PETA Game: McDonald’s is for the Birds
PETA Game: McDonald’s is for the Birds
November 12, 2009
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has launched a browser-based Flash game to call attention to what the group calls “outdated killing methods” utilized by the McDonald’s fast-food chain.
Super Chick Sisters is a Super Mario-like five level game that has players attempting to rescue Princess Pam (Pamela Anderson) who has been kidnapped by the Evil Ronald McDonald. Information from PETA’s campaign against McDonald’s is sprinkled throughout, for example a chick tells your character, “Chickens who are killed by McDonald’s suppliers have their throats cut while they are still alive. You must save them from this cruelty!”
A kid-friendly version is available as well.
PETA notes that:
McDonald's American suppliers are under fire for using an outdated killing method that often causes birds to suffer the pain of broken wings and broken legs, to have their throats cut while they are still conscious, and to be scalded to death in defeathering tanks.
PETA is urging McDonald’s U.S. suppliers to adopt a more humane killing method that is being used in Europe.
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ZippyDSMlee: Devrys online corses are about 5-7 grand a year I think.
ZippyDSMlee: Devrys online corses are about 5-7 grand a year I think.
Posted 03/17/10 at 04:40pm
Valdearg: @Zip: Not exclusively Online, I don't think. And it's like 17,000 a year, to attend. Not worth it, IMO.
Valdearg: @Zip: Not exclusively Online, I don't think. And it's like 17,000 a year, to attend. Not worth it, IMO.
Posted 03/17/10 at 04:25pm
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag:do they have online corses?
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag:do they have online corses?
Posted 03/17/10 at 04:22pm
Valdearg: Fun. For what it's worth, at ITT, it was 8 Week Quarters.
Valdearg: Fun. For what it's worth, at ITT, it was 8 Week Quarters.
Posted 03/17/10 at 04:10pm
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag:looky here, http://forums.theeca.com/showthread.php?t=8590
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag:looky here, http://forums.theeca.com/showthread.php?t=8590
Posted 03/17/10 at 04:09pm
ZippyDSMlee: Valdearg:So force our nobles in charge to re join normal sosicty is unrealistic?
ZippyDSMlee: Valdearg:So force our nobles in charge to re join normal sosicty is unrealistic?
Posted 03/17/10 at 04:08pm
Valdearg: Instead of thinking about these fanciful notions of how things should work in your world, you should be thinking how can we realistically fix the problems with our current system. Small steps mean progress, big leaps are usually defeated.
Valdearg: Instead of thinking about these fanciful notions of how things should work in your world, you should be thinking how can we realistically fix the problems with our current system. Small steps mean progress, big leaps are usually defeated.
Posted 03/17/10 at 04:07pm
Valdearg: @Zip: Thinking realistically is the first step to bettering yourself. :P
Valdearg: @Zip: Thinking realistically is the first step to bettering yourself. :P
Posted 03/17/10 at 04:06pm
ZippyDSMlee: They should be treated as part of society not nobility and I have been labeled an incompetent so I can haz my monies, not like its enough to live on....going to be fun when I start devry in a few years.....
ZippyDSMlee: They should be treated as part of society not nobility and I have been labeled an incompetent so I can haz my monies, not like its enough to live on....going to be fun when I start devry in a few years.....
Posted 03/17/10 at 04:04pm
ZippyDSMlee: House/senate/P/VP do not need to be paid , they also should be blocked from working with any industry thats attached to government(even lowest contract bids) after office.
ZippyDSMlee: House/senate/P/VP do not need to be paid , they also should be blocked from working with any industry thats attached to government(even lowest contract bids) after office.
Posted 03/17/10 at 04:02pm
ZippyDSMlee: Also survive<live
ZippyDSMlee: Also survive<live
Posted 03/17/10 at 04:00pm
ZippyDSMlee: They do not need to be paid, the fame,influence,back scratching, free security and reduced housing is all they need to live and work.They live far to far away from society to be charged with its governance....
ZippyDSMlee: They do not need to be paid, the fame,influence,back scratching, free security and reduced housing is all they need to live and work.They live far to far away from society to be charged with its governance....
Posted 03/17/10 at 03:59pm
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag:If I had the millions they did on average I would not need my check to survive.
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag:If I had the millions they did on average I would not need my check to survive.
Posted 03/17/10 at 03:57pm
Valdearg: So, you want congress to work for free while you don't work and get paid.. Sounds totally logical.
Valdearg: So, you want congress to work for free while you don't work and get paid.. Sounds totally logical.
Posted 03/17/10 at 03:56pm
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag: Goverment needs an overhaul not absolute destruction tho I dubt it would be changed any other way >>.
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag: Goverment needs an overhaul not absolute destruction tho I dubt it would be changed any other way >>.
Posted 03/17/10 at 03:55pm
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag:Only if congress stops taking their checks :P
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag:Only if congress stops taking their checks :P
Posted 03/17/10 at 03:41pm
Valdearg: @Zip: Tell you what. How about you be the first to forsake government. You want to neuter it, how about you stop cashing those SSD Checks you receive every month. I mean, if Government is bad, then clearly, that money is corrupt.
Valdearg: @Zip: Tell you what. How about you be the first to forsake government. You want to neuter it, how about you stop cashing those SSD Checks you receive every month. I mean, if Government is bad, then clearly, that money is corrupt.
Posted 03/17/10 at 03:08pm
ZippyDSMlee: Can we neuter government first before we fix health care?
ZippyDSMlee: Can we neuter government first before we fix health care?
Posted 03/17/10 at 02:33pm
Andrew Eisen: I just skimmed the article but it doesn't appear the survey was made up, just that it was sourced incorrectly.
Andrew Eisen: I just skimmed the article but it doesn't appear the survey was made up, just that it was sourced incorrectly.
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McDonald's American suppliers are under fire for using an outdated killing method that often causes birds to suffer the pain of broken wings and broken legs, to have their throats cut while they are still conscious, and to be scalded to death in defeathering tanks.
Sounds exactly like the way my family killed our chickens when I was growing up. The only difference is the chickens were already dead when we dipped them in boiling water to help remove the feathers.
if they can tell me a more "humane" way of slaughtering chickens maybe I could take it for a test spin.
E. Zachary Knight
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
http://www.theeca.com/chapters_oklahoma
I'll take PETA seriously when they talk about being more humane to animals when they kill fewer dogs and cats. Until then, they're still a filthy bunch of two-faced liars and hypocrites.
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Oh, and they also support terrorism and terrorists.
Quoted for truth.
Geaux Saints, Geaux Tigers, Geaux Hornets, Jack Thompson can geaux chase a chupacabra.
It makes sense when terrorists support terrorists.
When Jack Thompson runs his mouth, does anyone really care what he has to say anymore?
You forgot to mention that they are first class hypocrites. I call for the FBI to change PETAs status from non-profit to Hate group. Yup, they fit very well on a list full of Nazi groups, KKK branches, anti-goverment groups and eco-terrorists.
I remember being told about a group of PETA members beating a scientist to death in the streets once, and that when asked about it the local PETA branch said that he deserved to die and that his life was less important than a rat's.
I don't know if its true, but from other stuff that I've seen PETA do and heard them say, I'll believe that it is until proven otherwise. I mean, if it was up to them, anyone that ever even mentioned owning a pet as a good thing would be taken outside and shot. They're more open to human slavery than they are to owning a dog.
I'm no fan of PETA, but you can't just go around telling stories that you haven't verified. Not cool. That is exactly the same as all those news agencies who reported that Mass Effect contained "Virtual porn". When later questioned about it the reported revealed that she hadn't actually seen the clip but was just repeating what had been told to her.
Unruly doesn't look like an organisation that fought for their right to lie to people.
PETA is very well know for condoning violence against researchers and their labs. Also PETA has provided legal support to very well known eco-terrorists. The Mass Effect story cannot be applied on this case since you just need a couple of minutes on google to read about PETA's antics.
If anyone REALLY wants to help animals It'd better to pledge a donation to SPCA instead of the radical lunatics from PETA and HSUS.
While true, you still shouldn't spread unverified stories... just stick to the verified stories; there's enough dirt to condemn them
its prob true, i mean these are the people that freaked when cops shot a chimpanzee after i mauled a woman (ripping her face off) and attempted to attack two officers still in their vehicle.
those officers and the womans life meant nothing compared to the chimp?
They acually used the term sea kittne in the game. World 2 has underwater sections and a fish talks about sea kittens.
E. Zachary Knight
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
http://www.theeca.com/chapters_oklahoma
I'm going to stephen colbert's cue and start talking about eating 'land fish' if they're seriously going to keep up this sea kitten crap.
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Oh PETA you want us to take you seriously, but how can we when you do such stuipid stuff?
BTW I'm all for the better treatment of animals but these people are just crazy.
This coming from people that kills animals so they won;t become pets. Im surprised noone take a bug stand against peta.
http://www.magicinkgaming.com/
“outdated killing methods”
Sooooo... killing 'em is ok. As long as you do it with up-to-date killing methods?
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While I do not agree with PETA as an organization, I admit I am in favor of slaughtering methods that are at least humane. Whlie in the end they still end up dead, there is a huge differnce between 'quick death' and 'slow painful death'. In the past the later was justified with 'well, animals do not actually feel pain anyway' which is now known not to be true.
Now it has moved into more of a 'well, they do not have souls so it does not matter' or 'only commie faggy woman like liberals care, so XYZ does not!' argument.
Or, you know, fuck the animals, let's make as much food to feed as many people as we can.
I did not know you were bent that way. Good to know.
If it's between animals suffering a bit or people being able to get a cheap meal, I know which one I prefer.
Do any serious research in to it, and you'll find that it isn't suffering "a bit", there are some really disgusting methods.
Some practices aren't even sanitary (or that cost effective) versus other methods as touched on by some fellow classmate's research project.
Not to mention i don't think it kill us to implement some slightly humane regulations as due respect to a creature whose life we take for survival, which is one thing i think some ancient cultures like the Native Americans (in general) really got right.
Cut any animals throat (humans included) without hitting the spinal cord and there is no pain for a few seconds. The pain is technically there, but the sensation isn't painful until the brain processes it, however, given the poor nervous system chickens have when processing this data, they actually bleed to death before they can experience any actual pain. Just ripping their heads off or a quick chop to the neck with an axe actually causes more pain (even if it is literally less than a second long).
Think of a paper cut, or the last time you got a good slice on you. You know you got hurt, but it doesn't hurt right away. Later it does, but for these animals, there is no later.
Uh...I believe this game is fairly old. I remember playing it several years ago.
I personally agree that using torturous methods to kill our food is inhumane and immoral, but PETA just goes freaking overboard with everything. (I personally think that hunting an animal that has lived free its whole life is far more humane than raising domesticated animals in cramped cages/small lawns only to kill them without them ever knowing freedom, but that's just me).
-Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis-It is best to endure what you cannot change-
In PETA's mind the only way to be humane is to never kill animals at all, even if you're starving, unless you're them, then it's ok to kill animal to prevent them from going to a possible loving home.
And my dog has known freedom. He's escaped several times already and always comes home.
That was the old Super Chick Sisters where you went after KFC, in this one you go after Mickey D's.
The best part "Make It Viral" posted at the bottom with links for facebook, twitter, etc.
Nothing says "grassroots" like executive design.
Also, anyone know if their use of Mario/Luigi/Bowser/Yoshi is protected under parody law? Wasn't much of a parody.
I'm sorry PETA, Mario's license plate (in either the kid-friendly or adult versions) reads *Mustache Ride* ... wtf?! And yeah, this game is actually a bit old, as I recall it's been on the peta for kids website for quite awhile (at least a year or more). I can't believe anyone would actually lend their names to any of this...PETA is just...ridiculous.
EDIT: Oh, this is *New* Super Chick Sisters, of course...
Wait a second. Why the hell would anyone want to rescue Pamela Anderson? Dumbest. Premise. Ever.
Because she (apprently) supports PETA of course. Who WOULDN'T want to rescue a celebrity PETA member :-P
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I LIKE the fence. I get 2 groups to laugh at then.
Especially one with Hepatitis C, and about as many prospects for real work as Anna Nicole Smith had.
PETA... People Eating Tasty Animails.
or People Emluateing Tacky Posers
Until lobbying is a hanging offense I choose anarchy! Stop supporting big media and furthering the criminalization of consumers!! http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/
Good lord, those folks at PETA need to grow the hell up.
“Chickens who are killed by McDonald’s suppliers have their throats cut while they are still alive."
Why would you slit something's throat if they're already dead. That they were alive before, and not alive after is the whole point. It'd be like saying harvesting crops is bad cause we chop it down "while they are still alive".
Another thought...If we use lasers to cut the chicken's throat, would that make it less old fashioned and therefore okay?
“Chickens who are killed by McDonald’s suppliers have their throats cut while they are still alive. You must save them from this cruelty!”
That doesn't seem all that condusive to my goals. Those goals being eating them.
-Ultimately what will do in mankind is a person's fear of their own freedom-
everytime i read one of these PETA things it makes me hungry for whatever they're trying to ban.
as for slitting a chickens throat.. isn't a little small for that? personally i like the lob its head off and let it run better, and if theres pain involved in that lets do the most humane thing besides lethal injection and drown'em.. afterall thats supposedly one of the least painful ways to go, and you can't inject poison into something you intend to eat.
PETA may actually mean something one day when they stand for what they claim and not activist bullshivic. I.E. Humane and Ethical treatment of animals, vs the ouright abolishment of eating meat, having pets, and/or taking care of an animals well being in general (seriously, anyone recall the complaint of sheering sheep as "unhumane"? ever seen an unsheered sheep?! thats sickening to say the least!)
Shearing sheep is more inhumane to people than the sheep. Sheeps' wool has been known to house a malicious little organism commonly refered to as anthrax. So they get a haircut, and the people die.
-Ultimately what will do in mankind is a person's fear of their own freedom-
lol i said unhumane...
i thought anthrax was from cattle? hmm learn something new everyday i guess. i'm vaccinated against most of it anywho (WOO HOO for illegal test vaccinations on the troops! damn i feel lucky.. 1 in 10k chance of death and i'm on a ship of 5k... that really felt good.. then they kanked it after my 6th shot... erm... okay... NOW we figure out this was illegal? sry, old rant from '04)
Yes I know you said unhumane. But I wanted to use the real word equivalent.
-Ultimately what will do in mankind is a person's fear of their own freedom-
lol i didn't mean that to you, i was laughing at myself for the moronic typo :p
I may not know PETA as much as you all do, but one thing I do know is that the human and animal race has always killed each other and eaten each other just to survive, like ever heard of something called, the 'Food Chain'?