Casualgaming.biz noticed that PETA have crafted a piece of Thanksgiving Agitprop. It’s based around the popular DS game Cooking Mama games, and is cunningly entitled Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals. You can play online, download it or go beneath the cut and find the embeddable version – alongside a gallery of our favourite flesh-rending moments and a few thoughts. And a Turkey fact PETA didn’t mention in their game. Man!
Okay, here it is…
Best bits?
Well, here we are rummaging around inside a turkey to try and pull out the organs. Tricky to work out which bit of gristly flesh and purple tubes is connected to those internals and which is just for local colour.
And here we are sawing the head of the Turkey. Later, we tri-sect the neck to make gravy. Which has made me more sure than ever I’m perfectly fine with Bisto, thanks.
Tied to the anti-Turkey-consumption is a little annoyance from PETA that Cooking Mama doesn’t have nearly enough vegetarian recipes, and that they probably should. Which seems fair enough for a thing to be annoyed about, but by having Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals as your opening salvo… well, it’s not exactly tactics designed to change Majestco’s mind. Its tactics designed to change the mind of Cooking Mama players about their eating habits. And, since as animal-rights activists that’s really what they’re trying to do, you have to admit it’s probably an effective route to reach Cooking Mama’s general audience. Is it ethical? You tell me.
Oh – Turkey fact. And I’m surprised it didn’t turn up, as it’s the one which I – as an adult – find more disturbing than just basic cruel slaughterhouse conditions.
Turkey can’t have sex. They’ve been bred to be so enormously fleshy that the old penis/vagina this is impractical, and they have to rely on artificial insemination. In the same way that when I look at a poodle or similar, and think that relatively few generations back it was basically a wolf and start to question humanity’s better nature, the idea that we’ve done that to Turkeys makes me wonder.
So I try not to eat Turkey. Because chicken is so much tastier. Like, obv.
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Sigh. Chicken and turkey can both get fucked. Everyone knows duck is the most delicious of fowl. Closely followed by goose.
This looked and played like something from Newgrounds. I couldn’t take it seriously.
@ Jochen, the thing about Tofu is that it’s essentially flavourless, it can be really good with the right flavouring in it. For instance, I had some pig’s blood tofu whilst on my travels and that was quite good, got to let it boil in the hot pot a bit first though otherwise it’s quite runny.
Bobsy is entirely correct. Break out the pancakes and the hoi sin sauce, and let’s crisp ourselves up some duck.
Oh man. I have never had such a craving for delicious gamefowl as I do now, Pags. Damn you! All that’s waiting for me for lunch today is sandwiches or supernoodles! God dammit!
I don’t think people would invent meat if it wasn’t in existence today. It *is* pretty disgusting conceptually.
That said, I think a mod that allows you to eat your fallen foes in FPSs to gain power-ups would be nice.
If it makes you feel any better Bobsy, I made myself pretty hungry too.
I wonder if Majestco will be pursuing copyright infringement for misuse of what is originally a kid friendly character/series?
I personally prefer turkey over chicken, it’s less fatty, and has a different kind of taste to it :) Aka, turkey doesn’t taste like chikin. Also, Peta is hilarious, in a wrong way, and that’s only why you can stomach them. :P It’s not what you eat for crying out loud ;D It’s what you think you’re eating, for crying out loud. I think it’s more unethical to make a mock-turkey out of some silly paste than actually eat one…
Whut?
yeah, i don’t know if “meat is icky” is a particularly convincing track when it comes in the form of a flash game.
also, peta forgets something – tofurkey is hell on earth. i like tofu. i use it all the time. i even like seitan on occassion. but tofurkey is the grossest flipping thing ever created.
meat replacements work best when they’re not trying to pretend to be meat.
This vegetarian LOLd. My guess is that this game is intended to appeal to kids — to associate Thanksgiving turkey with “Yuck” in their minds and get ‘em to go veggie early. Fine by me.
If I had a choice between sinking a barge full or Islamic terrorists and a barge full of Eco terrorists (such as PETA,) I’d probably crash and would have to be rebooted. Because it’s one tough choice.
Hey, get your biology right! Birds don’t have the complamacated set of sexual organs that humans have – both boy and girl birds make do with cloaca. One entrance/exit for all uses… Yep, all of them. So mating is a big of an acrobatic act. I guess domesticated turkeys are just not acrobatic enough, anymore.
That should read, “mating is a bit of an acrobatic act”. Edit button? Yes, please! That, or better proofreading skills..
We should totally start a anti-PETA group called
People
(for)
Eating
Tasty
Animals
Some do.
Wait, what about wild turkeys?
The irony out of all of this really is that PETA is encouraging you to not kill and clean the animal yourself by grossing you out with it. The solution? Animal farms!
/facepalm on this one.
@frymaster:
Actually, I decided to stop eating meat after spending a summer cleaning the meat department at a grocery store. Man. *SHUDDER*
They’ve succeeded, only honeyed ham for me this Thanksgiving. :P
@Gap Gen
Fallout 3 has a perk that allows you to eat the corpses of your enemies for health…though it does destroy your karma.
Must. Eat. Turkey.
Man, I want turkey so bad. It’s been a few years since I’ve had it (they should start selling it in Japan).
Also, tofu is quite delicious, and actually does have its own flavor, if you get the good stuff. Tofu with a bit of salt and ginger paste is awesome.
The only thing I’ve ever had a big problem eating was boiled duck embryo. Crack a hole, drink the juice, then eat the baby with a spoon. I made it halfway, then had to stop.
Majesco responds: http://kotaku.com/5093315/cooking-mama-responds-to-peta
I love meat! I’m almost 100% carnivore. ;)
hahaha, well thats nothing like perping a turkey. also the turkey fact is bs
The PETA would have a lot more effect on me if they werent a bunch of jibbering crazies.
For the record, I respect there views but I dont respect how they protray them, they have an unplesent taste for manipulative propaganda (just read the rubbish they’ve come up with on milk and drug testing).
Overall this is a neat idea but its a bit over the top, shocking people doesnt really work but reasoning with them might.
Who is this intended to brainwash? The only people I can think of who would be affected by this are teenage girls: Eeew meat is icky, I’ll eat coagulated soy milk basted in “sauce”.
It just made me think:
A) Mama is a crap turkey cook and makes a lot of mess.
B) Yeah, that’s why I pay a man with a machine to prepare my meat, it’s peasant work.
I’d be much more sold on information about why it’s better to buy from small farms over large factory farms. But either way I’m buying meat.
So because I did a bang up job in making the turkey she suddenly turns vegetarian?
Also, if your turkey ends up looking like an anomaly out of Stalker, you’ve probably done something wrong. Like step 4: grill it in chernobyl. That’s not a traditional step, I don’t think.
Damn, Angry Mama would be pretty hot in real life.
Those pics are scary.
Another nice read thanks lol Mark don’t spam like that bro its not like you just a random name will do.