PETA attacks Mario for wearing "fur"; Nintendo responds

[Ketaru]

Gotta admit, I didn't expect to see something like this at all.

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[Kailea]

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PETA is stupid....... the cause is good..... but PETA itself is stupid -.-

[Takelli]

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I said it before, I'll say it again....

Reading the "Teaching its Ok to wear fur" part just made me LOL. What are we going to do with the rest of the animal after its been eaten? Throw it away?...

Would they just rather us throw away the rest of the animal, such as the bones, and fur, and so on, rather than use the rest of it?

[Taskmage]

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I said it before, I'll say it again....

Reading the "Teaching its Ok to wear fur" part just made me LOL. What are we going to do with the rest of the animal after its been eaten? Throw it away?...

Would they just rather us throw away the rest of the animal, such as the bones, and fur, and so on, rather than use the rest of it?

I'm pretty sure they'd rather we didn't kill the animal in the first place. For any purpose.

[Malacite]

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[Takelli]

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I'm pretty sure they'd rather we didn't kill the animal in the first place. For any purpose.

That is true...

but, there are people out there, who would rather eat meat, than just vegetables, and fish, grains, and nuts.

I'd much rather see an animal go to full use, rather than just have the meat eaten, and the rest thrown away, such as what the indians did. They didn't let a single piece go to waste.

[Armando]

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Native americans didn't factory farm.

PETA is still stupid.

[Feba]

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>2011
>taking PETA at face value
>not realizing they are ridiculous solely for the sake of attracting attention to real animal abuse (the 'truth' strategy)
>ishygddt

From the other thread; also in response to BBQ in that thread, when I said "the 'truth' strategy", I wasn't talking about literal truth, I was talking about the truth anti-smoking campaign of a few years back. They were all about doing ridiculous shit for the sake of attention; they pull you in with that, and then once they get you talking about it, going to their website, etc., they've done their job.

Also, what furry animals are you people eating? I don't see a lot of furry goddamn cows out there.

[Taskmage]

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I love me some fried mink.

[Armando]

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I don't remember the 'truth' campaign making such ridiculous leaps of logic. (That's not to say they didn't, but I can't recall.) They were also drawing attention to an issue that's generally accepted (tobacco is bad for you), which makes PETA look all the more ridiculous to me since people can and will debate whether we should give a fuck about animals. I'm not really sure their circus acts and crazy rhetoric do anything to educate people even if it draws attention to the issue.

EDIT: While we're at it, 'truth' only besmirches the name of tobacco companies, which is actually the people they're targeting, and they don't have a good rep to begin with. Nintendo has nothing to do with what PETA's supposed to be crusading for.

[Feba]

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Yellow Mage (Today)

No. Please don't do this.

What you want to do to those animals is not better.

[Armando]

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That was uncalled for, but even if YM were that kind of furry, I'd argue zoophilia can be much better than being a factory farm animal.

[Ketaru]

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I'm not really sure their circus acts and crazy rhetoric do anything to educate people even if it draws attention to the issue.

On the note of circus acts, it seems they're also against animals being used for the purpose of entertaining humans.

[Raydeus]

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No. Please don't do this.

What you want to do to those animals is not better.

I lol'd.


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And since this is the same topic I'll just move my post here.

Yeah, using something like that to draw attention to "the real issue" sounds farfetched at best. Not to mention the nonsense of it all would undermine the original idea so much it would actually trivialize the matter rather than bringing serious attention to it.

End result: I'm am now more likely to kill and skin a raccoon to wear it's fur than I ever was before.




PS > I wonder how many raccoon hides will I need for a square of leather and some leather straps.

[Yellow Mage]

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That was uncalled for, but even if YM were that kind of furry, I'd argue zoophilia can be much better than being a factory farm animal.

That was uncalled for, but even if YM were that kind of furry,

but even if YM were that kind of furry

that kind of furry

mfw I see this has a palm resting on it. That zoophilia is even considered a "kind of furry" is several different kinds of wrong . . .

(Also, thanks removed upon request.)