This is probably surprising to many after recent news that PETA attacked the E rated cooking game Cooking Mama.
Everyone that has played Fable 2 should know by now that the game includes a good amount of slicing up mythical creatures, chicken kicking, eating live chicks, and blowing innocent bunny rabbits to bits.
Below are PETA's reasons for picking Fable 2 as game of the year.

Created by Microsoft Game Studios, Fable 2 is a vegetarian's dream come true. Why? In this virtual fight between good and evil, characters powered by tofu are just as powerful as their meat-eating counterparts and are more fit and attractive to boot. Featuring a strong pro-vegetarian theme, eating a plant-based diet helps you rack up "purity" points, whereas eating meat makes your character fat and evil. A fun and innovative game, it's also an effective tool that teaches gamers the real-life benefits of a vegetarian diet.
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  • 0
    Darknet* Jan 7, 09
    Minus the fact that I can shoot rabbits and crows in the game.

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      FinalFantasyFanaticc Jan 7, 09
      Don't forget that you get an achievement for killing a rabbit.

      And you also get an achievement for kicking a chicken.

      Yay for being rewarded for being cruel to animals! XD
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    Shiny Mew Jan 7, 09
    PETA is like, against killing animals and stuff right? WTF
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      Mr Gray Jan 8, 09
      tHAT'S THE AWESOMENEST EMOTICON EVER.
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    Killosity Jan 7, 09
    Well the game won awards
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    Bale Fire Jan 7, 09
    I think its kind of dumb you get termed 'evil' for eating meat personally.
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    Xeros the Slayer Jan 8, 09
    You're not evil, just not fit.
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    BANDITO ATTACK Jan 8, 09
    oh god. oh god. oh god. oh god. oh god. oh god. oh god. oh god. oh god. oh god. oh god. oh god. oh god.

    just shut up and eat your *bleep*ing tofu you faggots.
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    ShadowJ Jan 8, 09
    HAHA, I would love to invite a PETA rep to dinner...not for them to eat but to watch me guzzle down a 16oz steak!

    and vegetarians wonder why they have a bad reputation...they are backed up by idiots like this

    The reason I dislike PETA is because instead of going for the people that intentionally hurt and kill animals for fun like game hunters or the moronic population who believe hanging kittens or giving a dog a can of stella and then beating it with a stick...or the stupid woman who starved her dog and caused it to lose 40lbs, which then to treat it she gave it shampoo...they instead go for companies such as KFC and the end consumers.

    I'm sorry but I would rather know that animal that lands on my plate was born, raised and fed correctly then given a painless death (which despite whatever PETA or animal rights activists state...they do, they have special tools that gets the job done quick and painlessly) instead of knowing that someone was intentionally abusing, hurting and killing animals just for their enjoyment.

    No one will stop me eating meat, not even if I watched the process of how my meat is produced...only person who can and will stop me, is me...anyhoo the above is more towards PETA than the article.

    The article itself is laughable mainly because like I mentioned, it isn't about the end product on the plate...it is how the starting product that is still alive and how it is treated...which for Fable...sure in a virtual world it is great, amusing and down right awesome to kick a chicken as far as you can but not once did I ever think..."yeah I will strictly stay to a diet of tofu and plant leaves"
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    Gamesta100 Jan 8, 09
    KFC was a bad store for you to mention.Have you see footage of what they do to their chickens? My sister told me about it and I was disgusted and vowed to never eat KFC again.

    Now I don't want anyone to say, but I bet other companies do the same thing and I bet you eat their food.Because the fact is that if I don't know what they do to their animals then I will continue to eat their food until I actually find out for myself.
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      Chais Jan 8, 09
      KFC doesn't torture their chickens. Their distributors do. There's a difference.
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    kspiess Jan 8, 09
    The reason why I have no respect for PETA is that there was this gruesome murder this year in Canada, where a guy beheaded a innocent person on a bus with a knife, and then a week later PETA tried to capitlize on this by releasing advertisements that linked the murder on the bus to the killing animals for food. I'll never have any respect for them after they did that. In fact they made me want to eat animals just to spite them.
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      HisServant77 Jan 8, 09
      Are you serious? They did that? I remember that story, it's horrible that they used that story in that manner!
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    HisServant77 Jan 8, 09
    I used to be a vegetarian. Nothing wrong with being one. However . . . to actually think that there's something wrong with eating meat and trying to tell others that and everything . . . that's wrong. Peta needs to chill with the whole "eating meat = cruelty to animals, and if you eat meat you are less healthy than vegetarians!" To be honest, it's easier for someone to become malnourished through a vegetarian diet, than it is for a regular balanced diet of meat and non-meat products. When I was a vegetarian, it was that thing that caused me to become anemic.
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      ShadowJ Jan 8, 09
      Indeed, eating meat as part of a balanced lifestyle or going over the average recommended amount won't do anything to you, however if the only thing that you eat is meat and I mean the only thing then yes, you will suffer from severe problems.

      Stupid thing is, body builders and athletes actually eat tons of meat within their diets but they heavily balance it out with other things.

      I'm just waiting for PETA and Jack Thompson to join forces...hell that would be a right barrel of laughs
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        dwg14390 Jan 8, 09
        Don't give them Ideas or Jack Thompson, PETA, Uwe Bolle, and countless others begin to start there own "justice League of International Re+ards"
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    OkamiAlucard Jan 8, 09
    Yet another reason i don't like Fable 2 (don't get me wrong its a good game i played it for 3 weeks before i stopped.) Eating food in Fable 1 meant health except for the Crunchy Chicks and Tofu. In Fable 2 it means a Purity or corruption choice. I'm not going to go on a rant now though. If anyone was going to win this award it should probably go to one of those PETZ!. games.
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    The Omega Jan 8, 09
    PETA is filled with a ton of morons, some of which border on psychotic and dangerous behavior. For this article, it's just stupidity they award it to a game where you can actually go ahead and kill animals. They should give the award to some sports game every year to avoid this
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    Murray3 Jan 8, 09
    Animals kill other animals in nature, there's nothing wrong with that, humans killing animals is also right, as long as it's for A. Food or B. Protection.

    Eating is always related to living, the living eat the living, even several plants eat living things.

    There are many reasons to be a vegetarian, but 'because eating meat is imoral' is wrong, just plain wrong, we have made a few animals extinct by over-hunting them, which isn't right. But we are trying to prevent extinction of some species that we had nothing to do with, which is wrong, if their habitats are changing naturally, we should let those species die, clearly their evolution took them on the wrong path (take that Intelligent Design), just like mammoths.
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    Mr Gray Jan 8, 09
    By chosing Fable, a game that endorses the abusement of animals, simply because the game also endorses (positively) vegan-ism, they've made an exception against the alleged cause they claim to support. With an objective like theirs, there ARE NO EXCEPTIONS. They've proved how asinine their organization is handled, and have, once again, shot themselves in the foot.


    (which begs the question, how many feet do they have? Hooves? Claws?)
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    kik36 Jan 9, 09
    I'm a little bit pissed that vegetarians are killing innocent vegetables. Where the *bleep* are the vegetable's rights PETA?! Oh, doesn't apply when you're hungry, does it???

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