PETA attacks Take-Two over Ringling Bros. on Wii

by David Hinkle on May 13th 2009 5:00PM

Take-Two's upcoming Ringling Bros. game for Wii and DS looks to recreate all of the stuff you'd see at a real-life circus show. And that's why PETA hates it so much.

In a blog post, PETA sends out a call to arms, asking folks to send Ben Feder, Take-Two's CEO, an email asking him to cease and desist development on the game. In fact, PETA already did most of the work for you by filling out the subject line and body of your potential email with things we're sure you'd want to say to the CEO of a multi-million dollar company.

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Tags: Nintendo, peta, ringling-bros, take-two, Wii

Reader Comments (109)

It's a fucking video game.

It's just a video game - that contains smiling black men and elephants. It can only go downhill.

SMILING BLACK MEN???

Well that, my good man, is racist. I am offended.

@ Jason

You're African American? Here I was thinking you were British...

Guys, whenever Ringling Bros. does anything PETA pitches a fit - so nobody should be shocked that its over a game this time around. If it was RB brand anything PETA would scream.

Racist summabitch

I'm going to assume that wasn't aimed at me.

come on duke...you said nothing that can even be REMOTELY seen as racist...lol...of course it wasnt directed at you....

I have no problem with being called white, in fact, I would prefer it to Irish-American.

@ArchGamer
British people can't be black??

Yeah I was just kidding with ya.

I'm sure PETA would have a field day with Dragon Age if this upset em, what with all the animal killing.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/49052.html

Mmmmm blood and violence.

@ pumpkin54

Yes, but I don't think Jason Statham is black, at least in appearance.

ummm... I feel really sorry for anyone who owns this game.
I dont care which age, i still feel bad

@ArchGamer

Because all black people are African-American, even the ones who have never been to America.

They're called black people for the same reason white people are called white people.

is it just me or did this disappear 3 seconds after being posted only to be re-posted another 3 seconds later?

It's the magic of the Stiq.
Also, you can't delete your comments, another magical element of the Stiq.

that's just to keep stupid assholes from covering their tracks when they fuck up

Also known as the "Edit" button.

Why would People for Eating Tasty Animals be against the circus...

What you did there...

I see it.

When does that 'mexican zombie zoo massacre' game from High Voltage come out?

Lol PeTA fails again.

We need a version PETA in order to stop PETA.

We can call it MEATA: Members Eating All The Animals

This?

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

PETA: People for the Extermination of reTarded Animal-rights-activists.

@ Zantac

I'd follow that notion to ends of the earth.

"We can call it MEATA: Members Eating All The Animals"

No, we'll still call it PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals

Just to piss them off.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=sponsor

Oh PETA. It's kind of cute how desperate they are to get attention.

Can we have the name of the article changed to just "PETA Attacks"?

I think Peta needs to Relax and have a nice warm, toasted roast beef Sub from subway and forget about everything..... oh wait. Thee the reason PETA is so angry and vengeful all the time is because they are Vegans. Which means they are missing some essential vitamins and minerals in their diet they have to take in pill form. I heard Iron deficiency does that to ppl. Makes 'em moody.

Peta are retarded idiots, there's no question about that.

But just because they're retarded doesn't give people who oppose them the right to be so too.
The simple fact that they're vegans doesn't alter their mood/mentality enough to make them behave the way they do. Iron deficiency is not a common problem among non-carnivorous people, Iron is very common among a lot of plant life (and for the record, protein is too, even moreso common).
On top of which, you say they take it in pill form (thus getting it) but they have a deficiency of it?

Come on... don't fight retards with more retardation... fight it with information.

peta is a joke. what little good that group does is undone every time they 'protest' something stupid. IMO theyve lost focus and spend more time trying to generate publicity for the organization than the causes they 'believe in".

I'd say you hit the nail on the head. +1

They seem to enjoy spending more time generating money. They get huge donations from celebs and then right off the celebs for having practices that they are against. They also put 95% of the animals they took into their shelter asleep.

Hypocricts. Not only do they encourage radical destruction and implied killing of humans, the bastards kill animals themselves. In 2000, the head of PETA said that the shelter they run could be a no-kill shelter. Then why isn't it? Because it costs too much money even though they bring a ton of celeb money in for their asinine cause.

Sorry, I'm raging today. I hate these super hypocritical bastards.

@asher

It could be a no-kill shelter. They just send the animals they want to kill off to some other site. THUS the shelter it self is "no-kill"

This is all I have to say:

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/release/258

"WASHINGTON DC – Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills an average of 5.8 pets every day at its Norfolk, VA headquarters."

Yeah...go fuck yourselves Peta.

really, after that, what more can be said?

Gat Dayum!!!

ummmm yea why ARE they still talking?? they killed more Dogs than Mike Vick

This game is a day one purchase now.

Agreed. I may buy it simply because PETA is against it. Maybe it will be my donation to Child's Play this year.

Really? Enjoy your $50 horrible waggle-based minigame collection. That'll learn'em.

@Nathan

I think you're missing the point. Try to keep up.

I completely get "voting with your dollar". What I don't get is paying a premium for casual tripe. Though I'm glad in this economy you have the expendable income to make purchases as invisible gestures. And yes, I realize no one actually will buy this game as a statement, this is just internet-anonymity fueled braggadocio, making this and my earlier comment, moot.

Just stop posting stuff about PETA and they will go away, they're real life forum trolls.

we could all do that, but greedy celebrities eager to get their image across as "green friendly" will keep doing naked ads for PETA because they have no fucking idea how hypocritical and stupid the organization is

Their the next Jack Thompson.

The ringmaster used to my music teacher back in high school, im proud of him to be honest.

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