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Everytime a Pokemon game comes out now, PETA feels it has to make a statement.  And it has, once again, with its parody game of Pokemon Red, White, & Blue.

This isn't the first time PETA has accused Nintendo and Pokemon of promoting animal violence.  Back when Pokemon Black and White 2 launched, PETA made this flash game.

Apparently, someone at PETA has no idea what Pokemon is actually about.  It's about befriending animals, not enslaving them or eating them.  Rarely, if ever, in the Pokemon universe do players and viewers see meat products, and when they do, they notice it and question it.  Most of them time in the anime, the characters are surviving off of rice cakes anyways.

But no, PETA thinks Pokemon is about abusing and enslaving animals.  Yes, trainers battle their Pokemon against each other, and that's how trainers catch new ones as well.  However, once a Pokemon is captured, the training and Pokemon work to form close bonds and friendships, and Pokemon that are abused and subjected to torture refuse to listen to their trainers.

No, the real villians in the Pokemon universe are Team Rocket.  Spoiler alert, but in the Pokemon Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow, there was a Pokemon Tower in Lavender Town haunted by the ghost of a Marowak that had been killed by Team Rocket.  How they accomplished this is anyone's guess, because normally Pokemon faint and can be revived and healed at a Pokemon Center.  But I digress.

The Point

The point is, this is what PETA is doing with all of their funds.  They are attacking digital animals, not saving real ones.  Some Pokemon aren't based on real animals, either.  Some of them are based off of piles of sludge or bags of garbage.  Really, PETA, stop attacking Pokemon like this.  This isn't parody.  This is libel and defamation, and Nintendo and now McDonalds should consider taking action.

PETA, there are real animals out there right now that are being killed, tortured, and abused, and they need your help.  Don't attack the game that teaches kids to befriend animals and foil the plans of animal poachers, because that is what Team Rocket does.  They steal and poach Pokemon for profit, while the trainers befriend animals and foil their plans.  Because that is what Pokemon is all about.

I hope I can stop hearing PETA and Pokemon in the same sentence after this.  I really don't like having to associate the two together.

-R