Now that PETA has run out of real life people to harass, they’ve turned to the world of video games.
In the new trailer for Assassin’s Creed IV (ahem…a video game), (fake) whales are (fake) killed.
PETA’s outraged response:
Whaling—that is, shooting whales with harpoons and leaving them to struggle for an hour or more before they die or are hacked apart while they are still alive—may seem like something out of the history books, but this bloody industry still goes on today in the face of international condemnation, and it’s disgraceful for any game to glorify it. PETA encourages video game companies to create games that celebrate animals—not games that promote hurting and killing them.
Because kids are going to play this game and totally grow up to join a Japanese whaling boat and harpoon the shit out of Shamu.
Ubisoft, the creator of Assassin’s Creed, responds:
History is our playground in Assassin’s Creed,” Ubisoft said in a statement to the publication. “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is a work of fiction that depicts the real events during the Golden Era of Pirates. We do not condone illegal whaling, just as we don’t condone a pirate lifestyle of poor hygiene, plundering, hijacking ships, and over-the-legal-limit drunken debauchery.
And even if the game does glorify whaling — as it certainly glorifies the life of a pirate — I don’t think it will lead to a generation of gamers who head to the Caribbean to hunt down humpbacks. Just as I don’t think anyone who played the previous Assassin’s Creed games have found employment as a murderer for hire.
That’s how you respond to complete and utter lunacy.
Looking forward to PETA attacking the creators of Tamagotchi because they depict creatures being overfed.
