Mama Kills Animals wasn't meant as an attack on either the Cooking Mama series or publisher Majesco, the group claimed, but rather against the meat industry. "Many people are unaware of the real-life violence that animals endure on factory farms and in slaughterhouses," a PETA spokesperson told GamesIndustry. "As the largest animal rights organization in the world, PETA acts to raise awareness of this issue. Given the popularity of games today - and especially the increased popularity of cooking games - we've decided to use this medium to spread our message. We use games to highlight the cruelty to animals because they appeal to people who are interested but may be turned off by more direct appeals."
The group said it initially began using videogames as a way to attract young males, but soon realized that the gaming audience was far more diverse than it initially thought. "Given the huge success that we've had with Super Chick Sisters and Mama Kills Animals, we will definitely be creating many, many more games," the rep said. "We plan on continuing to use videogames as a way of engaging the public, both by continuing to create our own games and by engaging with gaming companies, as we did when we approached Sega with the request that it not use apes in its adverts. Gaming, both casual and hardcore, is on the rise, and we recognize that as a medium, gaming is as important as music, movies, and television."
The spokesman added that the timing of Mama Kills Animals, which came out one day before the release of Cooking Mama: World Kitchen, helped generate a "huge amount of buzz" that was ultimately good for both the game and Majesco. Pointing to the publisher's lighthearted and decidedly non-litigational response, the rep said, "I think that Majesco understands that the buzz that we created is good for the company. We're still hoping that Majesco will make Cooking Mama: Vegetarian Kitchen one day."
"Our game isn't an attack on the videogame industry. It's an attack on the meat industry," the spokesperson continued. "We love games (that's why we've created so many), and we love the Cooking Mama series."
And they spread their message with heinous misinformation, by portraying the meat industry as some of sick twisted place where animals are tortured and killed for fun and not food!
The meat industry does some deplorable things, but at the end of the day they give us food. PETA on the other hand just lies through their teeth, pulls stunts and makes pretty stupid news releases to garner attention...
Because PETA is the only group, that was stupid enough to think it would work, (admittedly it did, so...). Also most other organizations wouldn't go to such extremes to lobby a cause, because they are decent.
Limos: How is it PETA is the only organization to recognize Video Games a legitimate medium? I mean really? PETA?
I know, right? Next it'll be scientologists.
PETA are an independent, liberally minded group with a generally younger-than-average membership and a passion for a cause - they are effectively the only group likely to catch on at this point.
i think PETA is onto something here. A game with obscene amounts of blood and gore while intentionally trying to disturb the player? I'd buy it and eat KFC while playing.
Not from what I've seen, they seem to be pretty damn militant about people believing/not believing exactly what they do.
Yeah, it takes a pretty open mind to understand that Liberal does not mean liberal does not mean liberal. i.e. i liberally throw oregano on my chicken while watching Liberals argue against liberal ideas.
Sure, their meat will be stringy and probably poisonous, but we'll be making a point.
I second that. Save a cow, eat a vegetarian
*cough* Uh, hello?
I doubt any of us want this
Don't piss us off, we'll do it.
I didn't mean to poke fun at/offend all vegetarians, I just thought that "save a cow, eat a PETA member" didn't sound as smooth and I just couldn't resist the opurtunity to make a funny comment.
Limos: How is it PETA is the only organization to recognize Video Games a legitimate medium? I mean really? PETA?
I know, right? Next it'll be scientologists.
PETA are an independent, liberally minded group with a generally younger-than-average membership and a passion for a cause - they are effectively the only group likely to catch on at this point.
Yes, but, like scientologists, they are also pants-on-head retarded.
Limos: How is it PETA is the only organization to recognize Video Games a legitimate medium? I mean really? PETA?
I know, right? Next it'll be scientologists.
PETA are an independent, liberally minded group with a generally younger-than-average membership and a passion for a cause - they are effectively the only group likely to catch on at this point.
Yes, but, like scientologists, they are also pants-on-head retarded.
And you would go about showing people how these animals are treated how? They tried peaceful solutions and they just got called hippies and written off. Now they try to be a bit more in your face.
Limos: How is it PETA is the only organization to recognize Video Games a legitimate medium? I mean really? PETA?
I know, right? Next it'll be scientologists.
PETA are an independent, liberally minded group with a generally younger-than-average membership and a passion for a cause - they are effectively the only group likely to catch on at this point.
Yes, but, like scientologists, they are also pants-on-head retarded.
And you would go about showing people how these animals are treated how? They tried peaceful solutions and they just got called hippies and written off. Now they try to be a bit more in your face.
Hmm, I dunno, maybe by not being a bunch of propaganda-spewing morons?
Limos: How is it PETA is the only organization to recognize Video Games a legitimate medium? I mean really? PETA?
I know, right? Next it'll be scientologists.
PETA are an independent, liberally minded group with a generally younger-than-average membership and a passion for a cause - they are effectively the only group likely to catch on at this point.
Yes, but, like scientologists, they are also pants-on-head retarded.
And you would go about showing people how these animals are treated how? They tried peaceful solutions and they just got called hippies and written off. Now they try to be a bit more in your face.
For the love of god do not try to defend the eco-terrorists. They equate animal life with human life, if not moreso. They are not hippies- they give Hippies a bad name. They're militant close minded violent brutes.
Indigo_Dingo: And you would go about showing people how these animals are treated how? They tried peaceful solutions and they just got called hippies and written off. Now they try to be a bit more in your face.
...overlooking the fact that most people do not care.
The last time I checked, meat is dead; why should I or anyone give a damn if it had 'a happy life'? It's dead and I just cooked and ate it. It's irrelevant. It's only purpose is to be killed, cooked and eaten.
Limos: How is it PETA is the only organization to recognize Video Games a legitimate medium? I mean really? PETA?
I know, right? Next it'll be scientologists.
PETA are an independent, liberally minded group with a generally younger-than-average membership and a passion for a cause - they are effectively the only group likely to catch on at this point.
Yes, but, like scientologists, they are also pants-on-head retarded.
And you would go about showing people how these animals are treated how? They tried peaceful solutions and they just got called hippies and written off. Now they try to be a bit more in your face.
Yeah there's a difference between being in your face and being a nazi. They are the latter.
The headline that PeTA likes video games makes me want to put my consoles in a sack and hurl the sack into a river and hurl the river into space. (ten points to whoever gets the reference)
Indigo_Dingo: And you would go about showing people how these animals are treated how? They tried peaceful solutions and they just got called hippies and written off. Now they try to be a bit more in your face.
I wouldn't mind them being "in [my] face" so much if they didn't lie so much. Telling primary-school kids that drinking milk will make your face break out in zits... or that they're "rescuing" animals only to kill them...
If you have to lie to get your point across, your point's not worth making.
HalfShadow: Let's eat PETA members. Sure, their meat will be stringy and probably poisonous, but we'll be making a point.
I dunno, as long as you tenderise it first and marinate it well, could be quite succulent.
Can anyone else see this backfiring massively on PETA? Whilst they have a valid point to be putting across sooner or later they are going to step on someone's toes. Someone without the same level of humour as Majesco and an army of Lawyers. Or they'll come up with something so horrific it only gains them negative publicity.
Limos: How is it PETA is the only organization to recognize Video Games a legitimate medium? I mean really? PETA?
I know, right? Next it'll be scientologists.
Actually there is a game called scientology pwned were you mow down hords pf scientologists trying to headbutt you to death. But i dont think scientologist endorse it in any way.
PETA needs to calm down this is the third or four thing i have head from them in two months. They started off on some baseball player for saying his favorite food was Spam and now this thing with Cooking Mama. oh and when did two games make "so many" does that mean i can claim i have made a lot because i did some crappy C++ games.
Mama Kills Animals wasn't meant as an attack on either the Cooking Mama series or publisher Majesco, the group claimed...
I love how PETA said that in a press release when there's a blood-stained Majesco logo in the picture of the opening post. Did anyone else see that after reading their statement and think that was kinda odd?
They're claiming it was tongue in cheek because they don't want to get Sued. Personally I think Majesco made a mistake by not hammering these pricks legally.
Hunde Des Krieg: The headline that PeTA likes video games makes me want to put my consoles in a sack and hurl the sack into a river and hurl the river into space. (ten points to whoever gets the reference)
Indigo_Dingo: And you would go about showing people how these animals are treated how? They tried peaceful solutions and they just got called hippies and written off. Now they try to be a bit more in your face.
...overlooking the fact that most people do not care.
The last time I checked, meat is dead; why should I or anyone give a damn if it had 'a happy life'? It's dead and I just cooked and ate it. It's irrelevant. It's only purpose is to be killed, cooked and eaten.
Thank you for giving me the perfect example of why PETA keep doing this.
For the record, I am not a member of PETA. What I am is a person who doesn't believe that animals should be born into a living hell and then slaughtered just cause you guys prefer the taste slightly over tofu.
Funnily enough, I didn't know anything about gutting a Turkey before playing this game, now my Christmas dinner list shall include a Turkey... I think I'm going to make a PETA cookery program, with some seriously fucked off presenter angrily showing everyone how to a chicken dinner from scratch or something; "And you pull the f*king giblets out like THIS you f*king animals..."
Indigo_Dingo: And you would go about showing people how these animals are treated how? They tried peaceful solutions and they just got called hippies and written off. Now they try to be a bit more in your face.
...overlooking the fact that most people do not care.
The last time I checked, meat is dead; why should I or anyone give a damn if it had 'a happy life'? It's dead and I just cooked and ate it. It's irrelevant. It's only purpose is to be killed, cooked and eaten.
Thank you for giving me the perfect example of why PETA keep doing this.
For the record, I am not a member of PETA. What I am is a person who doesn't believe that animals should be born into a living hell and then slaughtered just cause you guys prefer the taste slightly over tofu.
Well that and humans are omnivores thanks to evolution and meat (and meat byproducts such as milk) carries essential nutrients the body needs to work properly, but why let facts get in the way of outright lying, right?
And i'm sure all animals are born into a living hell, like having a free-range pasture to roam in like the farm in the town over from my hometown, oh wait.
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PETA Hates Meat, Loves Videogames
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals may have been widely panned by gamers for their recent Cooking Mama parody Mama Kills Animals, but in fact the group is quite pleased by the attention and plans on creating "many, many more games" in the future.
Mama Kills Animals wasn't meant as an attack on either the Cooking Mama series or publisher Majesco, the group claimed, but rather against the meat industry. "Many people are unaware of the real-life violence that animals endure on factory farms and in slaughterhouses," a PETA spokesperson told GamesIndustry. "As the largest animal rights organization in the world, PETA acts to raise awareness of this issue. Given the popularity of games today - and especially the increased popularity of cooking games - we've decided to use this medium to spread our message. We use games to highlight the cruelty to animals because they appeal to people who are interested but may be turned off by more direct appeals."
The group said it initially began using videogames as a way to attract young males, but soon realized that the gaming audience was far more diverse than it initially thought. "Given the huge success that we've had with Super Chick Sisters and Mama Kills Animals, we will definitely be creating many, many more games," the rep said. "We plan on continuing to use videogames as a way of engaging the public, both by continuing to create our own games and by engaging with gaming companies, as we did when we approached Sega with the request that it not use apes in its adverts. Gaming, both casual and hardcore, is on the rise, and we recognize that as a medium, gaming is as important as music, movies, and television."
The spokesman added that the timing of Mama Kills Animals, which came out one day before the release of Cooking Mama: World Kitchen, helped generate a "huge amount of buzz" that was ultimately good for both the game and Majesco. Pointing to the publisher's lighthearted and decidedly non-litigational response, the rep said, "I think that Majesco understands that the buzz that we created is good for the company. We're still hoping that Majesco will make Cooking Mama: Vegetarian Kitchen one day."
"Our game isn't an attack on the videogame industry. It's an attack on the meat industry," the spokesperson continued. "We love games (that's why we've created so many), and we love the Cooking Mama series."
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