of Futurama where animal rights nuts taught a lion to eat tofu :D
BPM X: Soul Eraser [SSBB: 5026 4120 1186] @ Mar 28th 2008 3:48AM
"You're vegetarians! Who cares what you do?
Jack (SFC: 4983 4617 3409) @ Mar 28th 2008 12:53PM
(paraphrasing)
Leela: Animals EAT eachother all the time!
TheOneCalledSmellyHippie: Nah-uh! We taught a lion how to eat tofu!
Lion: *sickly cough*
Silvertusk @ Mar 28th 2008 2:03PM
Major failure, Awesome.
The Jiggliest One @ Mar 28th 2008 1:52AM
PETA just has a image problem. Anyone remember when Ace Ventura punched that old man in the face and wore him around his neck? Point made.
Kujel @ Mar 28th 2008 5:01AM
Jim Carry was making fun for animal nuts, I'm sure he's not for animal abuse but neither is he against eating them.
BlaqueBeird @ Mar 28th 2008 11:54PM
I don't think Jim Carey's opinion is any more relevant than anyone else's. And why are you talking about him anyway? He didn't make any statement whatsoever in taht movie, the writer and director controlled what was done, not the actor.
The Jiggliest One @ Mar 31st 2008 2:25PM
**rubs head**
Y'all missed the point. It isn't that Carry supports PETA but that his character in the film was likeable (while at the same time being a joke). Personally I do not care for PETA causes but neither do I have the unreasonable hatred that many on this blog do.
ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Mar 28th 2008 2:03AM
I don't care much about which political or belief standpoint games take on (freedom of speech, right?) no matter how ridiculous I might personally think, but that last statement about animal characters not being subject to human laws is silly.
If they're to be considered as animal characters, then don't make them do human actions. I'd wear an ingame animal character furcoat anyday, whilst chomping my Kentucky Firaga Chocobo.
Fernando Rocker @ Mar 28th 2008 2:09AM
Chocobos are delicious... specially in this time of the year =p
Cyro @ Mar 28th 2008 8:37AM
What's a Chocobo ?
Cyro @ Mar 28th 2008 9:52AM
What's so bad of not knowing what a chocobo is ?!
I dont know dam it.
Cheese Muffin @ Mar 28th 2008 10:10AM
Dear Cyro,
Lrn2Google. Don't know something? Look it up. Not your personal gaming encyclopedia.
SKI @ Mar 28th 2008 10:36AM
Is it bad if I drop the h and think they would taste like chocolate?
ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Mar 28th 2008 2:21PM
A chocobo is a yellow bird mount in Final Fantasy.
Batzarro @ Mar 28th 2008 7:14PM
Well, I agree. I mean, I'm sure when that racoon isn't protesting Burberrie(or however it's called) he's eating cute fishies and frogs and insects. HYPOCRITE RACOON!
ZapDash @ Mar 28th 2008 2:17AM
Trained penguins didn't work too well in Batman Returns now did it?
Just ask Danny Devito.
Synner @ Mar 28th 2008 2:40AM
I like to pretend THOSE Batman movies don't exist.
ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Mar 28th 2008 3:13AM
I thought that Tim Burton's work was a masterpiece.
Rususeruru @ Mar 28th 2008 7:58AM
off topic but Batman and Batman: Returns were enjoyable...
anything between Batman: Returns and Batman Begins should be ignored...
except for Mr. Freeze dying and Alicia Silverstone's Batgirl outfit.
Synner @ Mar 28th 2008 2:47AM
I hate Peta.
I love how they are so against animal testing, yet their VP uses animal based insulin. but really, it's ok cause she needs HER life to save animals, but your diabetic grandma? she can just fuck off.
Reformation @ Mar 28th 2008 9:56PM
I have never met anyone who would take anything PETA does seriously. They are a full time parody of themselves.
DrXym @ Mar 28th 2008 5:17AM
Not to mention putting down dogs, and funding animal rights terrorism. They're hypocrites.
Worse is that they push emotive lies to kids about poor wittle animals and food products to justify their nonsense. They're attention whores, hypocrites and extremist fuckwits.
Meanwhile the people in your local animal shelter, PDSA, SPCA, Humane Society etc. tirelessly work for the actual betterment of animals and prosecution of cruelty cases.
Sora267 @ Mar 28th 2008 11:45AM
I thought human insulin was engineered to be produced by bacteria, not animals..And PETA fights for animal rights, not bacterial rights.
Let's start a bacterial rights organization!!!
Sora267 @ Mar 28th 2008 11:46AM
Err, I worded that wrong. I meant to say that the BACTERIA was engineered to produce the insulin, not the other way around >_