Majesco bites back at PETA attack

[Xander]

Earlier this week, animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) took a bite out of Majesco’s Cooking Mama: World Kitchen.

To make its point, PETA offered Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals, a parody which features a blood-thirsty Mama coaching the player through slicing and dicing a Thanksgiving turkey (already dead, despite the title).

PETA apparently took issue with the new Wii title's meat-heavy menu, calling the game "so heavy on dishes that are made from dead animals that the only things missing are the blood and gore...”

Not surprisingly, Majesco disagrees with that view. Yesterday the game publisher issued a response to PETA:

[Of 51 total recipes] Cooking Mama World Kitchen includes more than 25 vegetarian-friendly recipes including delicious breakfast, dinner, dessert and snack options. And, while Mama is not a vegetarian, she fully supports the humane treatment of animals, particularly for her canine protégé Max who makes his doggie debut in World Kitchen.

While a press release is not as awesome as responding with a parody flash game of its own, Majesco still had a bit of fun by including a quote from Mama herself:

I would never put rat in my Ratatouille. Like any accomplished cook, I create my recipes to appeal to a broad range of tastes and preferences. My only goal is to ensure you leave the table well fed.

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Wow, I didn't actually think that PETA disliked Cooking Mama, just used as a symbol to make a flash game (cause really, there aren't too many other cooking sims out there).

I kinda like how Majesco passes the whole thing off as silly (since this statement appears to nothing more than clearing up a misconception) by telling PETA to listen to "Mama" herself.

[darkcat1]

hey people will take stabs at anything nowadays....it's to the point of being silly...

I hate Politically Correct!

[Darth_1978]

PETA is lucky they didn't get sued for copyright infringement of Mama.

[Misterpwnage]

Cooking Mama, officially on my must buy list just for this reason alone. Way to show PETA Majesco. XD

[iNAKO]

Haha that's majesco's way of saying "STFU PETA Its a video game!"

[Asassinator X]

Originally Posted by Darth_1978

PETA is lucky they didn't get sued for copyright infringement of Mama.

So darn lucky....

[M3Fox]

Maybe a vegatarian-only expansion pack?

And because there's meat, Mama is a murderer... right. I liked the dog rebuttal, though. LOL

[Lopez]

i agree with peta when it comes to things like live animals being tortured but its a freakin game lol

[Zezima]

Cooking Mama rlly does fails.

[Gurrah]

Originally Posted by Zezima

Cooking Mama rlly does fails.

Did you actually read the article?

Anyway, I think that it's quite good that Mejesco just ignored the PETA, who are making a lot of fuss over nothing, the PETA are lucky they weren't sued by Mejesco in return for making that parody.

[Xander]

Originally Posted by Gurrah

Did you actually read the article?

Anyway, I think that it's quite good that Mejesco just ignored the PETA, who are making a lot of fuss over nothing, the PETA are lucky they weren't sued by Mejesco in return for making that parody.

Well, you can't really sue someone for making a parody of something, and since they aren't making a profit off of it or claiming it was their own, I don't think Majesco had a case.