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PETA Creates Baby Seal Game

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has recently set its crosshairs on Canada's annual tradition of hunting baby seals. The Flash game has players control a baby seal around hunters with clubs as it slides down a hill.

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It's illegal to hunt baby seals, only the adults can be shot.
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ASSASSYN 36o5255d ago

I wonder if we get to play the hunters?

snipermk05255d ago

Now, just give me guns and some semtex and I should be good, hehe. :P

Anon19745255d ago

When you sled right into the clubbers, nothing happens!
Now, if it had been like Bloody Pingu, that would be happening. It's not seals, but clubbing penguins can be fun to!

http://www.smgamers.com/?p=...

Seriously though. The seal population has been increasing since the 70's and the hunt has long been monitored. Even the "clubbing" has been ruled on by the Canadian humane agencies consulting with vets on behalf of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. They had recommendations on how the hunt could be more humane but found no problem with the actual "clubbing" act itself "The hakapik is an efficient tool designed to kill the animal quickly and humanely."

Even the World Wildlife Fund did a study in 2005 and found "Perception of the seal hunt seems to be based largely on emotion, and on visual images that are often difficult even for experienced observers to interpret with certainty. While a hakapik strike on the skull of a seal appears brutal, it is humane if it achieves rapid, irreversible loss of consciousness leading to death."

What people don't like is the thought of something cute being killed, or for the image of the blood on the stark white ice. If there were white sheets down on the slaughter house floor anywhere it'd probably shock most people. PETA just doesn't like the fact that wildlife agencies who monitor the hunt don't back them up like they'd like, so they go after the impressionable children with flash games like this.

It sickens me that a group like PETA would target their propaganda at our children.

ChrisW5255d ago

"The organization has been criticized for the style and content of its campaigns, and for the number of animals it euthanizes. It was also criticized in 2005 by Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe, who said it had acted as a "spokesgroup" for the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, after those groups were listed in a draft planning document as domestic terrorist threats by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security."

IN OTHER WORDS:
PETA condones "domestic terrorism!"

SilentNegotiator5255d ago

PETA cares more about animals than their own brethren. Screw them.

Bnet3435255d ago

I want to eat that baby seal for dinner. First I punch it to knock it unconscious, then I stab it and cook it on an open fire. Yeah, that would be nice cooked seal meat for my tummy.

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Pandamobile5255d ago (Edited 5255d ago )

Why should we care if a group of terrorists make a flash game?

http://www.infowars.com/u-s...

kneon5255d ago

Peta are a bunch of nut cases that seem out of touch with reality. They have also lost their "charitable organization" status in some countries as so little of the money they get is actually used to help animals.

As for the hunting of baby seals, that has been outlawed since 1987. But as the adult seals aren't nearly as cute they need to continue to perpetrate that myth in order to continue getting donations. If these animals were ugly no one would have ever cared.

TheBand1t5255d ago

I think everyone on this site can agree that PETA is a crock of garbage.

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A Matter Of Trust: What The Game Industry Should Do To Win Gamers Back

Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.

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anast3d ago

Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.

Garethvk3d ago

How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.

anast3d ago

Wait until release. Watch Gameplay. Exercise patience.

Garethvk3d ago

But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.

1nsomniac3d ago

Get rid of the suits in the industry and job done!!

Garethvk3d ago

They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.

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From The Last of Us to Baldur's Gate 3: The success of the Game Music Festival

Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.

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Famous actor loves Helldivers 2 and wants to play General Brasch in movie adaptation

A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.

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