PETA and Super Mario

This is a late blog, but, it’s better to be late than never, correct? Well, PETA, which for those of you lost, stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Now, you may ask how does PETA have anything to do with Super Mario, and I’m not referring to Mario Lemieux, who in his playing was referred to as Super Mario. This is the familiar plumber Super Mario and Nintendo’s newest video game involving him for the 3DS called Super Mario 3D Land.
In the latest incarnation of the Super Mario games, Mario can jump into a tanooki suit, which is a Japanese raccoon dog and can fly. Now, how this has anything to do with an unethical treatment of an animal, I don’t know, but if someone could please tell me, it’d be greatly appreciated in the comments section. Mario wears the tanooki suit to fly, which again doesn’t make sense, but it’s a cartoon video game, these things aren’t supposed to make logical sense at all.
Now, PETA says that it’s wrong because “Tanooki may be just a suit in the game, but in real life tanuki are raccoon dogs who are skinned alive for their fur,” PETA’s site states. “By wearing a Tanooki, Mario is sending the message that it is OK to wear fur.” That quote is directly from FOX News, where I got the story from.
Now, I understand PETA and their objections to folks wearing fur and such, because of the heinous acts that are sometimes used to obtain the fur from certain animals like Tanuki. But, these games are meant for kids, and I don’t think any little boy or girl will go up to their parents and say this “mommy, can I have a fur suit just like Mario wears?” As the request is just dumb. But, apparently, PETA thinks it will actually happen.
Now, PETA, to the best of my recollection, and google’s for that matter, has never before made such an uproar over a uniform in their 31 years of existence. PETA was formed in 1980. PETA has put out game parodies of Super Mario in their existence, but these were more meant for food companies like McDonald’s and KFC which folks with knowledge already know they don’t treat their animals humanely.
So, this is really just a public relations move by PETA to get their name out there for the sake of getting their name out there. They always want attention, and now they’ve got themselves some, way to go PETA.
As for Nintendo, continue to put Super Mario in whatever kind of costume you want, whether it be Tanooki, Penguin, or Frog. Go ahead and put him in other animal costumes as well, because, I can assure you, gamers don’t really care what PETA thinks.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/16/peta-slams-pro-fur-super-mario/#ixzz1ePQy6cLZ