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PETA in America have come up with a new Flash game based around the popular DS title “Cooking Mama” (Is it just me or is that title just bizarre anyway!)
There are 4 levels to the game, each divided into 3 mini-games, allowing a total of around 12 games. For those of you who have played the original and enjoyed, if you can get past the propagandha here I think you’ll thoroughly enjoy it.
It seems to have gone everywhere too, with top sites like Joystiq calling it “the best flash game we’ve seen from the activist group yet”
Pro-PETA view:
This is a great game and PETA should be showing it to kids on their kids site, cause kids need to grow up knowing this stuff. It shows the horrors that happen during the holiday season to millions of turkeys worldwide – But you get to baste a tofu turkey at the end!
Anti-PETA view:
Propagandha, Propagandha, Propagandha, once again PETA use the strength of one product to hijack it for their own ends. They are clearly marketing it towards kids which is evil – leave the kids alone.
The Truth:
There’s no surprise that this comes just before the release of the new Cooking Mama due out on the Wii, a lot of effort has gone into making this a picture perfect parody of the game. PETA will use this to sidetrack you into signing their alert against Majesco – the Cooking Mama creators – but it’s not like their usual alert, this asks Majesco to make a vegetarian version available – something I can see Majesco doing in the future.
It’s clearly aimed at kids, which a lot of people see as wrong, though I’m sure it’s fine for aforementioned people to play Manhunt 2 or other blood filled games.
Overall it’s a bit of fun – play it, don’t let it absorb, it’s a computer game.
