PETA is up in arms about the newest Assassin's Creed.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (better known as PETA) absolutely does not condone any sort of violence towards animals. Apparently, they won't even make an exception for animals featured in video games.
Recently, Ubisoft showed off the announcement trailer for Assassin's Creed IV: Blackflag, which would feature assassin's living a pirate's life. The game features hunting whales, which is something that PETA finds disgusting.
"Whaling—that is, shooting whales with harpoons and leaving them to struggle for an hour or more before they die or are hacked apart while they are still alive—may seem like something out of the history books," said a PETA spokesperson, "but this bloody industry still goes on today in the face of international condemnation, and it’s disgraceful for any game to glorify it. PETA encourages video game companies to create games that celebrate animals—not games that promote hurting and killing them."
Venturebeat contacted Ubisoft for a statement, and they responded hilariously in kind: "History is our playground in Assassin’s Creed. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is a work of fiction that depicts the real events during the Golden Era of Pirates. We do not condone illegal whaling, just as we don’t condone a pirate lifestyle of poor hygiene, plundering, hijacking ships, and over-the-legal-limit drunken debauchery."
Video games have been blamed in the not-so-recent past for spurring violence in youth. Should American's next fear be for increased whaling in youth?
Which scenario is more likely?:
A. Your average run-of-the-mill Teenage Timmy, after playing through the latest Assassin's Creed video game, pries his butt off his parents sofa, away from the TV and video game system, and decides that what he just did in the video game must be worth doing in real life. Goes to the local marina and hijacks a seaworthy vessel (checking before hand to ensure that the vessel has all the necessary harpooing equipment already on board). Googles how to operate a fishing boat and sails away from the convenience stores, shopping malls, teenage girls and whatever other things teenagers are into, out into the open sea. There, he displays a patience unheard of in modern adolescents, and waits for a whale to reveal himself. Now, a master of boating, he is able to both stear the vessel in order to chase the whale as well as fire the harpoon gun in order to kill the whale.
or
B. Timmy goes to the kitchen to heat a pizza pop while the next game loads on his gaming console.
Which scenario is more likely?:
A. Your average run-of-the-mill Teenage Timmy, after playing through the latest Assassin's Creed video game, pries his butt off his parents sofa, away from the TV and video game system, and decides that what he just did in the video game must be worth doing in real life. Goes to the local marina and hijacks a seaworthy vessel (checking before hand to ensure that the vessel has all the necessary harpooing equipment already on board). Googles how to operate a fishing boat and sails away from the convenience stores, shopping malls, teenage girls and whatever other things teenagers are into, out into the open sea. There, he displays a patience unheard of in modern adolescents, and waits for a whale to reveal himself. Now, a master of boating, he is able to both stear the vessel in order to chase the whale as well as fire the harpoon gun in order to kill the whale.
or
B. Timmy goes to the kitchen to heat a pizza pop while the next game loads on his gaming console.
You gotta nuke somethin'
Lets not go forgetting who these wackos really are. These are the same people who put up a huge fuss about home animal abbuse, while at the same time being the largest single animal killing group in the world.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/petas-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-history-of-killing-animals/254130/
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/is_peta_protecting_animals_or_profiting_from_a_shakedown_game/
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/first_let_kill_all_the_animals_DnyhE723tSo64mkmmM9SUN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/5106600/Peta-under-fire-over-claim-that-it-kills-most-animals-left-at-its-US-headquarters.html
PETA is a group of thugs who swindle people into giving them money to line the pockets of the management, while providing a stage for morons and strippers to whine about injustices. Anyone for animal rights ought to be against PETA.
I have a friend involved in the "no-kill" movement, and he has also pointed this out. PETA is made up of hypocritical parasites, nothing more.
Now, as to the people responding against PETA, let's see about some of the so-called facts brandied about, humans have only existed on this world for an estimated 200,000 years. The humane society and shelters like it takes in an estimated 5-7 million cats and dogs per year, they euthanize an estimated 3-4 million per year, nationwide. The cost to feed, shelter and medical issues for a cat/dog costs about $600 - $800 per year per animal.
As any animal shelter cares about an animal, they can't afford to feed and shelter every single animal that is poorly treated or let loose, that is why euthanizing unwanted animals is considered humane. I've spent time at animal shelters and even adopted rescued animals.