PETA attacks Nintendo over fur wearing Mario.

[Corpsefiend]

So Peta is attacking the new Mario game for letting characters get a costume that resembles a Tanooki, some kind of raccoon looking creature. Claiming it looks like Mario skinned a live animal and is wearing it's fur all Buffalo Bill style. Get this through your head you Nazi pricks, your bashing a fictional character from a fantasy video game that takes place in a purely fictitious setting. What you could do is talk about REAL atrocities that happen to REAL animals on a daily basis in the REAL world, instead of being stupid attention whores. I'm all for animal rights, but when did that line become blurred with complaining about stupid shit that doesn't even have any basis in reality and doesn't help anybody or any animal. Life is way to short for shit like this.

http://ingame.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/14/8802690-peta-attacks-nintendo-over-fur-wearing-mario

[Peachrocks]

What you could do is talk about REAL atrocities that happen to REAL animals on a daily basis in the REAL world, instead of being stupid attention whores.

Unfornately that's why they do it. They know damn well they are wasting everyone's time but this is of no consequence. Are we talking about their cause? Yes... yes we are... they've already suceeded...

People wouldn't pay attention if they did what you suggest... humans are a shallow lot sometimes.

Bugger bro.

[Red Blaster]

I seriously hope they get caught in a scandal and the organization gets disbanded.

[Mike_W]

Fucking hippies. Enough of this shit, it's a game. I suppose they should also make a stink about Vikings and other primitive tribes who would wear animal skins?  GET OVER IT.

[Chrissy]

Haha, I saw that last night and I died.

By the way, PETA is responsible for more animal deaths than your local shelter.
http://petakillsanimals.com/

[BloodChuckZ]

These are the dumbasses who think fish have social lives and went apeshit when the President killed a fly.  Next they'll be trying to save Amoebas. 

[Mike_W]

Don't be giving them any ideas! They'll do it!

[BloodChuckZ]

They don't "save" anything.  The slaughter continues.

[Chrissy]

I'm considering ordering those 'I love PETA' stickers while eating a cheese steak. But only if they're free, so I can deface them and stick them everywhere.

[BloodChuckZ]

If they got a heart symbol there in place of the word 'love', you could write something like 'EAT' in it.

[Chrissy]

hahahaaha!

[BloodChuckZ]

Then write at the bottom, "FOR BREAKFAST".....

[Mike_W]

PETA:

People
Eating
Tasty
Animals

[Corpsefiend]

So this may be the biggest cop out PETA has ever tried to pull....

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-17-peta-anti-mario-campaign-just-a-joke

Animal rights group PETA has admitted its campaign condemning Super Mario 3D Land's furry Tanooki suit was not a serious attack on Nintendo's moustachioed mascot.

"Mario fans: Relax!", a statement from PETA passed to Eurogamer reads. "PETA's game was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, a fun way to call attention to a serious issue, that raccoon dogs are skinned alive for their fur."

PETA has been known to piss and whine about some really stupid shit. Whether it's getting butthurt about Obama killing a fly, being able to kill rats in Battlefield, or Mario wearing fur. I'm willing to bet that they got such a backlash from this due to Mario remaining one of the most popular gaming franchises today, they tried to weasel there way out of it by playing it off as some kind of joke. This is a complete cop out attitude and a sign that they are unwilling to take responsibility for there stupidity. I don't buy it for a second.

[Red Blaster]

Mario fans: Relax!

That alone gives it away as a cop out.