Ringling Bros. bad, says PETA. Photo Courtesy Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey
We've told Take-Two about Ringling Bros.' real-life, lengthy history of animal abuse and neglect and shown it undercover video footage of a standard industry training session, in which animal handlers used electric prods and bullhooks to gouge elephants in the most sensitive parts of their bodies.
Even though it knows that circuses are no fun for animals, Take-Two is still moving forward with its plan to create a Ringling Bros. Wii game. Please send a message to Take-Two CEO Ben Feder urging him to sever ties with Ringling Bros. Let him know that you'd rather play a game featuring a circus that does not beat animals for "entertainment."
This isn't the first time PETA's spouted off about video games. In November last year, the animal rights group released a video game parody of the popular Nintendo game series, Cooking Mama. The parody, called 'Cooking Mama Kills Animals' featured cooking lessons that included plucking feathers and removing a turkey's internal organs.
"We're having a bit of fun at Mama's expense, but there's nothing funny about the suffering endured by turkeys and other animals who are killed for food," PETA's Joel Bartlett said.
All of this finger-pointing doesn't come out of left field, however. As recently as March this year, Ringling Bros. has been on trial for elephant abuse.
As for the Ringling Bros. game, we're sure the show will go on; and PETA -- bless their bleeding hearts -- has probably ensured that more people will go buy this silly circus game to see what the controversy is all about.
Reader Comments (48)
Ok first off, this board isnt about whos destroying the Earth or whether vegetarians are screwing the earth over or whether meat people are. Face it people we're all humans. We will all fall together and it will be EVERYONES fault. So you eat meat and we don't ok thats fine its just a simple preference in foods! Ya theres radical vegatarians out there who think meat eaters are horrible and theres meat eaters who think vegetarians are horrible so ya the people like that are truly the ones at fault, not everyone of that category. Please do not steryotype vegetarians or meat eaters simply because some of each group is up and arms. It is a truly foolish thing to do. Remember the REAL focus of this board here, isn't it about the PETA and its game not whose killing the world? Go talk about that elsewhere, but here is for this new carnival game and the protests about it, now what do you think about it?
Vegetarians are not killing the earth. One acre of grain will feed one meat-eating human for a year. One acre of grain will feed twenty vegetarians for a year. Growing grain for meat-eaters is a big factor in destruction of the environment. If you are allergic to nuts, there are non-meat products that provide protein- providing you're willing to research. Human rights activists lob for better rights for abused people (especially in foreign countries), not for the wrongness of homicide. If a person is reenacting a shooter game, human rights activists won't have to step in as the law will. I'm not a vegetarian and I don't support PETA, but spiting PETA (especially with an article published on AIM) with uneducated responses will only perpetuate this drama.
PETA IS ****ING RETARDED PLAIN AND SIMPLE.GAMES LIKE GTA PORTRAY PEOPLE GETTING KILLED AND THEY DONT GIVE TWO ****S.GO HUG A TREE OR PERFORM SOME ACT OF BEASTALITY YOU IDOTS.THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE THE GAME REGARDLESS OF YOUR BLEEDING HEART ANIMAL PROPAGANDA.IM GOING TO EAT A STEAK NOW.
wow screw animal rights mmmm tasty and screw peta there a bunch of ***s kill animals hurt them who cares
Yeah PETA is pretty rediculous. they compaired a puppy to a boy and said their was no difference between the two. now wut if that boy was Jesus; or albert instine.... now is there a difference? we have four K-9's in our mouth because we as human are whatever the words is that mean we eat vegetables and meat. the human race wouldnt exhist if it wasn't for meat. except for Dogs, i love dogs, i dont know how people abuse or eat dogs...but hey it's their taste buds not mine, if you like to eat dog...go for it lol
Vegetarians are killing the earth. Plants absorb harmful carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Cows absorb oxygen and produce not only carbon dioxide but poisonous methane gas that increases global warming very rapidly. Vegetarians, however, decide to eat these precious oxygen producing organisms while allowing evil cows to run around and produce poisonous methane gas. We should all do our part in saving the earth and eat a cow.
its okay
oh,sorry for the confusion
red rose i was talking about the vegetarians that wont shut the hell up about it and tries tomake other people vegetarian
Honestly people, why are we even talking about this? Who cares! If the PETA means nothing to you all, why insult this? Move on and stop trashing thsi with agressive words please, save those words for more important things besides a video game seriously! And on another note, please don't trash vegetarians, not all vegetarians support all this PETA stuff....and PETA doesn't mean your a vegetarian...it just means that they are against animal cruelty...their hearts are in the right place but their actions are all wrong...please try to understand that every vegetarian is not insulting people who eat meat and plants like that....thankyou