PETA has a problem with almost anything that has to do with animals and now they've taken up a fight against Pokémon Black and White 2 for depicting animal cruelty in the Pokémon universe. Whether it's stuffing a Pokémon into a Pokéball and leaving it there all day or having them beat the crap out of each other, PETA doesn't like any of it. They've even created a spoof video game on their website called Pokémon Black & Blue: Gotta Free 'Em All, in which the premise of the game is for Pokémon to escape their trainers with group hugs and protests.

I hate PETA to my core, I really do. Not because they think that animals should be treated fairly, but because they try to ruin things like video games for everybody else on their crusade to being douchebags. They think that having animals fight in a fantasy world that isn't even real is somehow cruel to animals? That makes perfect sense to me. As a solution I would like to create a video game where I throw PETA members into a pit and go at them with a wood chipper. Technically I wouldn't be hurting animals so it should be perfectly fine for everybody to play.

TL;DR PETA attacks Pokémon Black and White 2 for being cruel to animals even though none of the animals are real.

PETA wages war on Pokemon for virtual animal cruelty [CNET]

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