PETA bitches about Cooking Mama

[Dr. Doom]

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Originally Posted by Gamestop

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and perhaps not so coincidentally, Majesco is getting gamers in the mood for good eats with the latest installment in its best-selling Cooking Mama franchise, Cooking Mama World Kitchen. In it, Wii gamers are dropped into a pressure-cooker kitchen environment where they race against the clock to perfect 51 different recipes, ranging from pancakes to octopus dumplings.



Seemingly innocuous enough, but Majesco's World Kitchen has drawn the ire of activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. In response to the Wii game, PETA published a Flash version of Cooking Mama on its Web site in which Majesco's iconic character prepares a turkey dinner in advance of the US's revered feasting day. Titled Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals, the Flash game features gameplay that's akin to what is found in the official version of the game.

Of course, it also exhibits a decidedly macabre bent, replete with Happy Tree Friends-style viscera as well as copious amounts of blood. Between levels, gamers are treated to such fun facts as, "In the US, almost all birds have their throats slit while they're still conscious, and according to the US Department of Agriculture, millions are scalded to death in tanks of hot water."

Following the Flash game, the culmination of which involves gamers concocting a tofu turkey dinner, PETA urges gamers to "politely ask" Majesco to add more vegan recipes to the Cooking Mama line of games, or create a vegetarian edition. "I love the Cooking Mama series and PETA's new parody of it, but I would love to see Mama make more vegetarian recipes or even a game with just vegetarian recipes," reads the prepared note players can sign. "There is no doubt that I would play it!"

Majesco is apparently not of the opinion that PETA's Flash game is better than Mama's. In a press release issued today, the publisher assumed the tone of a willful grandmother, chiding PETA for failing to mention that "World Kitchen includes more than 25 vegetarian-friendly recipes including delicious breakfast, dinner, dessert, and snack options."

"I would never put rat in my Ratatouille," reads Majesco's release, channeling their inner Mama. "Like any accomplished cook, I create my recipes to appeal to a broad range of tastes and preferences. My only goal is to ensure you leave the table well fed." Majesco also notes that while Mama is not herself a vegan, "she fully supports the humane treatment of animals."

I hate PETA. Pretty classy response from Mama though.

[Cipher]

I'm a vegetarian myself, because I oppose the needlessly cruel conditions found on large farms.

That said, I can't stand PETA. Everything they do makes them look so incompetant. Despite their goals, inane protests like this make the cause seem less legitimate than ever.

PETA is to vegetarians as Al Queda is to Muslims. Some might support it, but they're crazy and don't deserve attention.

[poiuytre]

Originally Posted by Cipher

PETA is to vegetarians as Al Queda is to Muslims. Some might support it, but they're crazy and don't deserve attention.

This has to be the most accurate way of describing it I've ever heard.

[Mecha Cow]

And PETA wonders why people don't take them seriously.

[Buslady]

PETA are freaks, they kill pets and resort to rediculous extreme measures.

[Hannah]

I played this game and then I made Tofurkey and it tasted bad

[Drtooth]

PETA... that would be the group that once forced Ben and Jerry's to use human breast milk for ice cream instead of cow milk. Yeah... wrap your heads around that one.

Now they're afraid of animated animals being killed for the sake of an imaginary cooking class. Way to shove your views down our throats. I agree, These guys are one act short of becoming eco-terrorists.

Maybe they need a new spokesperson so people would take them seriously-

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Hannah

I played this game and then I made Tofurkey and it tasted bad

Tofurkey is nasty