{"id":98997,"date":"2019-08-23T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/08\/random_cooking_mama_cookstar_receives_award_from_peta_for_including_vegetarian_mode"},"modified":"2019-08-23T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T04:30:00","slug":"random-cooking-mama-cookstar-receives-award-from-peta-for-including-vegetarian-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/23\/random-cooking-mama-cookstar-receives-award-from-peta-for-including-vegetarian-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Cooking Mama: Cookstar Receives Award From PETA For Including Vegetarian Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a708984306f7\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a708984306f7\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Cooking Mama\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a708984306f7\/cooking-mama.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a708984306f7\/cooking-mama.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Cooking Mama\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Animal rights organisation PETA normally makes video game headlines when it calls out a particular title for this or that, but this time it&#8217;s rather different.<\/p>\n<p>Cooking Mama &#8211; a series that has been under fire from the animal rights advocate in the past &#8211; has received a &#8220;Proggy Award&#8221; (&#8220;Proggy&#8221; translating to &#8220;progress&#8221;) for adding in a vegetarian mode to the upcoming Switch entry, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/cooking_mama_cookstar\">Cooking Mama: Cookstar<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>PETA singled out the Cooking Mama series in 2008 when it released a parody game raising awareness about animal abuse within the meat industry. Here&#8217;s what the Vice President of the organisation had to say about this mode featured in the new game:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Cooking Mama<\/em>\u2018s \u2018vegetarian mode\u2019 is sure to be a hit with the huge population of gamers who are committed to choosing kindness over cruelty. PETA is honoring Planet Digital Partners for showing other game publishers how to create great games that align with players\u2019 values.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"PETA PROGGY AWARD\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/056640555e4f2\/peta-proggy-award.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/056640555e4f2\/peta-proggy-award.900x.jpg\" alt=\"PETA PROGGY AWARD\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>What are your thoughts about Cooking Mama receiving an award from PETA? Leave a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal rights organisation PETA normally makes video game headlines when it calls out a particular title for this or that, but this time it&#8217;s rather different. Cooking Mama &#8211; a series that has been under fire from the animal rights advocate in the past &#8211; has received a &#8220;Proggy Award&#8221; (&#8220;Proggy&#8221; translating to &#8220;progress&#8221;) for [&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-98997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98997","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=98997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}