March 28, 2008 -
By way of ConnieTalk, GamePolitics has gotten wind of a new message game from animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).Bloody Burberry employs game tech to bash the well-known British fashion house for what PETA claims is the continued use of animal fur in its designs:
Burberry may be best known for its distinctive plaid, but its use of real fur is making the design house synonymous with cruelty to animals. Burberry continues to use fur in its designs despite the fact that leading clothing retailers like Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, Ann Taylor, Polo Ralph Lauren, and others have pulled fur from their stores forever.
In the rudimentary game, players move a furry critter around a high-end shop, evading security guards and spray-painting a "no fur" message on some of Burberry's expensive designs. The site also features links to PETA videos and a place where users can sign an online petition to Burberry.
Comments
I love penn and teller BS.
Unfortunately I don't get showtime so I have to rely on people posting the episodes on youtube.
Can anyone really be an animal "lover"?
I love animals because they are so tastey. You should send that their way one day.
PETA is stupid
Why is everything retarted nowadays?
Tried to quite frequently, particularly regarding medical research, but there's only so much banging my head against a wall I could take. It's my experience of groups like PETA which convinced me they aren't so much about animal welfare as misanthropy. Humans are seemingly to blame for everything, unlike other animals have no right to eat a normal diet or form symbiotic relationships with other species. I think this is why farmers or scientists can be condemned for hurting animals but they just can't bring themselves to condemn the terrorist activities of the ALF/ELF etc.
All of which would be bad enough, but they also lie and distort facts to achieve their ends. Whether it's claiming humans can be simulated on computers, that basic research is "unnecessary cruelty" or that animals cannot be used to model humans, groups like PETA never disclose all pertinent information when presenting their case. (and that's putting it politely.)
Gift.
Ugh, and I know its not as bad as the terroristish actions, but that stupid Super Chick Sisters video, no, just no.
Now remember everyone, there is always contridiction in these types of groups just like Pro-life issuing death threats and bombing clinics. Or peace activists attacking recruiters or bombing military related buildings.
Wow, that just made PETA seem like the sickest shit-heads in the world.
While treating animals really cruely is wrong, all of gods creatures have a place in this world.
Right next to the potatoes and gravy.
As for furs, while i'd never wear one (unless i was living in the Canadian arctic during Winter), i don't see a problem with them so long as they don't use endangered species or put the animal through alot of pain while killing it. (Such as baby seal clubbing, that goes a bit to far IMHO)
But I LOOOVE baby seal clubbing! And OhMiGawd! You haven't worn leather till you wear baby seal skin!
I'm for ethical treatment of animals, but I distance my self very far from the Preppy Terrorist wanna be groups, and the eco-terrorist groups. In all honest why? Give me a good reason why we do have the cosmetic tests on animals people do?
Plants are also alive and have been scientifically proven to have feelings.
Why is PETA for the mass genocide of the plant kingdom and why does it support the murderous animals(every animal not including humans) that eat these innocent helpless gentle creatures that give us the very oxygen we all breath?!?!?!?!?!?!?
In comparison, (unless we eat them or use them for other things) the only things that animals do is murder plants on a daily basis and produce greenhouse gases... oh and some of them kill other animals including humans...
I don't want animals treated badly either but lets face it, the kind of fanatical devotion to this cause that PETA exemplifies is a complete overreaction...
and us for the game, it is seems dull...
Animal cruelty may be wrong, but that doesn't make being cruel to people ok.
How about PETA standing for Preppy Egotistical Terrorist Arseholes?
If we were to let certain animal populations go out of control, well, we'd be fucked. I don't think I need to tell any of you why.
Because, you know...it's not like they have anything better to do then to herd cattle around... And I'd SO much rather suffer a long, painful death then a quick shot to the head. PETA is bullshit.
I'm all against animal cruelty, but PETA is going about it all the wrong ways.
Im against Peta.. Sorry but I wont be playing this game.
Animals tend not to survive the process of having their skin removed.
I don't think PETA has ever been against clothes made from trimmed hair, such as wool. They do get concerned if you mistreat the animal (like in a famous Australian wool boycott over "mulesing" the animals).
The obvious response to that would be "stop forcing your views on the animals."
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The obvious response to that would be that it's a fallcay to assign the human affectation of 'views' to animals.
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