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PETA tries to make a point with Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals photo

After titles such as Super Chick Sisters, PETA figured there was no reason to stop there: why not inject the universe with a further dose of their own brand of creativity? This time the result is Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals, a flash game that more or less follows Mama's dark path as I outlined way back when.

Play the game and you'll find yourself playing a demonized version of Majesco's lovable character, who prepares Thanksgiving dinner by plucking the feathers and innards out of a dead turkey. The game clearly intends to disgust the player by showing these things, which is hard to react to when it's done in a cartoon style.

At a quick glance, one might think that PETA is trying to imply that the Cooking Mama titles are heartless games that show Mama cheerfully preparing all kinds of dead animals for scrumptious meals (and they certainly are delicious -- the whole thing made me hungry for a holiday meal), but I think what they are actually going for is to find an effective way to speak to the gamer about not eating animals. Unfortunately, this isn't it.


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Vitamin Awesome's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 15:11
Vitamin Awesome
Obligatory reference to eating veal.

Now that that's out of the way, as long as there are people gullible enough to think peta does more help than harm, we're going to keep seeing these kind of shenanigans. I'm all for animal rights and whatnot, but peta as a group is a group of people that have it all wrong.
bogart27's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 15:19
bogart27
I refused to cook that damned tofu-turkey.
Timmeh's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 15:31
Timmeh
Juggernaut: It's been agreed by a lot of researchers that humans have always been omnivores and opportunistic in what they eat, be it fruit, vegetable or animal.

And the whole 'we don't have claws, big teeth etc' argument? That's BS. Modern man (well, last two or so million years) has always used tools, who needs limiting, inconvenient claws when there's a handy rock laying nearby?

Look, I don't have a problem with people wanting to be vegetarians - it's their choice. I just dislike greatly when they decide that their way is 'right' and set about trying to force their ideals on other people. And, unless I've been very much mistaken, PETA aren't exactly what one would call 'moderates' now are they?
deiga-the-semivaliant's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 15:33
deiga-the-semivaliant
DemonEyes23, apparently PETA doesn't understand the concept of eggs and insemination.
ZekeThePlumber's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 15:39
ZekeThePlumber
Does this game reveal colonel's secret recipe? Is it the brutality and inhumane treatment of animals that makes them so delicious? Man, now I'm hungry.
Jon2309's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 15:42
Jon2309
That game is quite fun. Bonus level sucks though.
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 15:49
MechaMonkey
PETA = Pretty 'Effin Terrible Assholes.
pd771's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 16:18
pd771
@ unstoppablejuggernaut

Our teeth aren't like carnivores or herbavores. They are exactly like omnivores, animals who eat plants and animals, like bears. Because we're omnivores. We're suppossed to eat both.
MisterMingo's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 16:21
MisterMingo
"Why is there blood and feathers in my eggs!? This is the LAST time I buy eggs from the gas station!"

This game is actually pretty fun. I got disappointed when I got "Too Nice", so I'd keep trying until I got "Meaner Than Mama". Gotta make them turkeys BLEEEED!! >:D

Also, I like that they try and say farm turkeys have personalities and taste in music. Farm turkeys are the stupidest animals ever.
Chicken008's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 16:33
Chicken008
This game is flawed, it said I was done plucking feathers even when there clearly were more on the turkey.
MisterMingo's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 16:41
MisterMingo
Also:

@unstoppablejuggernaut: 1) We have omnivore teeth like any other "ape". You are aware Chimpanzees have cannibalistic tendencies, right? They kill and eat rival chimps in territorial fights, and have similar teeth to humans. We're designed to eat meat, we can just opt not to since we can get protein from vegetable sources.

2) PETA is a hate mongering extremist terrorist cult. They support violence and offensive propaganda, so long as they get their point across. They worship animals and treat fellow humans like shit. I think "fuck PETA" is perfectly acceptable.

3) I was a strict vegan for over two years for health related reasons. So don't act like I don't know the benefits of not eaing meat. Your arguments are just incorrect and uneducated.
silentfox's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 16:48
silentfox
peta is evil and doesn't want you to have pets and kills more animals than they save. also they are not only crazy, but hypocrites too because there is at least one high up person who uses medicine based on animal research, but they bomb those places and want all that to stop. and she says it is ok for her to use something that came from that.

that game also made me hungry for turkey. i can't wait to go butcher a turkey and make some delicious giblet gravy too.
Liontamer's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 17:26
Liontamer
Damn, I wish we could have scored that game!

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Iroquois Pliskin's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 17:48
Iroquois Pliskin
queue lawsuit in 3...2...
GohanGVO's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 18:08
GohanGVO
OM NOM NOM
DamnYouKrycek's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 18:29
DamnYouKrycek
You know, I've really got nothing against vegans or vegetarians, I mean, my girlfriend, who I live with, is a vegetarian and when it's her night to cook, I eat a vegetarian meal. It's these militant vegan/vegetarian douche bags that I would have no problem with watching get wiped off the fucking planet.

I mean, if you want to try and save the animals, that's awesome. If you think the way to achieve this goal is to not eat them, whatever floats your boat. BUT IF YOU TRY TO COME BETWEEN ME AND A 6OZ SIRLOIN, I WILL FUCKING END YOU! Unless, you know, it's my girlfriends night to cook.
neveranything's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 18:30
neveranything
This just in: Extremist groups are still short sighted and run by ignorant brainless douchebags. More at 11.
GunSlap's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 18:38
GunSlap
Reminds me of my favorite Monty Python quote: "Of course I love animals, that's why I kill 'em!"
The Amazing Shenazin's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 18:46
The Amazing Shenazin
hey kids! let's force our vegetarianism on others because we feel morally superior!
Rosseh's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 19:55
Rosseh
I like the way the leader of PETA has an illness that relies on medication tested on animals to survive. If they hadn't tested it on animals she would be dead right now. Given the chance, I would wipe PETA from the planet in the same militant ways they employ.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 20:01
Necros
I must be doing something wrong, because that looks nothing like what I have at Thanksgiving. Thanks for making me feel like a bad cook, PETA. Now I'll be too self-conscious and have to hire someone else to cook by dead birds for me.

Also, fuck tofu. Seriously.
AClockWorkMelon's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 22:19
AClockWorkMelon
<embed src="http://www.petatv.com/swf/video.swf?v=t_giving_high" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="340" height="260" allowScriptAccess="always"><br /><a href="http://www.peta.org?c=pmkettv08">Visit PETATV.com for more videos.</a>.</embed>
AClockWorkMelon's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 22:20
AClockWorkMelon
^ An imbed video. ^_^ I got it as a prize for winning! Wee.
DemonEyes23's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2008 01:03
DemonEyes23
@ unstoppablejuggernaut
ever heard of canines? those are the pointy teeth that you might have noticed in your mouth...and guess what they aren't designed to eat plants get your research right. Not to mention many ape/monkeys are omnivores though the majority of their diet is probably plant based. Did you know that some apes are even know to be cannibalistic not that i believe THAT is ok but my point is they eats the meats because its delicious. oh and....FUCK PETA they really are screwed up little bastards that put the rights of animals above people (granted some deserve to be treated worse than animals but that's another story).
Drach's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2008 02:35
Drach
I lost a friend because she married someone who would "Vomit if he saw anyone around him eating meat". Now, please, people. This is utter stupidity to refuse to eat things that nourish you. I wonder how many PETA members actually adopt strays. I wonder how many of them actually strike out against REAL animal cruelty. Where was PETA when those Canadian boys Microwaved those peoples poor cat? Where was the COURAGEOUS members of PETA when those two black girls burned kittens to death in their carrier because they were "bored" and then laughed about it?
Loving animals is more than simply not eating meat. The same Vegetarians that won't adopt a cat or a dog because it eats "meat". Utter stupidity again. if you LOVE animals, you seek their companionship. You understand that there is a circle of life, and a food chain. Animals die each day, But not just because we're hungry. they die when they try to cross the street. They die of starvation under an abandoned house because someone forgot about them. They die of disease. There are billions of deaths on this planet each day, and if HALF the human race went Vegan, we would suffer a sever overpopulation of Deer, Bovine, Foxes, Coyotes, mountain lions, rabbits, squirrels, and so on. My point being is that Human beings are part of an ecosystem, part of that ecosystem is us thinning the animal population by EATING them, and not letting the death go to waste. We use almost all the parts of the animal when we kill them. (Leather, fur, bones, (even ears and hooves for our animal companions.)

damn I just ranted. lol sorry. I guess I have a different view on the article and PETA because I've been told by someone who is a vegetarian to "not eat meat" at MY dinner table because it'll make him puke! #@CK YOU, dude! Vegetarians are a childish breed. Anyone who "won't eat meat because it hurts animals" has a juvenile look at the world. They don't see that for some people killing animals is essential to SURVIVAL (see:Eskimos)

And the final note: Your body needs the protein in meat to be healthy. A Vegetarian diet doesn't contain the nutrients you need to have a healthy diet.
MatCD's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2008 14:03
MatCD
Tofu is soybean murder, eat more meat.
ZilorZilhaust's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2008 15:02
ZilorZilhaust
When I first saw it I thought to my self "Damn, that is one badass chef." and was saddened to see it was only a fake... That's my kinda cookin'.
gravitys plaything's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2008 01:12
gravitys plaything
WooHooo 185

had some trouble ripping out some of the organs... so much easier in real life...
gravitys plaything's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/19/2008 01:24
gravitys plaything
didn't know there were three parts.
Anyone beat 1170? (I stopped before the bonus level because it looked like it had less to do with dead turkeys and more to do with fail)
DJTruthsayer's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/20/2008 10:39
DJTruthsayer
@unstoppablejuggernaut - tard. i think that you have issues with how creatures on this planet eat there are 3 catergories - carnivore, herbivore and omnivore - now the prefix Carni would mean meat, the prefix Herbi would mean Plant and the prefix omni would mean everything.

Now i hate to break this to your malnourished mind (i assume your another idiot veggie) but Homo Sapien is an Omnivourous species - if you compare our teeth to carnivores/omnivores then you would notice that we have the front teeth of a carnivore (canine teeth anyone>) and the back teeth of a herbivore - the front teeth tear, the rear teeth chew. As for your comment that we arent designed inside to digest meat, do some high school biology, our physiology is absoloutly dependant on us eating meat (the only reason that vegfgies survive is vitamin supplements, whether they are in the food or tablets). In fact if you look at most herbivores (cows, sheep etc) they generally have multiple stomachs to allow them to digest stuff like grass - now unless i missed something i think i just proved you wrong. so shut up. ta! :->
zashu's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/20/2008 12:56
zashu
I loved it(until she sold out and started cooking that tofu junk), I think I’m getting good at it too. I’m gonna mail PeTA and ask if you can add online multilayer and a leaders board!! WHO’s WITH ME!?!?!?!
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