World of the Bizarre

PETA condemns Pokemon as 'animal abuse'

By T.K. Randall
October 11, 2012 ·  142 comments

Image Credit: CC 2.0 Rob Brooks The Pokemon series of video games has been a firm favourite amongst kids and adults alike for years, but now PETA has launched a campaign to combat the latest game in the series because they say it condones animal cruelty. Players in the games must collect various Pokemon and store them in a 'pokeball' before training them up for use in battles with other trainers.

"The amount of time that Pokemon spend stuffed in pokeballs is akin to how elephants are chained up in train carts, waiting to be let out to 'perform' in circuses," PETA wrote on its web site. "But the difference between real life and this fictional world full of organized animal fighting is that Pokémon games paint rosy pictures of things that are actually horrible."

Source: CNET | Comments (142)

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