Fighting KFC through Video Games
Posted by Matt Cipriano | 8 Comments
It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that PETA is not a big fan of KFC. To get this point across they have the website Kentucky Friend Cruelty to explain their problems with the fried chicken manufacturer.
Something you’ll find on the site that is a little different is the PETA video game Super Chick Sisters (SCS). Based on the classic Super Mario Brothers SCS is the story of two chicks who need to save the Princess Pam Anderson who was kidnapped by the Colonel for giving away the secrets of KFC (apparently the flavor comes from animal cruelty) through out the game there are little side characters who give you PETA talking points about the horrible things that KFC does to their chickens. Mario and Luigi even make appearances in the game, they are trying to recover from their Wii related injury because Mario feels that he is the nly one who can save “Princess Pam.”
I get it, KFC treats their chickens poorly and should probably have slightly more respect for the birds, but they are a fast food restaurant. They are not raising chickens to have a healthy and fruitful life, they are raising them until they are just plump and tender enough to cook. I am a bit torn on this one, while I am sure KFC should change their practices, I also find PETA’s message to be a bit on the extreme side. While KFC is probably a PETA problem I am not convinced that other companies, like say McDonalds, are treating the animals they raise for meat much better.
Oh, and another nod to Mario Brothers, at the end of the game, when you are battling the Colonel he starts off wearing a mask of the final villain from Mario Brothers. Oh, and beat the game and you will get a code to play as Pamela Anderson.
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August 29th, 2008 @
F*** KFC! Chickens deserve to live a nice and healthy life like us….. Well most of us!
February 19th, 2009 @
Hala Black, i come licking my fingers. i dont see why should there be such a fight about KFC, i mean dont you think that every lil chicken you’ve ate in your life has been slaughtered inhumanly? I mean its not like they prepare the chicken for it death or give it councelling. so to all yall chicken lovers PEACE!!! IM STREET WISE!!! lol
March 23rd, 2009 @
I HATE THEM
April 16th, 2009 @
I love animals.. cooked! Especially fried.. I ate twice at my local kfc in the past month. It was well worth it. I gave them a proper burial then 24hrs later they were washed out to sea lmao….
April 24th, 2009 @
The spurting blood fountains and scrumptious looking little yellow chicks were actually motivation enough for me to drive risk driving a 30 year old safety-inspection failed Volvo all the way to town and use my credit card for KFC.
May 16th, 2009 @
Its a brutal thing to eat chickens or any other animals. For example I ate chicken all my life withitout knowing what it really was, well I ate it because it tasted better than spnatch. Then one day when I was over 15 I opened my deep freezer and saw the first chicken body. OMG it looks just like a human. It had two eyes, two legs, two hands/wingd, one mouth. It was just like a human. Then I figured out its anatomy and skeletal structure from my biology book. Yeah, the chicken skeleton had so many thing common to the human skeleton. It had the rib cages, the legs bones, the neck bones that we usually blunder and the head or skill. So eating a chicken is just like eating anther animal like human. But can we really bother to care about that… it was a curse to become the most visious animal called man in the first place.
May 22nd, 2009 @
Well this is actually natural all humans need to eat meat i love chicken its my favorite is natural 2 eat meat soo 2 all you vegeterians out theyre think about it when youre 40…..Youll need protein,Calories etc meat producces energy everyone needs energy 2 move and do acivities……Its natural the human needs 2 eat meat 2 survive..
May 26th, 2009 @
Hey vegetarians out there: don’t take the bait. The last comment may just be a troll, but if not I’ll simply say that I’m not a vegetarian, I absolutely love eating all kinds of dead animals when cooked properly, but eating meat is hardly necessary in the human diet and it is only through modern man’s capabilities of crafting tools and building fire that we are even able to consume meat.
Proteins and calories can come from many other sources that are, incidentally, much healthier than meat.
Just saying…none of our closest mammalian relatives (namely all the other primates) eat meat.
There’s a difference between making the decision to eat meat because you like it and being ignorant of the science behind your opinions.