Professional badger shagging group (and animal rights advocate) PETA has been showing Sega some love, praising the publisher after it pulled a commercial featuring a live chimpanzee. The ad was to promote Sega's recent Wii title, Samba de Amigo.
"PETA contacted SEGA once we discovered they were using a real chimpanzee in a commercial promoting the new Samba De Amigo game," PETA proudly tells Destructoid's tip line. "Once we informed SEGA of the horrible things chimpanzee 'actors' go through (such as being ripped from their mothers when just days old, being forced to perform demeaning tricks, shocked with electric collars, beaten, and deprived of food), they immediately made the kind decision to pull the video from their site and promised to keep all great apes out of future ads."
PETA has told us that it will be sending a gift to the publisher as a thank-you.
All well and good, but it's not a happy ending. Thanks to PETA, an able-bodied chimpanzee is now out of a job, and forced to join the ever lengthening unemployment lines. With layoffs coming from publishers all over the country, this poor ape is just another victim let go by the videogames industry and forced to face the American recession.
The animal rights group has also done nothing to help Sonic the Hedgehog, who is still suffering abuse at the hands of his captors.
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12:42 PM on 11.04.2008
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Vote Ron Paul to eliminate chimpanzee welfare.
NO YOU FUCKING DONT because he's not working anymore, even though he was a kangaroo, no friggen love. His kids got put up for adoption and Mrs, Polkaroo had to whore herself out to make ends meet....not a happy life.
actually, PETA is a pretty cool group and I support the whole animal rights movement and if I see someone beating an animal I just might end up in jail for putting them in a wheel chair :)
Proves again, that PETA are a bunch of stupid animal lovers.
I have only one thing to say to your comment ...
Polka dot, Polka dot, Polka dot shorts!
"A great big pair of polka dot shorts! How did they get there!?"
POKLAROO?
That aside, I loved Pokaroo as a kid.
That is all.
I acutally havn't read into PETA...lol
Yeah, I hate being "that guy" (well sort of, I hate getting in people's face about shit they don't believe seriously but I like making people think) but PETA is on a shortlist of things that instantly get my blood boiling. Honestly, with the amount of people in it that just want people to stop beating animals and not supporting the "lets go molotov a fashion show" crowd, you could probably cut out the extreme part of PETA and make it into a tolerable organisation.
and CHEESE BURGERS EVEN MOAR.
WUSSES!
Umm since its was only the best Dreamcast game of all time?
Oh and FUCK Joe the Plumber and FUCK PETA!
Seriously though, everytime PETA is trotted out, the vast amount of hate you guys have is astonishing. Do they directly affect your life in some negative way? Has someone ever spraypainted on your mother's fur coat?
Oh yeah, I forgot: John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory also applies to Destuctioid.
Shut up. Seriously.
There are dozens and dozens of sensible animal welfare organizations who are much more deserving of people's support. Being against PETA does not equal being for animal abuse. If you're actually suggesting that, you should really think twice about saying things that make you sound like a moron.
No sensible person could support PETA as a group. They are extremists. Grow up. Really.
Here's my greater Penny Arcade theory: "If in doubt, write a Warcraft comic!"
You know, for someone who is supposedly intelligent, he makes a lot of dick and fart jokes.
Also, Bear in the Big Blue House could kick Polkaroo's face in. Thanks for reminding me of that damn theme Jim. It will haunt me for days.