PETA Convinces SEGA to Pull Ad for Samba de Amigo
By Jonathan on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at 1:42 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Games, Games Industry, Nintendo, Sega
PETA is really happy with SEGA. So happy they even sent them a little “Thank You” card along with little monkey-shaped vegan chocolates. What did SEGA do to receive such a gift? They pulled ads for the Wii version of Samba de Amigo after PETA asked them to do so. The ad (shown above) featured a chimpanzee running around a family’s house waving a pair of maracas. Most people might see that and just chuckle, because monkeys are naturally the funniest creatures on Earth. Not PETA however; they saw a poor little monkey with a dark past and an even darker future, which they shared with the video game publisher:
We explained how involuntary chimpanzee “actors” are taken away from their mothers when they are just a year or so old and forced to perform confusing and repetitious tricks. We also explained some of the horrible methods that chimpanzee “trainers” use, such as electric shocks with shock collars and prods, isolation, beatings with sawed-off pool cues and slapjacks, and food deprivation. Then, at the ripe old age of just 8, the chimpanzees reach puberty and their showbiz careers are over—and they end up being dumped at dismal roadside zoos or sold to laboratories for experimentation.
Leave it to PETA to take all the fun out of our monkey-related entertainment. For their part, SEGA pulled the ads quickly; which shouldn’t have been too painful since they were released over five months ago. They also promised to leave any apes out of future ads. Meanwhile, the rest of us are going have to live with the fact that movies like Dunston Checks In and MXP: Most Xtreme Primate have been ruined forever.
Terrible, Ive read the PETA so called statement, and is laughable at best. Small chimps are taken away from their moms at the jungle to make a commercial, then trainers then for some reason torture them almost to death to make them act.
Seriously guys, ALL monkeys are stolen from the jungle then tortured all of THEM? none of them come from a zoo, are trained by humane people who actually loves animals? all trainers are malicious villains that could perform in the saw series, seriously?
Best part is the ending though, the chimps are then sold to a circus (terrible place for a trained animal who was adopted in captivity) or to a zoo? guys even I know you can not take a trained, housed animal to the jungle, it would get killed or die of starvation since it doenst know how to get food and is not part of a pack. Get real.
Lots of supposition, not enough proof.
PETA can go fuck themselves
Now, excuse me while I go kill random animals…
Seriously, Sega should have told PETA to go fuck themselves. They are nothing short of evil.
Seriously people, look into PETA. Their methods, their motivations. They are fucking evil, end of story.
I have the urge to kill monkeys… not sure why…
“monkeys are naturally the funniest creatures on Earth”
If you really think this you’re dumber than a monkey. lol cheese monkey ninja pirate crack SO RANDOM!!!!!11