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April 8th, 2009, 19:01 GMT · By

PETA Fights to Protect Baby Seals in World of Warcraft

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We aren't living in a perfect world, as it is host to a wide variety of cruelty acts. PETA, or People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, have fought for quite some time against cruelty to animals and have shown on numerous occasions that they aren't afraid to take on video games, for better or for worse.

We recently saw the organization brag about sending a copy of Nintendogs to Activision, in order to prevent the company from showcasing dog killing in its Call of Duty shooter franchise. Now, it seems that, in order to stop real-life cruelty, PETA will organize a virtual protest in one of the most popular online games, World of Warcraft.

That's right, in something that can only be described as mind boggling, the organization urges players to join it in the Howling Fjord zone on the Whisperwind server, in order to protest against four Horde baby seal killers. All of this is a sort of metaphor against Canada, as it is the main supplier of baby seal fur in the world.

Here's the official release from PETA: “The fight against the Canadian seal slaughter has gone digital! That's right, gamers, get ready: This Saturday, WoW players will have the opportunity to combat a team of four Horde seal killers. We need your help to stop them from bashing in the heads of any more seals! Thrall refused to ban the slaughter of seals, despite multiple requests from the Alliance to do so, because Orgrimmar stands to make a large profit from the fur. Activists from across the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor are banding together to put a stop to the atrocious seal slaughter. Anyone who slaughters baby seals for their fur must surely be in service to the evil Lich King.”

The organization has also released a video that shows a few seal hunters being terribly happy that they will be able to kill some baby seals. Watch it and then share with us your thoughts on this very unique kind of protest from the organization.



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Comment #1 by: Canadian Anon on 08 Apr 2009, 22:56 UTC reply to this comment

Wow, Canadians = The Horde and Ottawa = Orgrimmar? AWESOME. I'm going to go gank me some PETA people on my BE DK.

Seriously though, as a Canadian I fully support the seal hunt because as anyone who's lived on the east coast will tell you, seals are among the most annoying and stupid creatures in the ocean. If you have a thriving ecosystem in your local bay/inlet and a few seals get in there, you're royally screwed. They do things like just eat a penguin's feet, leaving the rest of the bird to rot and decimate the local fish population.

Good riddance to those stupid beasts.

Protip: As anyone who plays WoW knows, the Horde are fighting the lich king too. GG PETA. Lern 2 protest.


Comment #2 by: Canadian Anon2 on 11 Apr 2009, 18:42 UTC reply to this comment

Actually that I find annoying is the fact that Peta keeps using old pictures from a sealhunt like 30 years ago to say "LOOK THEY ARE HURTING THE POOR WITTLE SEALS" Most of the seals killed are used completely, not left in the sun to 'rot'

I'd also like to see Peta TRY and stop the native Canadians from Seal hunting...as it is a staple of their lives.

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