PETA wants Nintendo to remove nose ring from Mario Kart Cow character

PETA this week launched a campaign to urge the Japanese game maker to redesign the Cow character “without the nose ring — a painful reminder of the cruelty cows endure in the meat and dairy industries.”

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Remove the nose ring and let Cow race freely — without any painful reminders of the industries that treat animals like profit-making machines,

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Online commenters have pointed out that it’s possible — in the context of the “Mario Kart World” universe — that Cow chose to get the nose ring herself. “How do they know the cow didn’t go to a body piercing place to get it? The damn thing knows how to drive so it’s not completely… ordinary,”

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Chock Full o Nuts said:

PETA Urges Nintendo to Remove ‘Mario Kart World’ Cow’s Nose Ring: ‘It’s-a Mean!’

PETA wants Nintendo to remove the nose ring from Cow, an anthropomorphic, vehicle-driving character in top-selling Switch 2 game 'Mario Kart World.'

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I'm sure they'll get right on that. In doing so, should right all wrongs in the beef industry.

It's a video game character geared toward kids... Do you think they are even aware or care?



I'm all for doing things as ethically as possible when it comes to the meat industry. But this is as dumb as calling for baseball to rename the 'bullpen'.
These things never cross anyones mind except for yours, when you feel the need to come up with some stupid axe to grind, which, in turn, accomplishes absolutely nothing.

How about you take all that donor money and go out to work on real change, and not worry about a character in a video game?

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Craig234 said:

I support it. Would we support a video game where you own black slaves? It's just a game. The idea is, values are in entertainment. They can be normalized or recognized as bad.

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Slartibartfast said:

People wear bull rings as a fashion statement.

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