Random: Cooking Mama: Cookstar Receives Award From PETA For Including Vegetarian Mode

Hmm, makes me want to go grab the older games. PETA can shove it.

.... So when did PETA ever become important to matter about anything?

My mom likes this game, that holds more water than these clowns.... But ya know, to each their own.

Insert Kermit drinking tea pic

Man, the sales are going to tank just from receiving this award, RIP.

So, we will make artificial meat from gluten for Vegetarian Mode.

After hearing this news, i’m now in the mood for some bacon. Yum.

50 PETA Points have been added to your account. :/

It's nice that Cooking Mama has this mode. But PETA is a joke and an award from them is about as meaningful as a participation award in elementary school.

that's not gonna bold well

Who really cares what PETA thinks anyway.

Great to have this option!

Though I'm just a pesco-vegetarian and therefore have no sympathy for fish.

@Ttimer5 Never. No one ever takes them seriously. No one even actively thinks about them. The only time anyone even acknowledges their existence is when they pull stunts like this, and the only reaction they get is an eyeroll and a facepalm.

In fairness there are a few vegetarian gamers out there. Was curious to play this back in the day, and the meat wouldn’t have stopped me if I liked the game a bit more, but I have to admit the thought of cooking up meat (yes I know it’s a mini game) that I would *never eat felt a bit weird for me. As unimportant as this addition may be in the big picture, it’s a very nice gesture, and does make me a little more interested in the game.

• I grew up eating meat (not like some people, but regularly enough), and under certain circumstances, I would probably eat meat to avoid insulting someone. This has only happened maybe twice in 15 years. I quit eating meat at around 20.

P.S. I don’t really have a strong opinion on PETA... I see some good, but their priorities may wonder too far for me to fully throw my support behind them. Meh, idk

This is still just polygons and in no way is a actual food product right?

I don't think PETA and award can go in the same sentence.

I won’t be categorized!

I absolutely read that award name wrong.

Anyway guys, let's not repeat the same shtick from the previous article in the comments, please.

Peta Pan is so green right now.

Personally, I would see PETA attacking you as an award much more approving of than their recognition.

PETA have tried to damage Cooking Mamas reputation with a vulgar parody game full of blood and killing (where even the eggs bleed and the food is rancid to try push an agenda). And they even condemned Nintendo for their cow milking game in 1-2-Switch, which went way too far (no problem with the cowboy shooting each other game though).

PETA is a joke and this only looks like capitulation. Do I think they should have a vegetarian mode? Yes. But they should do it with a big “FU” to PETA who have only done damage.

quite possibly the least prestigious honour in gaming history.

Thats the kind of endorsement that could put people off buying the game 😂

PETA are one of the scummiest companies around. Having them endorse your game is no good thing.

Can someone tell me why PETA are so ill regarded? I mean, I'm not going to say it's good or bad acknowledging vegetarianism, it's just nice.

Imagine how many awards they would give if they also had a "Euthanize Pets" mode!

@GrailUK Their shock jockey style campaigns, absolutism (they consider having a pet animal abuse) and their shelters being more like Nazi concentration camps for dogs; while most shelters may euthanize strays that were not adopted after a certain time, PETA ones do it within hours of taking the dogs in and are known for outright stealing pets from people (they have been sued over this a few times).
They also often outright lie in their campaigns, like the time they paid a fur trader to beat a raccoon dog alive as to break its bones and they claimed this is standard procedure in fur industry (it isn't).
IIRC they also released several captive animals causing local ecological disasters, but my memory is murky on that one.

All in all there's nothing "ethical" about PETA. They give vegetarians and vegans a bad name.

@SmaggTheSmug Wow. They sound fanatical!

I'm more intrigued to get this game now, simply to play carnivore mode. I find nothing wrong with vegans and vegetarians in general, but PeTA are simply the worst.

@Galenmereth Useful idiots like you who defend PeTA, and the even more useful idiots who keep giving them money, are the main reason they haven't gone under.

And yeah, PeTA "plays an important role in keeping tabs on animal rights" just as surely as the Chinese, North Korean, and Saudi Arabian governments keep tabs on human rights. 🤣

Well all I can comment on really is this article. And I haven't got a reason to pick up my sponge pitchfolk (I added go faster stripes yesterday...but they don't do anything). It's a well meaning award. If I happen across something I disagree with, then I'll probably say so. But this? Harmless.

PETA might be a questionable organization, but it's sad seeing some hate for a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle sneaked into some of the comments here, but I think you knew that would happen, NL.

I understand some people can be quite irritating by having a von oben attitude about their choice of lifestyle, but it's not just limited to vegans: there are also meat eaters that take this "holier than thou" approach.

I'm not vegetarian, as I still eat fish, but I think it's good if we all tried to eat more veggie food. At the same time I won't preach and I don't want to ban people from eating meat. I just think we should focus more on producing meat locally under restricted conditions and not importing it. That's not too radical, is it?

Edit: I know this is considered news worthy and maybe worth reporting on, but on the other hand, maybe not? Seeing as this article quickly gained some nasty comments and will get even nastier the longer it goes, as well as the fact that discussions about veganism, and especially if PETA is involved, will almost ALWAYS get political, it's maybe not the best choice of article to publish on a Nintendo site. I know I contributed to it with my comment, but...

@GrailUK Good post. Unfortunately it was inevitable that publishing this article would lead to inflammatory and ignorant comments. It would have been better not to bother, and let us stick to purely talking about games. If I want to debate with people about animal rights or politics then I will do it elsewhere.

@Dogtanian Agree.

I don't like Peta but I am vegetarian so, good mode

Good to see the boards aren't completely full of meat eating snowflakes.
But then, i have a big ignore list....

@Quarth yep some of this stuff doesn't belong in here, but it helped convince me that people I thought were tools, are in fact tools.

@WiltonRoots LOL yeah, that's the sole positive thing about it.

I mean, is that really something to be proud of?

@Sabroni What?

I’m not a fan of PETA, but at minimum this highlights a feature that some gamers wished would be present.

PETA are horrible, but I'm still happy about the vegetarian mode. I'm not even vegetarian anymore, but it's a totally valid lifestyle choice that I may go back to one of these days.

I get that vegetarians and vegans can be annoying sometimes, but not all vegetarians are fanatical crusaders. Most of them, in fact, are not. I was vegetarian for five years or so and never once tried to push my choices on other people or shame anyone for eating meat. It's just a freaking dietary choice. There's no reason whatsoever to get defensive about it.

I would bet good money that almost every person in the comment thread knows at least one person who is vegetarian, has been vegetarian for years, and you don't even know it because they never made a big deal about it. (Obviously this varies a lot by region and lifestyle, so don't bother being that guy who says "nuh-uh, not around here!!")

I wasn't really planning to buy another Cooking Mama game - my kid already has two or three of them on DS - but Veggie Mode has put it back on my radar.

Let's start with the positive: It is great that the game has a vegetarian mode. It isn't forced on anyone, but the option exists for those who care. That should be celebrated by all.

Now for PETA: Like other extremist wings of movements, they shouldn't be given the time of day. Yet in America especially, the news media gives them way too big of a pulpit to preach because their actions tend to invoke strong reactions and garner clicks/eyeballs/comments for the media companies. In their zeal to spread their "gospel", they are willing to spread falsehoods or claim facts that don't exist (dairy causes autism was one of their claims), and likewise have been caught doing the very things they speak against (killing animals in their "shelters").

To me getting an award from PETA carries about the same appeal as a game getting an achievement award from Neo-Nazis, the KKK or ISIS. Doesn't matter if the merit is focused on something that should be celebrated, the source it comes from taints it.

@Luffymcduck Nor should you feel for fish. Most Fish are actually so braindead that they can't even feel pain. Like, they don't have the neuro-physiological capacity for a conscious awareness of pain.

what about the vegan option?

I remember that time they made cooking mama into some insane person.

And almost everyone will play the game on normal mode, barely noticing the option exists, even the few vegetarians that are playing... because unlike Peta, they know cooking mama isn’t real.

But it’s still a nice thought.

Peta means nothing and we should never acknowledge their existence. I really am excited for this game tho

I don't eat meat (ew), and while I personally wouldn't mind seeing this sorta stuff in game it is actually pretty cool and progressive to add the option. Good for them I guess.

Gotta throw thw whole game away, this company is honestly disgusting

@Joekun I logged in just to like this comment.

>Peta

So nothing important to discuss, yes?
I'm not against vegans but these snobby radical left clowns over at PeTA need to shut up about everything they see as harmful to animals. They even tried to get Pixar to remove Bo peep's sheep from Toy story 4 simply because of the history of sheep herders. Seriously, these are some of the most butthurt people in an organization I've ever heard of.

FFS. It's just a game PETA. No real animals were harmed in the previous non-veggie versions.

Peta shouldn't exist at all. Crazy people. Should just ignore them.

@Luffymcduck You and Animal Crossing both. My villagers cheer me on as I’m killing a fellow animal kingdom member.

I have no problem with vegetarians and vegans, nor with the developer including a vegetarian mode. People can eat what they like and are comfortable with in my book. Just don't shame anyone else for how they eat or their reasoning for why.

PETA itself though....I'm all for the proper treatment and non-abuse of animals and for natural/free range farming practices over factory farming, but their extremism, hypocrisy, and misinformation all reflect poorly on them. There are many better, more ethical animal rights organizations that are worth your time and money.

This is super cool!! As a vegan I really respect this move. Thank you, Nintendo!

Not a vegetarian but I think it is great that they have the mode. Let everybody enjoy the cooking game.

I don't understand why people are so worked up about this game having vegetarian mode.

Is there going to be a vegetarian panic now?

@LucyP Oh yeah, I am sure that was a vicious, dangerous animal that needed to be put down
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/17/peta-sorry-for-taking-girls-dog-putting-it-down

@youneedtocalmdow It's not about the mode itself, it's people being disgusted with PETA, as they have a history with Cooking Mama, using it in their weird and disgusting propaganda. Someone mentioned above, they made a flash Cooking Mama "parody" in which pulling feathers off a turkey or cracking eggs resulted in bleeding. Some people seem to think vegetarian mode was a response to that.

Being an animal defender myself, there are few things worse than PETA.

@SmaggTheSmug oh I'm aware of all that.

But even before this happened, a sizable portion were upset. Just check the previous articles.

Hmmmm the meat in any version would still be less compared to the carcasses of all the animals PETA has killed.

Akin to getting a best soundtrack award from the Manson family

@Ttimer5

I don't understand the hatred to PETA at all tbh. I haven't really followed them the last few years, but since when is protecting animal rights a crime? Also, I see some people thinking there is a commercial objective, whut. Mind you, I'm in EU, so I don't know of any incidents that may have happened in some shelter in the US or whatever. Is there a better organization out there that seeks to protect animals from getting hurt?

@Aaronnnnn GOOD TO SEE THE BOARDS AREN'T COMPLETELY FULL OF MEAT EATING SNOWFLAKES.
BUT THEN, I HAVE A BIG IGNORE LIST....

PETA's being positive for once in its pathetic existence? That's a shocker.

@Galenmereth They are not the only animal rights champions group on the block and many of the other ones actually care, aren't cruel, hypocritical psychopaths and actually do good work for the animals without resorting to shock tactics.

@Sabroni Still have no clue what you're on about, but alright mate