Nov 19 2008
Cooking Mama Drama
Oh PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), how you continue to puzzle and disturb me.
Because Cooking Mama does not offer a vegetarian only game version - and because killing animals for food is violent and murderous - PETA decided to release its own unauthorized version of Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals. Now, I was diligent: I played through the whole thing. Did you know, according to PETA:
Dead Turkeys still have blood in them after slaughter - so they bleed when their feathers are plucked, when you take out their organs, when you cut their head off, etc?
Blood and feathers come out of eggs when you crack them?
Giblet gravy often has a problem with feet, feathers, bones, and other strange objects getting in it?
… yeah. So after three stages of making a bloody, nasty looking turkey dinner, you redeem Mama and help her make Tofu Turkey. Yaaaaay. Your reward (besides videos and the encouragement to pledge to be veg?):
Frightening.
Look, PETA: Just because there are many poorly sustained meat producing practices out there, does not mean that ALL meat production is poorly sustained. Nor does it mean that meat is, somehow, inhumane. I’m sorry darlings, but if you know that we evolved from apes, then you know that being omnivorous is in our blood. And for you to take it to a simple, friendly little cooking game just makes me laugh.
Note: I’m not opposed to vegetarianism. I’m opposed to PETA’s inaccurate representation of the consumption of meat, and the idea that eating meat is inhumane.
