{"id":94854,"date":"2019-06-09T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/random_peta_makes_woolly_statement_about_sheep_pokemon_wooloo_backlash_ensues"},"modified":"2019-06-09T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T17:35:00","slug":"random-peta-makes-woolly-statement-about-sheep-pokemon-wooloo-backlash-ensues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/09\/random-peta-makes-woolly-statement-about-sheep-pokemon-wooloo-backlash-ensues\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: PETA Makes Woolly Statement About Sheep Pok\u00e9mon Wooloo, Backlash Ensues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47684030cda99\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47684030cda99\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Wooloo Pokemon\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47684030cda99\/wooloo-pokemon.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47684030cda99\/wooloo-pokemon.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Wooloo Pokemon\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>American animal rights organisation PETA is once again using a video game to make a controversial statement. This time the target is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/a><\/strong> and its new sheep pocket monster Wooloo \u2013 which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/brand_new_pokemon_and_legendaries_revealed_for_pokemon_sword_and_shield\">revealed<\/a> to the world during the most recent Pok\u00e9mon Direct presentation.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Wooloo has wool and PETA doesn&#8217;t approve of Wooloo-made sweaters.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"PETA\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6835f0cb98c1a\/peta.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6835f0cb98c1a\/peta.900x.jpg\" alt=\"PETA\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Sure enough, backlash ensued and Pok\u00e9mon fans began to shame PETA for the apparent spread of misinformation about sheep shearing. Animal rights advocates even came to Wooloo&#8217;s defence, explaining how <em>real<\/em> sheep could suffer from heat stroke and illness if their wool wasn&#8217;t clipped on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>PETA has come under fire on a number of occasions over the years for dragging video games into its animal-related campaigns. We&#8217;ve seen easy targets like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/super_meat_boy\">Super Meat Boy<\/a><\/strong> and other times it&#8217;s made use of mascots and games like <strong>Super Mario<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We very much doubt The Pokemon Company and everyone else helping out with Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield would be happy about the cute and fictional sheep Pokemon being used like this, but let us know your feelings with a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American animal rights organisation PETA is once again using a video game to make a controversial statement. This time the target is Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield and its new sheep pocket monster Wooloo \u2013 which was revealed to the world during the most recent Pok\u00e9mon Direct presentation. You see, Wooloo has wool and PETA doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}