Time for an angry post. I'll begin with Greenpeace, which I'm sure you're familiar with.



Greenpeace goes to all the big electronics companies, including video game companies, and of course that includes Nintendo. Greenpeace knocks on the company's door and asks for their policies concerning recycling, manufacturing emissions, and all that other junk. Nintendo didn't respond to their questions. In other words, they didn't disclose any information. They said nothing.

This is how Greenpeace responded.



Now, don't look at anything other than the far left. Look at Nintendo. They're in the red. This is what Greenpeace has to say:

"Nintendo remains in last place with a pitiful 0.8 points out of 10, scoring zero on all e-waste criteria. The company has banned phthalates and is monitoring use of antimony and beryllium and although it is endeavouring to eliminate the use of PVC, it has not set a timeline for its phase out. Nintendo discloses carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its own operations and commits to cutting CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases by 2% over each previous year. However, Nintendo admits that an increase in business led to a 6% rise in CO2 emissions in 2006."

Now just take a glance at that. It means nothing. This just shows how vague Nintendo was in their response, and how little Greenpeace knows concerning this subject.

If Greenpeace wants to get these companies to "follow suit" when it comes to eliminating their Greenhouse emissions, I don't think they should just stamp a ZERO on Nintendo's report. That gives absolutely no information, while their mission should be (and is) to INFORM both the community and the company about the environment and the cruciality of the current environmental siutation. This misinformed thrash at Nintendo's policies is the exact opposite- misinformed and misinforming.

More recently, Greenpeace released a statement on the big three companies, Microsoft, Sony, and Ninty from toxic's campaigner Iza Kruzewska. Here's what our pal EDGE ONLINE had to say about Iza.

"Kruszewska goes on to explain that Nintendo are barely disclosing any of their practices, and as such, receive no points for eleven of the fifteen categories."

Also Iza says, "I’ve never been able to get an answer from them aside from a couple of marketing people in the UK who have been trying to forward the messages to global headquarters in Japan, but we get no response from Nintendo.

What sense does this make? Absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence. This doesn't warrant making up an answer and asserting it as evidence.

Lastly, I respect the environment and want the company and industry that I support to respect it as well. I support Greenpeace's philosophy of peace and environmental conservation. However, I don't believe such an approach as Iza's is a correct nor effective method of affirming a company's policies towards this topic. If we want to help the earth, we need to work together, and what you're doing isn't helping anyone. If you're going to say something, make it accurate and get those facts straight. Plz.

Now on to something completely different. PETA. Oh, PETA...

The recent casual trend that Nintendo has brought into the game industry has helped the company to flourish and the market to expand. Nintendo's innovative ideas with the DS and the Wii have spurred a new genre of interactive, simple games. One such game is Cooking Mama, the objective is simple- cook food. Most of us like food, and I'm sure a lot of us like meat. Let's take a look at Cooking Mama.



Oh snap- is that Mama cooking? Is that Mama pulverizing meat? That won't do at all. I bet that meat came from an animal- a cow perhaps?

PETA didn't like this one bit- so what did they do? They didn't release a statement, they didn't complain, they made..



A flash game. A flash game where you kill turkeys, grossly exaggerating the simple actions made in the video game (which I own, by the way). I'm not going to put it here because it's gross and disgusting. The response was like that of a viral flash game made for fun and not to inform. This sort of gruesome propaganda didn't go well with the target audience, and if you take a look at comments below posts containing the game, the audience doesn't feel motivated to protect these animals or respect PETA for that matter. Comments like "F&$* YOU PETA" aren't signs of a great response from the gaming crowd.

This response, while it may be informed about the injustices of animal treatment, doesn't help to appeal to the gaming crowd. I can bet that no one was moved to become a vegan after watching how blatantly exaggerated and disgusting the flash game parody was. Casual and hardcore gamers alike were completely disgusted (as they should be) by PETA's move to "convert" gamers. Vegetarians were even repulsed by the image PETA was giving to the vegetarian/vegan community.

In short- PETA, get your act together, grow up. You're not making anyone feel great about being a vegetarian, and you're certainly not helping those who aren't become vegetarian.

And I'm done.

Links/Sources:

Our best friends at GoNintendo

EDGE ONLINE

Greenpeace

Destructoid

New Statesman