PETA Game: What to Play “When Plaid Goes Bad”
By way of ConnieTalk, GamePolitics has gotten wind of a new message game from animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Bloody Burberry employs game tech to bash the well-known British fashion house for what PETA claims is the continued use of animal fur in its designs:
Burberry may be best known for its distinctive plaid, but its use of real fur is making the design house synonymous with cruelty to animals. Burberry continues to use fur in its designs despite the fact that leading clothing retailers like Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, Ann Taylor, Polo Ralph Lauren, and others have pulled fur from their stores forever.
In the rudimentary game, players move a furry critter around a high-end shop, evading security guards and spray-painting a “no fur” message on some of Burberry’s expensive designs. The site also features links to PETA videos and a place where users can sign an online petition to Burberry.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Seems fun enough, hate the brand anyway, I wouldn’t be seen dead in one of their chavvy hats and supposedly “rich” clothing
March 28th, 2008 at 7:07 am
First off, as much as I like animals I can’t stand PETA. Secondly, what is an online petition going to do. Lastly, it sounds like a bad game.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:10 am
High end fashion is a waste of time and money anyway.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Hmmm I’m not a fan of PETA at all… but I suppose the game is fair enough albeit slightly contrary to their supposed “don’t really do anything illegal” position. (i.e. nothing illegal like running round a store vandalising stuff with spray paint.)
Two things though, is this aimed at children? PETA have a track record of, innapropriately IMHO, foisting their political views on kids. Second thing, if it is aimed at children are the videos linked the sort of things parents will be happy for their children to view?
Gift.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Anything to do with PETA equates to fail and stupidity.
IMHO
March 28th, 2008 at 7:21 am
The game was rather lackluster. I only played it on easy, but it was rather annoying to play.
But I agree, PETA is another one of those annoying groups that could be doing something more productive. I guess they like to hang out with Greenpeace.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Spray painting? If memory serves, graffiti tagging is what got that mark ekko game banned (or was it rated higher? I can’t remember) in Australia. If this is a real store that they’re targetting, could this be interpreted as an attempt to incite vandalism?
As long as you eat the animal you skin for fur or leather then I see no problem with it.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:36 am
PETA can go suck themselves off. Nothing more but extremists hypocrites. I despise PETA, they don’t know shit and they help no one. I forgot what they’re called, but there’s another animal groups, who, I think, are much better.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:40 am
How long before it gets called a ‘vandalism simulator’?
March 28th, 2008 at 7:49 am
PETA needs to burn in hell, or at very least freeze to death in the giant freezers they use to store all the animals they kill.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:52 am
P.E.T.A
People Eating Tasty Animals
March 28th, 2008 at 7:55 am
@bugger
I agree, if animals didn’t want to be eaten then they wouldn’t be made out of meat. Why can’t PETA understand that simple fact?
March 28th, 2008 at 7:55 am
@bugger
P.E.T.A
People Eating Tasty Animals
It’s a well known fact that the cutest animals are the tastiest!
March 28th, 2008 at 7:58 am
I’m going to use a novel, unheard of concept to these people. I won’t buy the product.
Wow, no need for a petition or anything, not even need for a cheap ass game.
March 28th, 2008 at 8:10 am
http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/superchicksisters/index.asp
If Gamepolitics is covering PETA games then how did it miss this wonder of copyright infringment and inaccurate protrayal of koopas as turtles?
March 28th, 2008 at 8:19 am
this is stupid while i do not like “high” fasion it is up to people who buy this stuff as to what they get not peta also it is natural for people to eat meat and vegies not just vegies
March 28th, 2008 at 8:48 am
PETA is stupid, and fashion is stupid. When stupids collide.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Yuck.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:03 am
I would never in my whole life support PETA - those people are insane.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:05 am
I can’t stand PETA, they demand too many things. You can’t have your spotted owl and eated too (For the record, delicious).
March 28th, 2008 at 9:05 am
PETA can suck a fart and die. Their vice president had a bovine graft when she was on dialysis.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Why do anti animal-skin campaigners never spray paint over, say, Hells Angels’ leather jackets?
March 28th, 2008 at 9:10 am
@GoodRobotUs
Simple - they’re roadkill if they ever do that.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:14 am
PETA is the yuppies of protests groups. They in all honesty do more harm than good. At times they come of eco-terrorists.
Koopas aren’t turtles?
March 28th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Penn and Teller did a good Bullshit episode on PETA. You can check it out on youtube before it finally gets pulled down. Apparently, they gave upwards of $75,000 to a Animal Liberation Front terrorist who had in the past firebombed multiple buildings.
Taxes: what dirty secrets CAN’T you find with them?
March 28th, 2008 at 9:22 am
@ myrpok
March 28th, 2008 at 9:22 am
All that cruelty makes the animals taste better.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:26 am
@E.Z.K.: There is a parody of the group, PETA. They call themselves People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:28 am
If you play this game, the eco-terrorists have won.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:28 am
@ myrpok
It’s still up, more than likely- or at least, cuts and edits. There are a bunch of vegans going around spreading lies and trying to make PETA look better by attempting to redirect attention.
I’ve seen PETA-based video games before- one of them was a blatant rip-off of Super Mario Bros., where the enemy is Colonel Sanders, and Princess Peach is replaced by Pamela Anderson.
…
I’m not lying. You just CAN’T make this crap up, you’d have to be crazy beforehand.
But in any case, I’ll listen when PETA realizes that meat is essential in the human diet, animals die when crops are sewn and harvested, animal-based medical research is responsible for the things keeping us alive, and that it’s hypocritical of them to protest shelters for killing off animals when they turn around and do the exact same thing when nobody’s looking.
I’m not holding my breath, of course.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Zach: no way, Greenpeace would be on board with wearing fur. It’s all-natural and biodegradable, unlike those synthetic fabrics which are produced by evil carbon-burning corporations. Fur industry = green industry!
At any rate, I’ll hop on the “PETA is deplorable” bandwagon (been that way ever since they compared a multiple homicide in Vancouver to chicken farming) but at least their petition is being run with an on-site widget instead of a link to PetitionOnline or something. Hopefully they’ve got someone checking the signatures (all twelve of them) to ensure authenticity. I’m all for PETA taking a big online stance if it means they’ll stop bugging the seal hunters.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I personally see nothing wrong with fur, as long as the animal wasn’t abused in life. Too often, “fur farms” keep the animals in small cages and poorly fed, and handlers sometimes mistreat them. But that’s not always the case. Content and healthy animals have more beautiful coats, so many of those farms give their stock a decent life before they’re harvested.
Besides, humans have been wearing fur (and eating meat) since… well, since we could be clasified as homo sapiens. And Fur looks good, feels great, and is quite warm in the winter. To hell with PETA and thier extremist views.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:19 am
This game “advocates vandalism,” but I bet you’re not going to get anyone trying to get it banned. Fucking double-standards…
PETA sucks anyway.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:26 am
You know, I’ve always found it ironic that they believe that by destroying personal property they can stop fur sales. I mean, if you ruin someone’s fur coat, don’t you think they’re going to buy another one, thus artificially creating demand which would not otherwise be there?
PETA is the single-most easily trollable group in the universe though. Zippo Cat should get ‘em every time.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Do you get to dump dead dogs in dumpsters too - like PETA volunteers?
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2005/06/animal_cruelty_arrests_associated_with_peta/
March 28th, 2008 at 10:36 am
@ Papa Midnight
Ha! I diddn’t think anyone else knew about the group that IMAO started.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Isn’t PETA the same organization that asked the city of Hamburg to change their name to Veggiesburg in exchange for $10,000 worth of tofu burger patties for the school system?
March 28th, 2008 at 11:07 am
On the one hand, their fanatical followers provide a useful service, SOMETIMES. Like exposing that cow-abuse story in the US that resulted in the meat recall.
BUT the rest of the time, they are lunatics. There’s a difference between exposing animal abuse, and being a vandal/terrorist.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:12 am
@Nekowolf
I forgot what they’re called, but there’s another animal groups, who, I think, are much better.
Are you thinking of the SPCA perhaps?
March 28th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Yeah! The SPCA, that’s it! Thanks
March 28th, 2008 at 11:23 am
@Gray17
The SPCA is a great organization, I don’t think anyone can complain about them. Everyone respects and listens to the SPCA because, unlike PETA, they make sense with their actions and requests. They aren’t demanding that everyone in the world switch to veganism or stop wearing fur, like humanity has been wearing for the last 10,000 years.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:35 am
While I’m not a fan of wearing fur, PETA and all their hypocrisy can go straight to hell.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:41 am
What do you expect from a group that believes milk is poisonous?
March 28th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
P.E.T.A.
People Eating Tasty Animals.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
@Bugger
Ah nuts, you beat me to it >
March 28th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
People
Enforcing
Tyrannical
Agendas
or we can start our own P.E.T.A.
People Enjoying the Torturing of Animals.
Our 1st assignments:
Get Micheal Vick off the hook and re-open the Roman Colisseum to gladiators fighting animals.
Hell it can’t possibly be harder then trying to convince everyone on the planet to not eat meat whilst coming off as nutjobs and extremists.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Oh and has anyone here ever debated someone from PETA? They fall for PETA’S BS hook line and sinker every time, they call meat eaters murderers and say “you can’t call yourself an animal lover and eat meat” (I try to point out you can’t call yourself an animal lover unless your into bestiality). And almost all of them have an air of ‘holier than though’ amongst them.
It’s funny because it does nothing but alienate themselves and hurt their cause.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
@myrpok
I love penn and teller BS.
Unfortunately I don’t get showtime so I have to rely on people posting the episodes on youtube.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
@ Father Time
Can anyone really be an animal “lover”?
I love animals because they are so tastey. You should send that their way one day.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
So yeah, a summary of all the above comments would be ‘PETA sucks balls’. I would be inclined to agree.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Fashion is stupid
PETA is stupid
Why is everything retarted nowadays?
March 28th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
@Father Time “Oh and has anyone here ever debated someone from PETA?”
Tried to quite frequently, particularly regarding medical research, but there’s only so much banging my head against a wall I could take. It’s my experience of groups like PETA which convinced me they aren’t so much about animal welfare as misanthropy. Humans are seemingly to blame for everything, unlike other animals have no right to eat a normal diet or form symbiotic relationships with other species. I think this is why farmers or scientists can be condemned for hurting animals but they just can’t bring themselves to condemn the terrorist activities of the ALF/ELF etc.
All of which would be bad enough, but they also lie and distort facts to achieve their ends. Whether it’s claiming humans can be simulated on computers, that basic research is “unnecessary cruelty” or that animals cannot be used to model humans, groups like PETA never disclose all pertinent information when presenting their case. (and that’s putting it politely.)
Gift.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
@Ace ofspade: Haha, you watched that South Park eposide I take it? Yeah, as for PETA, they can, well, don’t want to say here since this is a family friendly forum, but yeah, they’re hypotrictal as well since their founder uses medicine thats tested on animals and crap, and they support terroristish people.
Ugh, and I know its not as bad as the terroristish actions, but that stupid Super Chick Sisters video, no, just no.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I hope the petition isn’t also peppered with images of slaughtered animals.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
SPCA, it’s actually a police group.
Now remember everyone, there is always contridiction in these types of groups just like Pro-life issuing death threats and bombing clinics. Or peace activists attacking recruiters or bombing military related buildings.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
@Overcast
Wow, that just made PETA seem like the sickest shit-heads in the world.
While treating animals really cruely is wrong, all of gods creatures have a place in this world.
Right next to the potatoes and gravy.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
high end fashion won’t last hold up six months, and it will be out of fashion before then, so it’s not worth buying.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
While i think almost all would agree that torture and unnecessary cruelty to animals is wrong, PETA are just plain out fanatical nutcases. They don’t seem to realize that animals hunt and kill each other to eat all the time. If they can do it why can’t we.
As for furs, while i’d never wear one (unless i was living in the Canadian arctic during Winter), i don’t see a problem with them so long as they don’t use endangered species or put the animal through alot of pain while killing it. (Such as baby seal clubbing, that goes a bit to far IMHO)
March 28th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
@ BmK
But I LOOOVE baby seal clubbing! And OhMiGawd! You haven’t worn leather till you wear baby seal skin!
I’m for ethical treatment of animals, but I distance my self very far from the Preppy Terrorist wanna be groups, and the eco-terrorist groups. In all honest why? Give me a good reason why we do have the cosmetic tests on animals people do?
March 28th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
PETA - People of the Eating Of Tasty Animals are annoying…
Plants are also alive and have been scientifically proven to have feelings.
Why is PETA for the mass genocide of the plant kingdom and why does it support the murderous animals(every animal not including humans) that eat these innocent helpless gentle creatures that give us the very oxygen we all breath?!?!?!?!?!?!?
In comparison, (unless we eat them or use them for other things) the only things that animals do is murder plants on a daily basis and produce greenhouse gases… oh and some of them kill other animals including humans…
I don’t want animals treated badly either but lets face it, the kind of fanatical devotion to this cause that PETA exemplifies is a complete overreaction…
and us for the game, it is seems dull…
March 29th, 2008 at 4:51 am
This story lost me at “PETA”.
March 29th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
to PETA:
Animal cruelty may be wrong, but that doesn’t make being cruel to people ok.
March 29th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Petition to have PETA listed as a “Wanna Be Preppy Terrist Group” God I love saying “Terrist!
March 29th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Maybe PETA is right, maybe we shouldn’t eat animals, just members of PETA. Waiter, I’ll have a PETAburger followed by PETA stroganoff.
How about PETA standing for Preppy Egotistical Terrorist Arseholes?
March 29th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
I never quite understood why wearing animal flesh is considered morally worse than eating it.
March 30th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
It’s the people that hunt that are the real environmentalists.
If we were to let certain animal populations go out of control, well, we’d be fucked. I don’t think I need to tell any of you why.
March 30th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Amen. I wrote a thing about PETA on Facebook awhile back, listing a ton of reasons as to why they are such a sick group. For instance, in Colorado they preferred to let hundreds of cattle starve and freeze to death in snowbanks then to help return then to local farms. The National Guard had to come in to do the work instead!
Because, you know…it’s not like they have anything better to do then to herd cattle around… And I’d SO much rather suffer a long, painful death then a quick shot to the head. PETA is bullshit.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
One of friend’s stepsisters is a PETA supporter and has all these PETA pamphlets plastered onto her door with stuff like “Animals are not ours to eat” and crap like that. My friend works at a fast food shop and her stepsister keeps on putting the “KFC Tortures Chickens” pamphlets on her door. I find that absolutely disgusting as I don’t like people trying force their views onto other people.
I’m all against animal cruelty, but PETA is going about it all the wrong ways.
March 31st, 2008 at 12:46 am
If someone was to cut or trim animal hair of them for a long time, couldn’t they make a fur coat that didn’t involve the mistreatment or killing of animals?
March 31st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Boy… I have always hated PETA. Its filled with mean vegiheads who are basicly against anyone eating meat, wearing fur or going against animal testing. Though I do not agree with the fur trade, as alot of it is inhumaine, Peta goes to far with everything. Obveously they can not comprehend the circle of life either. Even animals eat meat. Thats how its been for a VERY LONG TIME. If they love animals so much couldent they understand this? Also We are the superior beings… we top the food chain. So obveously it would make sense for us to eat what is below it. Im all for animal rights, but when it comes to wanting animal liberation… that is messed up. Many people are uninformed on what peta really is. Even most of its members. Peta does not want you to have pets.. Peta wants your pets to run free… and be free.. no zoos or animal sancuarys either basicly… Which in the long run would be WORSE for the animals… Also Peta suposivly saves animals… DO you know that they KILL more animals than they save? Thats true. They claim that sometimes its best for an animal to go to sleep forever then for it to live on…
Im against Peta.. Sorry but I wont be playing this game.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:30 pm
PETA and Greenpeace both have the same problem: The journey has become their only purpose. They don’t really want what they ask for, if they get it they’ll just up the ante.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
@stealthknight: It’s really hard to put the hair back on a fur. Most furs still have the skin (as leather) attached.
Animals tend not to survive the process of having their skin removed.
I don’t think PETA has ever been against clothes made from trimmed hair, such as wool. They do get concerned if you mistreat the animal (like in a famous Australian wool boycott over “mulesing” the animals).
April 1st, 2008 at 11:15 am
Kheldar said: “I find that absolutely disgusting as I don’t like people trying force their views onto other people.”
The obvious response to that would be “stop forcing your views on the animals.”