So in the name of accuracy and honesty, PETA decided to introduce a little of both.' 'Because the games are so heavy on dishes made from dead animals that the only things missing are the blood and the slaughterhouse. 'Why is PETA picking on poor Mama?' the company explained in a statement. 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. But just so long as the eatin’s good, I guess.PETA, the animal rights activist group, has targeted the DS and Wii franchise, Cooking Mama, in its latest campaign against animal cruelty. One would really think the two would sort of cancel each other out in PETA’s eyes. KotakuĪnd don’t forget, you can ditch the pooch as well, leaving it to suffer and straggle on after injuring it when you fight on your first meeting. So I guess that means they’re OK with you dragging a dog around with you and using him as a weapon in battle. A fun and innovative game, it’s also an effective tool that teaches gamers the real-life benefits of a vegetarian diet. Featuring a strong pro-vegetarian theme, eating a plant-based diet helps you rack up “purity” points, whereas eating meat makes your character fat and evil. Why? In this virtual fight between good and evil, characters powered by tofu are just as powerful as their meat-eating counterpartsâ€”and are more fit and attractive to boot.

The game in question is none other than Microsoft’s Fable II, created by Lionhead Studios:Ĭreated by Microsoft Game Studios, Fable 2 is a vegetarian’s dream come true. But this time, they aren’t here to condemn our virtual chefs, but rather to praise a game for its use of virtual cuisine to display the evils of eating meat.Įven though that sort of makes carnivorous animals evil, too. PETA, creator of the delightfully controversial and copyright-infringing Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals, are back in the video game news.

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