PETA now protesting mistreatment of Zerglings... you heard me

3/12/13 9:05am

tl;dr

Whoever is in charge of PETA's resources has officially gone completely insane.

Gaming and PETA go together like peanut butter and some really fucking stupid bugs that keep swarming over the peanut butter trying to get your attention. In their long and storied history, they have protested Pokemon glamorizing cockfighting, Mario glamorizing the fur industry, Cooking Mama glamorizing Thanksgiving, and recently, Assassins Creed glamorizing whaling. Not content to just sit back and look like a bunch of asshats once a year, PETA are now planning to protest Starcraft II, for cruelty against rhe Zerg. I am dead serious.

"PETA—or, as we are renaming ourselves in honor of the expansion pack's launch, "Terrans for the Ethical Treatment of Zerglings"—will attend tonight's launch event in Irvine, California, and distribute copies of our new "Zerglings Have Feelings, Too" leaflets as a reminder that gamers and nongamers alike should have compassion for all beings—even those who are very different from us."

If this is a joke, its a fucking terrible one. It has all the sincerity of PETAs older videogame "parodies", just without the self defeating shock value.

"So remember, while Zerglings are not real, there are many equally "strange" and exotic animals we share this planet with who deserve our empathy. Just because crocodiles and snakes look alien to us, that doesn't make it OK to skin them alive for a handbag, shoes, or a belt."

Well, thats not acompletely accurate, as the Zerg are not reptilian, so much as insectoid, making them *SLAPS SELF* WHY AM I DEBATING PETA?!!?

PETA appears to be using this event to try and stir up discussion among gamers about animal equality, linking to a summary of the book Animal Liberation. I hardly feel I need to explain the problem with this, but for those of you who want to hear me rant: Attempting to promote compassion towards non-friendly looking animals by comparing them to videogame aliens doesn't work if the aliens are a race of hive minded killing machines who mindlessly serve the will of a malevolent consciousness. You goddamn hippy morons.

At this point, I would ask how any of you think PETA could possibly make a bigger jackass of themselves, but I honestly can't see it. Still, if you wanna try. leave me a note in the comments. The most creative (stupidest) suggestion will be left on PETA's forums, just to see if they actually do it.

» Source: http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/2013/03/11/peta-starcraft-zerglings-have-feelings-too.aspx
» Tagged In: #community showcase, #PC, #PETA, #Publicity, #StarCraft II

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g1 DISCUSSIONS

NovaNightStar

March 19, 2013 - 4:31am

PETA's only reason for doing ANYTHING is to try to get attention, not for the cause of animals rights or welfair or anything of the sort, just for the sake of the organization reciving attention

Chibi-Acer

March 18, 2013 - 5:46pm

That doesn't even make sense. You play AS the zerg in this expansion! If the zerg are dying it means you're losing. PETA should support this game, as it largely features strange creatures killing humans!

Soupacowz

March 18, 2013 - 5:15pm

Also holy shit, their new name is TETZ.(Teets, hehe.)

Soupacowz

March 18, 2013 - 5:10pm

They should protest Doomguy's ruthless slaughtering of hellspawn, or perhaps Master Cheif's killing of the covenant and flood, etc.

Tyler Knudsvig

March 17, 2013 - 3:51pm

PETA does realize that the Zerg are not only a collective conscience, so killing a zergling is like pulling off a flake of skin, but they are also MINDLESS KILLING MACHINES, that DON'T FUCKING HAVE FEELINGS BECAUSE OF THE PREVIOUSLY STATED HIVE MIND, This is like arguing the human rights of Necrons.

Animators Voice

March 16, 2013 - 7:32am

Aiyah... *facepalm* This is ridiculous... As for suggestions, why not the Invaders from Space Invaders? 'How are we to know if they're invading aliens or rare and precious bugs we're zapping with a stun gun?' Daftest thing I can think of.

Lucerian

March 16, 2013 - 4:00am

With what they've been pulling recently.. I honestly don't know if they're serious!! I'm picturing its just a stupid joke/parody like Super Tofu Boy but again with all the idiocy.....(sigh) I just don't know anymore..

nikuchan

March 15, 2013 - 8:07pm

Peta is not an animal rights groups. I fucking hate these hypocrites. They're bullies and histrionic attention whores. They have no business speaking for the rights of animals when they themselves KILL ANIMALS. Look this shit up, but they euthanize domesticated animals because they don't believe in animal USE, which includes Fido and Fluffy. This is yet another publicity stunt targeted toward video games because they are smart enough to figure out the response from gamers won't be to simply IGNORE THEM.