PETA: Mario is Pro Fur

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Woah, guys, hold your damn horses. You're missing the point here: PETA isn't seriously mad at Mario games for having a Tanooki suit, they're just using the Mario comparison as a platform to talk about fur use because Mario's popular. You're crazy if you think this is about "advocating censorship" or whatever.

Do they just want attention? Yes. Is it in bad taste? Somewhat. But is this an attack on videogames or Mario? No, not at all.

And for the record, I thought the game was pretty amusing, at least for a propaganda game. Also, I think PETA's right to an extent, we shouldn't buy fur products when there are equally viable alternatives out there.

*raises flame shield*

 

[Fasckira]

pass up the low hanging fruit

Get out of here with your buisiness model power phrases, you office drone.

TBH its been pretty much the case for a long time that PETA just pick on these popular things to boost their own campaigns. Will be interesting to see what Nintendo lawyers do when they see that Mario picture though, pretty sure theres a case out of taking a brand icon and warping it like that.

 

[DracoSuave]

If PETA is allowed the fiction that they don't kill animals, I'm allowed the fiction of Mario doing whatever it is he does.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

After years of consistent assclownery without ever accomplishing anything, it's obvious that their only goal is to receive the kind of coverage they're getting now, and... that's it. Why enable their histrionic tendencies?

 

[samsonguy920]

There are those who might worry that articles like these only draw attention to PETA all the more. This is true. What is also true is the message that people get from this is not the one PETA is trying to convey, but instead is the one they are actually broadcasting: 'We are batshit insane. Enjoy the skinny naked women we show who don't entirely embrace our ideals, and laugh at our feeble attempts to show compassion for animals as we slaughter them.'

I, erhm, wait, what is this... I don't even... There are no words...

Fail. Failure on so many levels. PETA please remove your head from your ass and go find an issue that actually matters to go protest.

They can go protest the overabundance of cars on the freeway by ranting on the road itself. I will be on the overpass with the popcorn enjoying the gorefest to ensue.

Clearly, PeTA needs to go out into the wild and hug some lions. You've been fighting on their side for decades; they'll let you pet them. Don't forget to pet the cubs in full view of the mother.

Trust me, they'll like it...

Makes me think of the ending to Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy(The book. Read it sometime, kids). Best result ever for a group like this. I would share it but I am not one for giving spoilers to stories I really enjoy.

Spoiler: The ending of Rainbow Six

Weren't you listening? No cookie for you!

 

[GeeksUtopia]

YAY dumb nuts went after a fantasy magical suit in another dimension with a cartoon style.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I thought it was magic, not that he went and skinned a tanuki...

I suppose next NASA will be accusing him of disrupting the gravitational balance of the galaxy by eating stars or that Gargomel sponsors him to make smurfs homeless with his vast mushroom consumption.

Talk about nit picking PETA, no wonder no one takes you seriously. *rolls eyes*

we shouldn't buy fur products when there are equally viable alternatives out there.

Dude I agree, but if anything I find this way of protesting offensive, because it seriously undermines any sort of effort to destroy the fur trade.

No one will take this seriously. The cause of animals rights deserves better than the ridiculousness of PETA. It just makes people reactionary against it...

 

[Samurai Silhouette]

So, skinning a mythological creature in a video game is a real world problem?

First world solutions for Disney world problems.
gtfo peta

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Er...shouldn't they have jumped on this a long time ago?

I see what you did there

Wow. Is it bad that I didn't notice it until you pointed it out?

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Is there anything you can say to this apart from /facepalm?

Nope, I don't believe there is. Then again, nothing is off-limits to PETA. I'm just surprised they didn't say the Raimi Spider-Man continuity promotes animal cruelty because the spider that bites Peter reacted out of fear and was being experimented on by SICK, DEPRAVED scientists who like to play GOD.

Or something of the sort. Then they'd release a Flash game where gigantic spiders graphically pull apart innocent human victims.

 

[Signa]

Makes me think of the ending to Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy(The book. Read it sometime, kids). Best result ever for a group like this. I would share it but I am not one for giving spoilers to stories I really enjoy.

Spoiler: The ending of Rainbow Six

Weren't you listening? No cookie for you!

That ending was unexpected, but very suiting for people like PETA.

Spoiler: *only* for those too lazy to read the book. READ IT DAMNIT!

Spoiler: no really, read the book!

hippies get left in the woods naked.

 

[Ammutseba]

Haha, that is awesome.

 

[aceman67]

And we're supposed to take an organization of people who the US Department of Homeland Security and FBI have listed has having ties to domestic terrorists seriously?

PETA has been in bed with the likes of the Earth Liberation Front, one of the largest domestic terrorist groups according to the FBI who are guilty of Assult, arson, firebombing, use/possession of explosives, and attempted murder. In 2002, PETA admitted to funding criminals associated with them.

Oh, and here's the icing on the cake: PETA enjoys an IRS Tax Exempt status as a ?501(c)(3)? charity.

[edit]

HAH! Found the info-graphic I was looking for:

http://www.infographicslibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/peta-kills-animals.gif

 

[Nikolaz72]

Funny thing PETA. All those animals we slaughter? If it wasnt for us there wouldnt be so many of them. All Cows/Chickens/Pigs wouldnt survive in the wilds. And I gotta say, between living on a farm for a ten years with food, sleep, grassfields and then being put down painlessly before getting turned into cooked meat and eaten by humans. And having to flee for your life fearing for your very existance for the last minutes of your life on the great plains and then get eaten by a lion while you are still lying down on the ground breathing as the darkness closes down around you. Which food for the predator has the best life? Eh? Eh?

Compared to the free out-in-the-wilds gazelle. Our cows and chickens have it great. Now I dont mean the stacked on top of eachother cows in America. But not everyone mistreat the animals they eat. There is more of the open-grassfield cowfarms than the closed crowded factories.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

If that's the case, then so is this adorable baby:

What? That lion suit probably isn't from a real lion and is therefore irrelevant to the fur fashion debate? DON'T ASK QUESTIONS. Just draw the baby with the bloody head of a lion and that automatically makes PETA right.

 

[ReinWeisserRitter]

That child has the obvious leer of a hardened killer and sadist. Your pro-baby nonsense can't evade the lance of truth here, sir.

More seriously, this has the reek of a group of people who act retarded when they're bored or looking for attention all over it. The odor is all the more unfortunate when it's a legitimate, recognized organization.

 

[Avalanche91]

It was just a matter of time, wasn't it PETA?
One of you just HAD to play Mario on a bored day and gasp in shock and terror as Mario suddenly wore a raccoon suit.

How bored do PETA employees have to be, and do they honestly, HONESTLY think this particular cause if worth fighting for?

 

[LilithSlave]

How completely ignorant about Japanese mythology. A simple Google search would show this as ignorant.

A suit that looks like an animal does not mean a skinned animal. It's practically just a furry fursuit with magical powers. If anything, it's empowering, and it's just another reference, again, to Japanese mythology/Shinto. Tanuki are shapeshifters, and mario essentially becomes like a shapeshifter when given magical suits, turning him into things like frogs and tanuki.

By this logic, Buffalo Bell and fursuits in general promote animal cruelty.

I don't understand why people hate furries so much. PETA are the real animal hating crazies. I'm a person who's pretty sympathetic to a lot of hardcore pro-animal and pro-environmental causes, and I think PETA are crazy nutjobs.

Do they just want attention? Yes. Is it in bad taste? Somewhat. But is this an attack on videogames or Mario? No, not at all.

And for the record, I thought the game was pretty amusing, at least for a propaganda game. Also, I think PETA's right to an extent, we shouldn't buy fur products when there are equally viable alternatives out there.

Oh, is that what's going on? Well, that's a bit better. You sure? I hope you're right.

 

[Plucky]

Wow, and they're trying to knock down the big dog?

Compared to Cooking Mama, they're just splitting hairs, atleast shes actually using meat (which indirectly means that an animal was killed by someone, but not her, not like she advocates no vegetables), but trying to demonise Mario simply because he looks like a Tanuki? (which is basically a Raccoon Dog) is practically trying to demonize him and could be seen as a backhanded slap to Japan's culture.


I think they're more conscious about the wildlife and the environment that surrounds them, a large number of people in Japan are either Buddhists or followers of Shinto, im pretty sure they acknowledge that an animal was killed to get to their plate and is thankful for their sustenance.



But yeah, Mario is essentially an extremely well known icon at the moment, i seriously doubt it would do things like brutally killing animals (obviously) an interesting point to make that there is next to no meat consumed by Mario in his series, it's usually weird powerups, mushrooms and (in some of the newer games) strange, biologically weird powerups that happens to grow on plants.

The closest things to meat might either be Wacka Bumps, or (in Bowser's Inside Story) Chicken Wings, though the latter is primarily consumable by Bowser only anyway.