PETA Gets a Low Score with Mario Brothers Fans

I like animals. The organization PETA really, really likes animals. Or so they would like you to think. I think they like themselves as an organization more than they like animals and real issues involving the safety of the critters on the planet are being shuffled to the bottom of the pile as PETA embarks on ridiculous attention getting crusades to fund more ridiculous crusades. The latest PETA silliness involves Super Mario Brothers the video game and here are my thoughts on that.

Super Mario Brothers is the game that really put Nintendo on the map. Mario is an icon to the entire video game industry and even for those who are bigger fans of Link from Zelda: Mario is Nintendo. The latest Mario involved video game to be released by Nintendo at the time of this writing is called Super Mario 3D Land is on their handheld system the 3DS. Just like the suit he wore in the age old classic Super Mario Brothers 3, Mario dons a raccoon looking Tanooki suit. PETA is against this fashion statement.

PETA is making a fuss over the video game depiction of a Tanooki suit saying that it promotes killing animals to wear their fur. This is hogwash and a waste of your time PETA. It makes one want to throw eggs at you and watch the non fertilized non baby chickens slide down your faces.

You gain the Tanooki suit in the Mario universe of videos games by collecting a leaf that then magically grants you the suit. You can call it a suit or you can choose to think Mario has changed form altogether if you want. The point is: it is a magic suit that magically appears and in no way is there any implication that it was ever the fur off of a living animal. The things Mario can do in the suit, nope, Tanooki's are not capable of. Who is to say it is fur? Perhaps the suit is made of magic materials designed to look like the Tanooki in order to mimic certain movements or strengths.

One could say PETA has an argument in this matter in the same way one can say fake fur still promotes wearing fur, it only takes inspiring one confused person with a piece of fashion to get an animal clubbed to death. However, let's interject with the reality of this video game fantasy and pose this question: who in the world is going to play Super Mario 3D Land and take from that experience that it is cool to go skin animals? PETA's logic is merely a selfish grab for attention.

PETA has crossed a line in this issue involving the Mario Brothers video game ala they have taken themselves out of reality and gone off into LaLa Land. Game over. PETA loses. Please PETA, just go back to having celebrities pose naked for pictures; this I like.