PETA plans on making more games to spread message

by Alexander Sliwinski { Nov 24th 2008 at 9:40AM }

PETA intends on creating more games to raise awareness about practices within the meat industry. The organization states that its recent Cooking Mama game wasn't an attack on publisher Majesco, but a way of getting its "Meet your Meat" video -- an unsettling "undercover video" of a corporate turkey farm -- in front of fresh eyes.

Speaking with GI.biz, a PETA spokesperson said the organization uses games to raise awareness in people who "may be turned off by more direct appeals." It originally turned to games to attract young males, but has since learned the demographics are much wider. The group believes Majesco took the parody in the way it was intended, which seems like a reasonable assumption considering the publisher's lighthearted response. Despite all the joking, PETA does hope that Majesco makes a Cooking Mama: Vegetarian Kitchen "one day."

Source - PETA: We'll keep using games "to spread our message" [GI.biz]
Source - Cooking Mama Responds to PETA Parody [PETA]

Tags: activism, cooking-mama, cooking-mama-world-kitchen, parody, peta

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

offday @ Nov 24th 2008 9:47AM

Cool. And I will keep playing them while laughing and shoving more meat into my mouth.

MikeO. @ Nov 24th 2008 11:01AM

That's what she... nevermind.

D_Average @ Nov 24th 2008 11:37AM

No kidding, that last game just made me hungry for Thanksgiving. Major fail.

BananaBoat @ Nov 24th 2008 1:42PM

Yep, the ratio of meat that I digest to games made by PETA is 100:1 (100 pounds of meat for every 1 game they make)

Negativecool @ Nov 24th 2008 5:11PM

I think PETA took a badly calculated mistep if they thought that killing animals, blood, and a crazy lady with a knife, wouldn't translate into a frickin sweet video game.

Memo to PETA:

Games are not real life, violence is/can be fun in videogames. Killing is fun in videogames. Murdering animals and eating them is also a fun past time (Oregon Trail anyone?) in videogames. Furthermore, you are dimwitted animal humping morons.

Thanks
-Neg-

Chris G. @ Nov 24th 2008 9:52AM

Peta needs to just send people to this address to get their REAL message across.

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

WiredKnight @ Nov 25th 2008 4:05PM

Clearly we just need to make a game to raise awareness about practices within PETA.

xGeneral DEATHx (Mr ESC Welcome Back Party Ultimate Mega Action Force) @ Nov 24th 2008 9:52AM

Here we ho again.

Rollins @ Nov 24th 2008 11:09AM

And ho again we shall!

BananaBoat @ Nov 24th 2008 1:41PM

If you're lucky I might just Ho three times and drop a present on you.

Eddie @ Nov 24th 2008 9:53AM

I hope they get sued for copyright infingement.

Courtney @ Nov 24th 2008 11:55AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody#Copyright_issues

PoisonedV @ Nov 24th 2008 6:58PM

You hope they get sued for copyright infringement, but when it's a fangame or a parody game, you think they shouldn't? be consistent you asshole

Eddie @ Nov 25th 2008 10:36AM

Man people, get off of your high horse and trip over a sense of humor.

The Artist formally known as Jesus @ Nov 24th 2008 9:54AM

I don't about you guys but I enjoyed their Cooking Mama game. I hope they make more :D

Wiinterfang @ Nov 24th 2008 10:04AM

But Jesus didn't you Eat Fishes and Cheese when you where Alive? don't agree with PETA jesus, not you please...*sobs*

Wiinterfang @ Nov 24th 2008 10:01AM

Dear Joystiq.

Stop Talking about PETA!!!.

*Enjoys Egg's and Ham Sandwich*

FSK405K @ Nov 24th 2008 10:01AM

Cool! If I can dismember more animals, I'm all for it. Speaking of which, here's a fun video of cow processing in Egypt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alZiSWqPyQI

A Pissed-off English Gamer @ Nov 24th 2008 10:19AM

Oh come on, guys. The conditions in animal farming are atrocious, and the fact is, whether you like to admit it or not, a cow, pig, chicken or a sheep can have just as much personality as a cat or a dog. I don't know if gaming is a good medium to spread this (very true) message, but I do know that being cynical about it and pretending it doesn't matter is far worse than PETA's parody game. I'm not a vegetarian, but I will always take a free-range alternative if I can.

Magetto @ Nov 24th 2008 10:25AM

I'm all for giving animals better conditions to live in before we eat them, but what PETA advocates is crazy. If they had their way it would be illegal to own any sort of pet, illegal to eat any sort of animal (and we'd end up destroying our ego system completely clearing land for all of the farms we would need to feed everyone, which incidentally would kill all of the animals in the process), illegal to use animals for any sort of medical drug testing, even if it would definitely result in say a cure for cancer it wouldn't be allowed. Lets also not forget that they kill most of the animals they're suppose to care for, and that they've been known to support domestic terrorist groups. PETA is crazy, don't support them.

offday @ Nov 24th 2008 10:30AM

I agree with Magetto. I'm all for animals being treated better, but PETA takes it way too far.

DBoyFlex @ Nov 24th 2008 10:53AM

They are going in the right direction, but have just gone too far.

DrXym @ Nov 24th 2008 10:53AM

If you object to farming conditions, support a legitimate organisation such as Compassion in World Farming. Their website is full of useful advice for helping improve animal welfare. They manage to promote welfare without the attention grabbing hysterics and nutball mindset that PETA brings along.

Lee @ Nov 24th 2008 11:54AM

I only buy free range eggs and properly treated food (or animals before they're easily edible) from proper outlets. Mostly buy food from local farmers and butchers where I know the animals life story and children so I can eat them too.

Pedobear @ Nov 24th 2008 3:15PM

Even if a cow, pig, or chicken can have just as much of a personality as my cat, it doesn't matter to me. My cat is cute and pigs, chickens, and cows not so much.

A Pissed-off English Gamer @ Nov 25th 2008 9:10AM

I agree with all of you, bar pedobear; PETA does go about their cause in an utterly silly way, and advocate rights for animals over humans, it seems some times.

As for pedobear, are you insane? That's like saying ugly people can just die because the fact they're not attractive means they don't matter.

offday @ Nov 24th 2008 10:05AM

Help to make abortions illegla, PETA, and then maybe I'll start to care about that hamburger on my plate. Sorry, but humans > animals.

DEEZNUTZ @ Nov 24th 2008 12:10PM

Exactly! +100

bobartig @ Nov 24th 2008 5:03PM

Wait, but why would you want to make abortion illegal?

Don't you mean "protect womens' civil liberties by keeping abortion legal"?

John @ Nov 25th 2008 11:14AM

I'll protect woman's civil liberties to murder their children when my civil liberties to murder idiots starts getting protected

fred @ Nov 25th 2008 7:01PM

YA THOSE WOMEN FOLK DON'T NEED BASIC RIGHTS, WE CARE MORE ABOUT THE CLUSTER OF CELLS IN THEIR STOMACH

IT'S THEIR OWN FAULT FOR HAVING WORKING OVARIES

offday @ Nov 25th 2008 7:13PM

Cluster of cells? You sir, are both uneducated and ignorant.

Lee @ Nov 24th 2008 10:08AM

What I didn't understand about that PETA game was cracking open eggs caused them to bleed.

I've probably eaten a few thousand eggs in my life time and I've never come across one that contained more than vitellus and albumen. Or is this just how messed up PETA is?

offday @ Nov 24th 2008 10:14AM

Sometimes if the egg gets fertilized, you might find some blood in one. It's rare, though, and PETA definitely exaggerated it, like they do everything else.

joeybeast @ Nov 24th 2008 10:09AM

Do you know how many animals PETA euthanize a year?

Wiinterfang @ Nov 24th 2008 10:14AM

I don't know but I'm pretty sure they kill thousands of intelligent animals like Cats and Dogs and unlike Cows and Chicken it isn't for the humans interest since those animal can't be food.

offday @ Nov 24th 2008 10:16AM

Well yeah. They have to save those animals from the evil pet owners giving them a warm home, all that evil evil petting, and worst of all...table scraps. *gasp*

xGeneral DEATHx (Mr ESC Welcome Back Party Ultimate Mega Action Force) @ Nov 24th 2008 10:36AM

Warm home, petting, and table scraps?!

Apparently, my cats need rescuing.

Don't tell PETA.

Bucket @ Nov 24th 2008 10:39AM

Exactly. I can't wait for Mercy Killer: The Puppy Gassing Chronicles.

Wiinterfang @ Nov 24th 2008 10:39AM

They will kill your cat if they now.

Kassu @ Nov 24th 2008 10:14AM

The message of patheticness?

Roto13 @ Nov 24th 2008 10:36AM

You know how they say that there's no such thing as bad publicity? Well that's extra true when it comes to these games. I know two people who went out and bought Cooking Mama games after playing the PETA version.

Ayumin @ Nov 24th 2008 10:43AM

That's like PETA falling flat on its face and saying "Ooops! I meant to do that!!!"

Sure the game was funny... (not very fun until I had to make a Tofurkey Dinner) but I didn't see the turkey slaughtering because I wasn't arsed enough to click on the links. Mission failed.

DrXym @ Nov 24th 2008 10:51AM

I would like to see more games where the goal is to pound animals with mallets. Why? No reason except to piss off the PETA nutcases. There are so many legitimate animal welfare organizations that I wonder why anyone gives these hypocritical attention whores the time of day.

T @ Nov 24th 2008 10:53AM

They made the Cooking Mama parody, and it was clever.

Then they responded to the Mama press release, and it was sad.

Now they plan on making more, and it's pathetic.

...All in record time.

frzamonkey @ Nov 24th 2008 10:55AM

The endgame is not "meat is illegal", it is "causing animal suffering is wrong, so we shouldn't do it". peta advocates animal welfare reforms, which is like playing mozart for the inmate on the way to the gas chamber.

until people realize that what they are doing is immoral and logically inconsistant, silly games are just distractions from the goal.

bobartig @ Nov 24th 2008 5:06PM

But even more than that, they advocate vegetarianism/veganism, in outlandish, absurd ways. For instance they wrote a press release to Ben & Jerry's urging them to switch to human breast milk instead of utilizing dairy products. Impossibly unsustainable, and would require enslaving wet nurses to liberate cows. But that's how PETA operates: No actual understanding of what they advocate, and putting animal rights ahead of those of humans.

Kali4 @ Nov 25th 2008 8:54AM

Save the animals, eat PETA members!

At any rate, how is it that PETA can get away with making a game where you bash defenseless little animals with mallets? I thought there were laws in place (lobbied for by PETA and others) that prevented the depiction of cruelty to animals as entertainment. At what point does their little game become so fun that they get sued for making it enjoyable to sadisticly torture animals? And the game IS fun. At this point I am sure that most of the people playing the game are laughing at the wrongness of it and not looking at any of the rest of their propaganda. Maybe in the next version we get to club baby seals. If a real game publisher put out the exact same title PETA would have them shut down. Instead, PETA is making a sequel. Do they generate ad revenue from their website? If so, aren't they now profitting from creualty to animals? Michael Vick is in jail, now it's PETA's turn.