PETA Cooks Up a Wii Controversy
Saturday November 22, 2008
Video games have been blamed for murder, assault and short attention spans, but now gamepolitics.com reports the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have laid another sin at the door of game publishers; eating turkey for Thanksgiving.
Someone at PETA objected to all the meatier recipes in the new Wii game Cooking Mama: World Kitchen, so they made a clever flash game parody called Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals that is decidedly not for the squeamish. This has lead to a back and forth between the Cooking Mama's publisher Majesco publisher and PETA.
It's a pretty clever way for PETA to get some publicity, but it's pretty silly to insist on a vegetarian Cooking Mama; a million vegetarian video games are not going to make tofurkey popular. This is the danger of being the most popular cooking game franchise; PETA didn't raise any objections to Order Up!'s menu.
Comments
I have to admit, the parody is fun to play, if you’re not offended by virtual blood and guts.
I honestly don’t see anything wrong with having a vegetarian cooking mama game. Although maybe that’s because I’m a member of PETA and have read the whole story behind the idea. I don’t know, but there are plenty of vegetarians out there who would play it. That’s for sure.