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Cooking Mama: Cookstar Receives Award From PETA For Including Vegetarian Mode

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Animal rights organisation PETA normally makes video game headlines when it calls out a particular title for this or that, but this time it's rather different.

Cooking Mama - a series that has been under fire from the animal rights advocate in the past - has received a "Proggy Award" ("Proggy" translating to "progress") for adding in a vegetarian mode to the upcoming Switch entry, Cooking Mama: Cookstar.

PETA singled out the Cooking Mama series in 2008 when it released a parody game raising awareness about animal abuse within the meat industry. Here's what the Vice President of the organisation had to say about this mode featured in the new game:

Cooking Mama‘s ‘vegetarian mode’ is sure to be a hit with the huge population of gamers who are committed to choosing kindness over cruelty. PETA is honoring Planet Digital Partners for showing other game publishers how to create great games that align with players’ values.

Source: Nintendo Life

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

 

[MayauMiao]

Soon PETA will start to demand Cooking Mama dev to remove meat content.

 

[Juke Joint Jezebel]

Considering the firm's reputation, I'd rather NOT get an award from them!

 

[Digity]

Hard to put a price on something so worthless.

 

[Mistershine.]

I'd patch that mode out if I was the dev.

 

[Bullet Club]

Hopefully you can make this in the game and can send PETA a screenshot.

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[off duty ninja]

This makes me want to create a mobile game where you raise a vegan cat. It’ll be all weak and mangy. You win once it’s dead from malnutrition and never have to play again. Not sure how to monetize it yet.

 

[Contica]

This makes me want to create a mobile game where you raise a vegan cat. It’ll be all weak and mangy. You win once it’s dead from malnutrition and never have to play again. Not sure how to monetize it yet.

Ah yes, the old myths from small boys with fragile egos die hard.

 

[ljubomir]

I have no problem with games having vegetarian content (even exclusively) as long there's no agenda attached. For example had it not been blown by media outlets, I'd never have noticed there's no meat in Stardew Valley. There's no antagonizing or anything, and game still has plenty of fried eggs and fish. I'm ok with that.

 

[off duty ninja]

I have no problem with games having vegetarian content (even exclusively) as long there's no agenda attached. For example had it not been blown by media outlets, I'd never have noticed there's no meat in Stardew Valley. There's no antagonizing or anything, and game still has plenty of fried eggs and fish. I'm ok with that.

I’m totally fine with it myself too. I was a vegetarian for a couple years of my life.

I just think it’s silly that PETA is giving a company an award for not doing anything to actually help animals. They spent money to do this.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Plenty of delicious vegan meals. Wonder if this mans we'll be making more Lebanese food

 

[ROMhack]

Pretty cool news.

 

[BusierDonkey]

I have no problem with games having vegetarian content (even exclusively) as long there's no agenda attached. For example had it not been blown by media outlets, I'd never have noticed there's no meat in Stardew Valley. There's no antagonizing or anything, and game still has plenty of fried eggs and fish. I'm ok with that.

There is a nice mod to fix it anyways