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PETA releases statement opposing Pokemon
This Forbes article details PETA's statements, with a fair bit of (well-deserved imo) criticism.
Apparently PETA believes that Pokemon encourages animal abuse and glorifies cruel treatment of animals. Here's a quote from the article.
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The way that Pokémon are stuffed into pokéballs is similar to how circuses chain elephants inside railroad cars and let them out only to perform confusing and often painful tricks that were taught using sharp steel-tipped bullhooks and electric shock prods
I have to say that I personally find this hilarious because of how misinformed it is. PETA obviously didn't bother to actually do any research on Pokemon Black and White, considering they specifically deal with the relationship between humans and Pokemon.
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Oh silly, silly PETA...what are we going to do with you? *shakes head sadly*
I still remember when Wrath of the Lich King came out and they took over Howling Fjord to protest against a quest that involved killing walruses.
I don't think an area has ever been grinded as hard as that zone was that day.
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Considering that Pokemon learn moves completely on their own, I don't see how they could possibly be "confusing"...
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PETA have their heads up their keisters. News at eleven. :smalltongue:
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PETA saying something ridiculous in order to grab attention for their outdated, dying, and destructive "organization"? Well color me shocked, that never happens!
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The Succubus
Oh silly, silly PETA...what are we going to do with you? *shakes head sadly*
I still remember when Wrath of the Lich King came out and they took over Howling Fjord to protest against a quest that involved killing walruses.
I don't think an area has ever been grinded as hard as that zone was that day.
Has there been a reaction to the Cow Level? :smallbiggrin:
The sad thing is that those idiots at PETA bring disrepute and ridicule upon a legitimate task. Long as you don't go well beyond the point as reason and sanity with it.
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Kindablue
Their PETA game has Ash talking about putting Pikachu inside a Pokeball and never caring about Pika's feelings. The whole reason Pikachu sits on Ash's shoulder all the time is that Pikachu DOESN'T get put inside a pokeball due to... reason. :smallsigh::smalltongue:
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The Succubus
Oh silly, silly PETA...what are we going to do with you? *shakes head sadly*
Ignore them like we always do?
Seriously, does anyone care what that bunch has to say? All I've ever seen out of them is over-the-top publicity stunts that everyone mocks for a day or two and then forgets about.
Zevox
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Anybody ever see the episode of Penn & Teller's BS where they harpoon lampoon mercilessly mock these morons with truth?
I was already ignoring them, but wrote them off completely as hypocritical wing-nuts after seeing that.
Edited for freudian slip. :belkar:
Edit 2: that wasn't the right word either.
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Has no one here linked to the actual game? It's hilarious.
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And remarkably cathartic to be able to repeatedly electrocute the Professor-expy when none of their moves can do damage to you.
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The most hilarious thing here is that Team Plasma (read: the antagonists) in Black and White has goals eerily similar to PETA, and just as misinformed. And yet they didn't seem to notice.
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That game, man. That game!
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The game is actually pretty fun!
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Sadly, yes. The Pokemon were hilarious. And Mudkipz was a surprise, if strange.
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I like to think of PETA, if an organization can be defined as a single person, as functionally insane with slight psychopathic tendencies. It can live in society as an eccentric, doing good and/or bad like everyone else, but there's always that little voice in the back of the head...
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tensai_oni
The most hilarious thing here is that Team Plasma (read: the antagonists) in Black and White has goals eerily similar to PETA, and just as misinformed. And yet they didn't seem to notice.
Actually, I think they did notice: otherwise, they would have attacked the franchise much earlier.:smallsigh:
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The Glyphstone
And remarkably cathartic to be able to repeatedly electrocute the Professor-expy when none of their moves can do damage to you.
Which just makes their message even more amusing. Hurting humans? A-OK. Hurting animals? HOW DARE YOU :smallfurious:
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Poor Professor Juniper. She makes a perfectly logical and reasonable argument about how humans and pokemon should be partners and vice-versa, and she gets burned/electrocuted/blasted/etc. Seems legit.
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Some part of me wonders if they realize how ridiculous they appear to the rest of society.
Then I return to teaching my Labrador how to play Silver Version on my old SP.
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Mauve Shirt
Has no one here linked to the
actual game? It's hilarious.
Wow, it's amazing.
I'm not a Pokemon fan, but that parody is great. After all, Pokemon exist for their own reasons :smalltongue:
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snoopy13a
Wow, it's amazing.
I'm not a Pokemon fan, but that parody is great. After all, Pokemon exist for their own reasons :smalltongue:
That's some Death is not Zombies dialogue right there.
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Mauve Shirt
Has no one here linked to the
actual game? It's hilarious.
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tensai_oni
The most hilarious thing here is that Team Plasma (read: the antagonists) in Black and White has goals eerily similar to PETA, and just as misinformed. And yet they didn't seem to notice.
Okay, I give them more credit for doing research than I thought, since the game included them talking about the Team Plasma bait and switch. I kept waiting for a Stockholm Syndrome joke to come up, but they disappointed me there.
The big irony there is that playing that game involves controlling pokemon, and since I decided to mess around trying out moves, I also caused 2/4 pokemon to die faint. So, violent resistance at its finest really.
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This might seem off-topic, but am I the only one that thinks the parody pokemon logo is totally badass? :smalltongue:
I wonder when PETA (People for the Eating of Tasty Animals) is gonna release a statement about Pokemon.
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They also let you name the pokemon you acquire. Which is pretty fail given the context and message.
Now if they'd had it be a bait and switch... It actually would've been almost appropriate for their method of preachiness... Oh, wait, I think I just figured out why they didn't do it.
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The creepiest part is that I could very easily see a psycho like Ghetsis wearing a cloak made out of Pokemon skins. I mean, the guy's arguably the most monstrous villain Nintendo has ever crafted - While Ridley, Ganon, Ghirahim, Smithy and many of the abominations Kirby fights are truly, unrepentantly evil, none of them were abusive, manipulative parents as far as we know.
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Mutant Sheep
Their PETA game has Ash talking about putting Pikachu inside a Pokeball and never caring about Pika's feelings. The whole reason Pikachu sits on Ash's shoulder all the time is that Pikachu DOESN'T get put inside a pokeball due to... reason. :smallsigh::smalltongue:
Pikachu hates being in his pokeball and refuses to go into it. Apparently thats a thing with some pokemon, they just hate the pokeballs. Though thats the only time I recall it coming up in the entire series and all its spinoffs. Even while being attacked by an entire flock of bloodthirsty birds. Ash is trying to protect him and sacrifice himself to keep pikachu safe, so pikachu saves the day and they are best friends. Truly, ash is a monster.
Honestly, they did a decent job, ham handed conversations aside, up until they brought ash into it. Thats the guy that in the series tends to go out of his way to save, protect, and aid any random pokemon he meets. Most of his pokemon tend to be like rescue dogs from a shelter, they were mistreated in some way and he helps them out so they willingly join him. *cough* charmander *cough* How many times has he taken a direct hit in order to protect his pokemon from harm? I know that I have lost track.
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I think PETA's just trying to lose all dignity it once had these days. Like remember that issue they had with Mario and the raccoon suit? And now this? They do realize there are actual animal cruelties in this world and not those in (children's) entertainment?
What's next? We gonna hear about how Finn from Adventure Time is inhuman for how he treats Jake? Or that Mordecai and Rigby are forced to do backbreaking labor for the park? Either wouldn't surprise me.
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Batman. Clearly, Batman is next.
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Dr.Epic
I think PETA's just trying to lose all dignity it once had these days. Like remember that issue they had with Mario and the raccoon suit? And now this? They do realize there are actual animal cruelties in this world and not those in (children's) entertainment?
What's next? We gonna hear about how Finn from Adventure Time is inhuman for how he treats Jake? Or that Mordecai and Rigby are forced to do backbreaking labor for the park? Either wouldn't surprise me.
I think the problem there is they are running out of new animal cruelty irl stock videos they can spam all over the place, so now they are attacking "the culture that glorifies animal cruelty" or some such thing. Figuring that by showing us how everything from the music we listen to, the games we play, and the movies we watch condition us to accept that animal cruelty is ok, they can somehow make us more willing to stop cruelty in all its forms.
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Dr.Epic
I think PETA's just trying to lose all dignity it once had these days. Like remember that issue they had with Mario and the raccoon suit? And now this? They do realize there are actual animal cruelties in this world and not those in (children's) entertainment?
What's next? We gonna hear about how Finn from Adventure Time is inhuman for how he treats Jake? Or that Mordecai and Rigby are forced to do backbreaking labor for the park? Either wouldn't surprise me.
Three...Two...One.
Now PETA, if you'll excuse me, I've got a Snivy to train by having him beat up Audinos.
Did I mention Jade never goes hungry?
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Oh PETA, you can do so much good, yet you use your powers for evil.
1.) Most Pokemon ENJOY the pokeballs. It has been theorized that their is a Pokemon home in there.
2.) Most Pokmon dont fight. They are pets, roommates, coworkers, and in some cases, religious leaders.
3.) Many trainers will give them selves up to save their Pokemon
4.) Pokemon rangers. That is all.
Please PETA, Play nice and we will stop saying you stand for People Eating Tasty Animals.
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Nick274
Please PETA, Play nice and we will stop saying you stand for People Eating Tasty Animals.
I dunno, bacon isn't going to stop being a thing.
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Would now be a bad time to mention PETA's insanely high euthanasia rate with stray animals?
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Emperor Ing
Would now be a bad time to mention PETA's insanely high euthanasia rate with stray animals?
It's never a bad time to call them out on that.
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Dr.Epic
I think PETA's just trying to lose all dignity it once had these days.
They had dignity? :smalltongue:
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Renegade Paladin
They had dignity? :smalltongue:
Not precisely, but at least you could respect them for their batspit crazy obsessions with animal care, right up until all the different stories broke about things like them slaughtering more shelter animals than anyone else in the country, or one of their big wigs using medicine that was animal tested, despite the near hysterical levels of insistence that noone should ever use anything that had to do with animal exploitation in any way. Basically, until the hypocrisy started sprouting, you could at least sort of respect their goals and those working on them. Now they are just crazy double standards having oddballs that keep working hard to top their latest level of crazy.
Im still waiting on my full scale softcore to hardcore porn anti fur posters. We already had near playboy level film shoots of various top ten bodies, lets take the next step peta, you know, for the sake of the animals. Oh dear god, I just came up with two disturbing slogans based on pornographic comments that actually would fit right in with peta styles. Naturally, I wont share them with you, as I have no wish of being banned, but dear lord I almost collapsed a lung laughing.
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... Someone should remind the people at PETA that humans are animals too. I mean, come on. It's, like, a 3rd grade thing.
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Some of their other photo shoots hit rather niche demographics... Such as "All animals have the same parts."
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Thajocoth
Some of their other photo shoots hit rather niche demographics... Such as "All animals have the same parts."
Wait... Did they actually say that? That's just not true. Not unless arthropods and fish don't count.
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Wait... Did they actually say that? That's just not true. Not unless arthropods and fish don't count.
Yeah, they should've said "mammals", given what they were protesting. It's pics of women with dotted lines on their bodies where you'd cut a cow or pig to butcher it, usually with words on them labeling the various cuts.
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Kelb_Panthera
Wait... Did they actually say that? That's just not true. Not unless arthropods and fish don't count.
Don't call them fish. They're Sea Kittens.
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Tebryn
Don't call them fish. They're Sea Kittens.
Bah, I just call them sashimi.
Is peta a militant vegan group now? When the blazes did that happen? :smallconfused:
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Kelb_Panthera
Is peta a militant vegan group now? When the blazes did that happen? :smallconfused:
Well to the best of my knowledge they aren't militant. They do, however, whine and moan whenever anyone other than themselves violates the standards that no society could ever live up to if it is to be survivable, let alone have some semblance of freedom. Which is pretty much why they don't live up to their own standards.
I doubt i'm alone in thinking they're worse than Team Plasma.
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Given the number of references packed into that five minute game, and the absolute absurdity to which Ash is taken, I personally think they knew exactly what they were doing, and that this was a labor of love more than anything.
That or someone at PETA hired a few game designers to make pokemon look bad, and the game designers being fans of the franchise turned it back around in a quite amusing way.
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Well thats because their organization hides a dark secret.
Their not really for pets at all. They find tamed animals an abomination.
Thus their actual longterm plans are to return the animals into the wild. Thats why they care so little for the animals under their care. They find them monsters anyway.
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Just played the game. Woke up my toddler because I laughed too hard.
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I played through LostSilver and Amnesia The Dark Descent, and I am too terrified to play that game. :smalltongue:
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To be fair to PETA by all accounts there high rates of animal euthinasia is because they are willing to take in animals that other shelters won't and have a habit of euthanising animals for other shelters and vets they think use the "wrong" method.
On the other hand, they would get much futher if they would just focus a little. Swinging wildly from "have a rescue dog not from a breeder!" to "keeping pets is evil" just puts people right off them. If they would stick to the kind of stuff the RSPCA do (Animal shelters, re-homeing, rescue, lobbying for basic animal welfare) and keeped away from the militant vegan "meat is murder" they would get allot more done.
Also, stunts like this make them look just stupid. Ash is a prime example of a good pet owner. How many times dose he get hurt buy his pokimon (Pika shocking him for example) and never once dose he do more than look exasperated? Aslo, I can't belive they focus on the pokiballs when they could have complained about it encoraging dog fighting.
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Scowling Dragon
Well thats because their organization hides a dark secret.
Their not really for pets at all. They find tamed animals an abomination.
Thus their actual longterm plans are to return the animals into the wild. Thats why they care so little for the animals under their care. They find them monsters anyway.
The bolded part is, indeed correct. The conclusion, however isn't. They don't want to return tamed animals to the wild. From what I read of that, the find that abominable too. They want to kill them, instead, so that the wild won't be spoiled by them. Or something.
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Seeing as portrayed as one of the bad guys just completely destroyed their message even more. He's the character that probably treats pokemon the most as equals in the entire show!
Oh, aside from all that don't forget how horrible a lot of their campaigns are with regards to women. (And it isn't limited to women.) Hint: You don't help by transferring exploitation to another group. :/
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bluewind95
... Someone should remind the people at PETA that humans are animals too. I mean, come on. It's, like, a 3rd grade thing.
The only problem with that is the acronym "People Eating Tasty Animals" doesn't really apply anymore. Unless you're Hannibal Lecter.
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PETA isn't entirely that off-base with this complaint; it's just mostly off-base. The Pokemon games are essentially a Michael Vick simulator, save for drowning Pokemon that end up losing your bet. Please note the tongue in the cheek.
But everyone is right here. This is just silly on their part. However, this silliness will not top their Mario 3 tanooki suit fiasco.
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I saw PETA in the thread title and I clicked on it. Like a fatal car crash, I feel bad for looking but it's almost impossible to avert my eyes.*
Also: Really PETA? Pokemon? :confused: I'm pretty sure what you're smoking ain't legal in any country.
Also: if we didn't keep domesticated cows, wouldn't they all become extinct? I'd really like to know, because as far as I'm aware, in the US at least there simply aren't any wild cows (buffalo and bison don't count). Please won't someone think of the cows! :smallbiggrin:
*I actually did see a car crash into the leading edge of a median at an intersection and then flip up into the air and onto its roof. A thing of terrible beauty.
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Mario, you monster! :smallfurious:
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Nick274
Oh PETA, you can do so much good, yet you use your powers for evil.
I'm not sure if PETA ever did much good for animals - it was the work of others, less insane animal welfare groups. All PETA does for them is hurt their reputation by making people think all animal welfare groups are similar.
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Also: if we didn't keep domesticated cows, wouldn't they all become extinct? I'd really like to know, because as far as I'm aware, in the US at least there simply aren't any wild cows (buffalo and bison don't count). Please won't someone think of the cows! :smallbiggrin:
Well... Their direct ancestors, the Aurochs was extinct by the 1600s. Centuries before that in most countries.
And the European Forest Horse (Tarpan) was extinct by the early part of the 1900s, probably before that, and the other variety of wild horse which I can't spell was briefly extinct in the wild. The direct ancestor of domesticated dogs, wolves, have been driven from most of the world. Most varieties of wild donkeys have been driven extinct or are critically endangered...
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Batman. Clearly, Batman is next.
He doesn't hand forge those batarangs. They are just metal covered bats. This is why they fly so well. He also kills a thousand bats every time his cape gets ripped so he can replace it. And he's forced all the bats out of thier natural cave-home so he can have a secret lab. For testing his knockout gas on the captured bats. And Alfred butchers the animals for Bruce's meals with a rusty cleaver.
The Joker is really just a reasonable animal care director.