PETA versus Tanooki wearing Mario

[treismac]

http://features.peta.org/mario-kills...m_medium=Media

I snagged this off of Kotaku, by the way. The game itself is an interesting little take on my favorite Mario power-up seeking revenge.

I say Nintendo makes a game where you are a Tanooki that saves other animals to judo flip this situation in Nintendo's favor. They could donate part of the proceeds to both PETA and ending the Tanooki fur trade in Japan. Everyone would win: Taookis and gamers!

The PETA assertion that Nintendo encourages or condones fur use by Mario wearing a Tanooki suit is ridiculous, however. If I was part of their PR or advertising, I would have advised/written something much more savvy that sort of threw a challenge Nintendo's way to help rather than to insult them. Anyway...

[Collector_Gaming]

*smacks forehead*
i got nothing. seriously i got nothing.

hey peta

[BlastProcessing402]

*smacks forehead*
i got nothing. seriously i got nothing.

hey peta

That emoticon encourages abuse of our animal equals.

[Amon_Re]

Maybe someone should remind PETA of the survival chances of animals in their own shelters.....

In the meanwhile, I'll go eat some bacon.

[Berserker]

Is it wrong to want a full game done in this bloodied apocalyptic mushroom kingdom style? Edmund McMillen needs to get on this ASAP.

And what I learned from this game is that it's wrong to take skin from Tanookis. It is, however, apparently OK to smash them in the face with blocks and pipes and throw them down bottomless pits.

[Aswald]

Maybe someone should remind PETA of the survival chances of animals in their own shelters.....

In the meanwhile, I'll go eat some bacon.

Guess this has to be posted here...

http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?tit...lients_exposed


Fact is, PETA has strongly opposed the corporations. Since the corporations run the media, it is no surprise that any rumor started about them will be scooped up by the media.

It is along the same lines as the media hostility towards the "Occupy Wall Street" movement.

[Collector_Gaming]

That emoticon encourages abuse of our animal equals.

actually i love animals. I use to have horses when i was younger.
I've always had a dog. about 5 cats in my life time. 2 Sheep. 2 Chickens. 3 Rabbits. 1 cow. 7 birds i believe. and god knows how many gold fish +1 beta fish.

Its just i hate peta because they take this whole thing to way beyond where it needs to be. Their basic input on what needs to be done is humans should be wiped from existance so the animals can run free and do what they want.

Imagine if carnivore animals outside of us... had their own peta organizations.....

[Aussie2B]

Just another day in PETA stupidity. They give real activists of animal-related causes a bad name.

From what I personally know about the tanuki fur industry, I don't think it's a particularly popular fur or THAT widely used. In fact, there's a problem with "faux fur" being sold in America that is actually genuine tanuki fur. I don't know what the hell is up with that.

I am against killing animals for fashion. I think that's majorly messed up. I'm also against killing animals purely for sport, or killing animals in a way that's less humane than other reasonable options. But if you're going to eat it or if you're from a culture that needs the fur/hide, that's a different matter. PETA is just all kinds of stupid.

[Gameguy]

Please let Nintendo be able to sue PETA for defamation. It's not like they actually harm any animals, it's a video game.

[treismac]

PETA... eh. I love animals, but, like the rest of you, I don't think humans should be second class citizens behind animals. They are so fanatical that they are clueless to how wacked out of their minds their propaganda sounds to others. Yeah, "radical" gets everyone's attention, but so does clever or thoughtful or, hell, cute, and those don't turn people off like radical does. PETA should definitely use the innate cuteness of animals more to pull at heartstrings rather than their normal piss people off routine.

As a sorta relevant side note:
I just feed a cousin of the tanooki, a raccoon, who visits my house from time to time. They are such smart and interesting creatures. I think I'd have a better shot at domesticating him than my cat's feral girlfriend.

[Guru of Time and Space]

Their basic input on what needs to be done is humans should be wiped from existance so the animals can run free and do what they want.

This sounds like a good idea after reading this:

The other game on there is to stop cruelty to chickens. Chickens...Are you kidding me? What is next fish? Clams? Mosquitos? If ever there was an animal whose sole purpose in life was to feed humans the chicken was it. If you take away chicken as a food source what value does it have to anyone?

Look if you want to hurt the fur trade go ahead I don't care as I'm generally warm anyway but don't go after the food that goes into my belly.

Despicable.

-GoTaS

[Guru of Time and Space]

Oh, another thing. World hunger can be tackled more efficiently when everyone realizes the exorbitant amount of space and energy factory farming uses up. For every sixteen pounds of grain and soy fed to beef cattle in the United States, we only get one pound back in meat on our plates. And fuck man, we could use all this land used to grow all this grain to grow edible grains for humans to help combat world hunger several times over.

-GoTaS

[G-Boobie]

My favorite PETA moment was the lunatics demanding that Ben and Jerry make ice cream using human breast milk. Remember that?

I love PETA. They never cease to amuse me.

[buzz_n64]