PETA's parody on Majesco's Cooking Mama franchise may be the best Flash-based game we've seen from the activist group yet. Following up on its Bloody Burberry and Super Chick Sisters games, Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals takes a stab at soon-to-be-released Cooking Mama: World Kitchen, not to mention the main course of most Thanksgiving meals. The game is done in perfect Cooking Mama style - having the player pull out the bird's feathers and then scoop out its innards. Whether you agree with the message or not, it's the medium and style that got our attention.
PETA does give some constructive feedback to Majesco, asking if it could make an all vegetarian-recipe version of Cooking Mama. Considering how important Mama is to Majesco's cash flow, a vegetarian version might be a good marketing ploy. PETA's Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals can be played after the break (Warning: Sound auto-plays and is loud).*
*The "Meet your Meat" video, which becomes available after finishing the game, may be difficult to watch. Don't click the link if you're not interested in seeing what a corporate turkey farm looks like.
Parody is protected, but what about the fact that the game uses Cooking Mama's logo? I guess we need a lawyer in here to tell us whether this is fine or not.
Paradoying a logo is fine as long as you have deep pockets to fight off the inevitable lawsuit that will follow, otherwise you will be denied your right to free speech by a big corporation, just like Kieron Dwyer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieron_Dwyer
Actually regarding Vegetarians,they usually give themselves bad name thanks to a bunch of self-righteous "If you don't believe in my ways then you're a barbaric asshole with no heart who kills puppies" extremist vegetarians who will give you a half-an-hour speech every time they see you eating meat.
Normal Vegetarians are pretty cool people though.Having your own rules and sticking by them is awesome.
Facts? What facts? This is the same PETA that would rather euthanize puppies than give them a good home because pet ownership, to them, is akin to slavery. This is the same PETA that is completely against animal testing of any kind even though their senior vice president uses insulin, a hormone which was discovered only through animal experimentation during the turn of the 20th century. And don't give me that, "Well it's produced by genetically engineered bacteria instead of being extracted from ox pancreases today, so it's okay" bullshit either. You can't be against animal testing and then reap the rewards of it every day without being a hypocrite of the absolute worst kind.
I know where my meat comes from. At 6 years old I wasn't only raising my own chickens, I was also the person who slaughtered and cleaned them when they were mature enough to eat. I've bottle fed calves I knew would some day get sent to the butcher. Yet, 15 years later I'm still an omnivore. Why? When you know the animal on your plate, A) you feel grateful for the nutrition it provides you and B) you avoid waste at absolutely any cost.
If you want to be a vegetarian, be the best damn vegetarian you can be. If you believe in equal animal rights, I'm not going to attack you for it either. But the moment you come here and start pushing your beliefs on other people, I'll verbally hand you your own ass on a silver plate. As far as PETA's concerned, it's an organization comprised of hypocritical idiots who do far more harm to their own cause than their absolute worst critics can; they're just too stupid to admit it.
I must say regardless of how fun this game is, I am sick of PETA. They are a bunch of crazy people. They want TOTAL animal liberation. That means no pets, no seeing eye dogs, no medical research, nothing. Now this is not to say I, or any normal person, would advocate animal cruelty. PETA goes too far. It breaks down like this PETA's view: Animals > People My view: People > Animals > PETA
In my view People == Animals. But why is a Lion allowed to attack, kill and eat a Gazelle, yet Humans aren't allowed to do the same thing with chickens etc?
Rofl, I typed this up on the PETA forums, thanks for that line, mate.
Oh gosh, when I played that game, it simply reminded me of Thanksgiving dinner and how delicious my uncle's turkey was and always will be.
I can't wait until Thanksgiving.
But the game itself was pretty fun.
Well, I'm curious though, how did Cooking Mama have an instantaneous change of heart and started cooking a tofu turkey? I mean, I'd understand if she changed her mind over time after many years of repression and forced labor upon these turkeys, cutting them up and thinking if there is a better way to eat "turkey."
And when she did start cooking tofu turkey, what did she do with her horrible mess of an actual turkey? She didn't seem to be a very good cook. Did she just chuck it in the garbage? Gosh, that's barely a proper way to throw away bio-waste.
And bio-waste affects all people and animals negatively when not properly disposed.
Plus, Cooking Mama doesn't kill animals, she prepares animals that are already dead. As a matter of fact, she didn't do any killing in this game either. I was disappointed.
