Cooking Mama: PETA edition

[xannoside]

http://www.peta.org/cooking-mama/index.asp?c=pcmgb08

You know, I rag on PETA a lot in person, but I have to give them major props here for doing something creative and impressively viral.

Thatm and the game is fun. I particularly like how eggs bleed and have

Comments

[jethrien]

Problem is, I enjoyed the game and still don't actually have a problem pulling giblets out of turkeys.

[xannoside]

Yeah, I doubt they thought that part through.

[chuckro]

Play controls are problematic, not terribly responsive. Also, the dead turkey looks comical, while the tofu loaf looks even less appetizing than the bleeding gravy, which is probably counter to their intentions.

Also, I can almost hear Majesco's lawyers firing off C&D letters...

[xannoside]

Oh, lordy yes.

Then again, Majesco has almost no money, so they might give it a pass since it might just skate in as within Fair Use.

[edgehopper]

Majesco would lose, too, on either trademark or copyright theories. The only argument they have is a false endorsement claim, since the website isn't very clear that Majesco didn't endorse or support the game. PETA could take care of that easily with a disclaimer.

But the rest of it...yeah, even their atrociously drawn turkey looks tastier than the tofu loaf. But if it convinces kids to learn to cook delicious meats, it's a good thing :)

[chuckro]

Wait, wait, wait: They use the Cooking Mama logo and character, they use the same game style (especially in the last section, where Mama makes the tofu loaf and the wording matches the games perfectly). They've essentially remade the game to endorse their view. How is this not infringement? Is there an argument for it as parody, or is this another of those long, complicated legal explanations that costs $400/hour because it totally goes against common sense?

[moonlightalice]

I am so embarrassed by these people... I HATE PETA. Not because I don't totally agree with them, but because their ridiculous stunts totally undermine any actual animal rights progress.

[wellgull]

Yeah, this is the kind of ridiculous. And it's the sort of stupidly aggressive, overstated claims that aren't going to convince anyone who wasn't already drinking the kool-aid anyway.

Michael Pollan has done a lot more for their cause than they have...

[wellgull]

Oh and I loved the bleeding eggs. UNFERTILIZED CHICKEN OVA IZ MURDER!

[chuckro]

I thought unfertilized chicken ova was rape. Oh, I'm so confused!