It's not just Slowpoke, but Magikarp are also (attempted) to be eaten. Then even in Legends, we see that some entries refer to them being used for clothing. (Bibarrel)
I randomly found the 1st one while I was at my verbally abusive dad's house 5+ years ago and I'm glad other people were upset about this. I'm also glad that I'm not alone in this stupid boat
I think PETA just want to piss people off/trigger them to "go vegan" and what not, but also even tho we can survive on only plants, humans are omnivores, and we are healthier in general if we eat meat and fruits/veggies
“Would Pokemon still love us if they knew what we do to animals?” as if our pets don’t stand under the table and stare into our souls, demanding meat scraps.
The problem with veganism is eating animals is part of nature. You can't claim to have a moral argument if you can only uphold it because you live a privileged life where you aren't a caveman eating any scraps of food you can find.
I played peta games as a kid.... it was scarring They're indeed intended for kids, children play this. It wasn't even links when I played, there where just random animal gore videos popping up while playing. In the middle of the games, most often as "rewards" Children don't understand the supposed message, they just get traumatised. No, I'm not vegetarian.
In Pokémon lore pokeballs not only are comfy, but pokemon WANT to fight with trainers as it is proven it makes them stronger. Soooooo, peta has no idea about Pokémon lore.
Pokemon show up in the wild BECAUSE they want to fight a trainer and test if they can become strong, Pokemon (at least those living nearby human society) actively seek trainers thay can handle them to make them stornger and evolve It's literally Darwinian Evolution in steroids lmao Pokemon can also leave the Pokeball at any time, and msot of them are storng enough to defend themsleves if they are being absued by the trainers
@@cursed-cat9126 And mega evolution only occurs due to really strong bonds between the pokemon and the trainer, meaning the pokemon and the trainer work together, fighting because they actually want to. PETA is so stupid.
I feel like the only reason they fight is to keep their world safe from anything that tries to destroy it. If you didn’t train the Pokemon the Pokemon Earth would be destroyed so :/
fun fact: Those videos peta links as "prizes" weren't always age restricted! I was 7, and there was absolutely no warning on the video at the time, I had nightmares for weeks. Still not vegan tho
Shit is going to happen. You can't stop it. Different countries have different levels or morality as well as different laws on animal welfare. We can't be responsible for another countries laws. The UK tried that with its empire, many people starved to death or were sacrificed.
"What would people do if they got their hands on a real life Pokemon?" Die. We'd just die. 90% of Pokemon would just kill us by existing near us. Hell, most max-tier evolutions, legendaries and mythicals could just delete us because
I think it's great that peta likes team plasma, because they literally just want a pokemon monopoly so they can abuse the pokemon and rule unova. (Oversimplified but the basic plot)
Tbh i think they see themselves as the good team plasma N formed in B2W2 given that Ghetsis is a villain in these "parodies". Basically they saw team plasma in the first black/white, maybe thought "are we the baddies?", then saw neo team plasma and thought that absolved them of all sin.
Remember the moment where their "Starters" (Smogon and Ekans) evolved? They *cried* of joy. And their Pokemons were happy, too. PETA really doesn't know anything about what happens in the games or anime. Bruh.
I find it hilarious how Team Plasma are the good guys in both "games" as Plasma is most likely a jab at PETA as both act pretty much the exact same, both take creatures from humans and say they are "saving them" then proceed to abuse and/or kill said creatures they took
Actually "Team Plasma" is from Pokémon Black & White. They parade around as a Pokémon activist group (think the in-universe version of PETA), but as you dig into their HQ near the end of the game you find out their leader Ghetsis (who wears a coat implied to be made out of the Pokémon that "failed him", for reference) is basically trying to take over the world is basically PokéHitler. The fact PETA painted them as the good guys shows how little they know about their source material.
oh no, they know, peta!ghetsis outright spoils the twist before his fight. though n splits off from ghetsis along with the half of team plasma that actually thought they were an animal rights group, and so n's side (the ones who dress like in bw 1) is an actual pokémon rights group, while ghetsis's faction drops all pretenses and just do the terrorism stuff.
I mentioned this game to my mom and told her about the game linking to the video of animals just being abused, and she said something that actually made me think: kids who are raised with abusive parents are more likely to be abusive themselves to their partner or children, as kids mimic those around them. By showing this video, kids may be inclined to mimic these behaviors. Peta is literally (unintentionally?) raising the next generation of animal abusers
Also,call me unempathetic,but I don't see the problem. Sheep are barely an intelligence level above plants,cows don't feel pain and chickens are assholes. I don't see any reason to dedicate effort to prevent animal cruelty as opposed to illnesses,child abuse,the climate crisis,aging,there's just so many more important things
@@satsujin-shathewitchkingof6185 Um yeah I do see problem with what you say, but I will agree that addressing the meat industry isn’t the main priority right now imo (though addressing climate change would also be addressing the meat industry since a lot of carbon that ends up in the atmosphere is because of deforestation for more land to raise cattle and cows release emissions themselves). However, just because we don’t see animals as intelligent or we see them as mean doesn’t mean we should inflict harsh conditions on them (see the history of wolves in Yellowstone), and pain is only a natural way to keep things alive. I, someone who eats meat and uses animal products and goes to zoos, believes that the meat industry and animal rights in general do need to change, I just find it disgusting that peta is the main voice in this, which ends up silencing the genuine people who actually care. I think it’s fine if people eat animals but the way we go about it currently is not the best.
@@thecatarmy3485 I assure you,there is no evidence cows feels pain,just as there is no evidence plants feel pain. And sheep are so dumb,they cannot muster the creativity to walk around a roadblock. My dad went camping and the sheep that went through that area each day would just stop at the tent,not move,then head back with their flock. Due to this,those sheep just didn't eat for multiple days. Is that a creature that's wrong to exploit? Really?
@@satsujin-shathewitchkingof6185 I I believe that sheep can be smart and won’t literally starve themselves to death because if that was the case they wouldn’t exist. At my local zoo, in their petting zoo section there are “rest areas” for the animals where visitors cannot go. After Covid, the sheep likely figured out that being bothered by a bunch of kids wasn’t worth it so they would stay in their rest areas unless the petting zoo was near empty, which is when they would roam. Cows likely have a higher pain tolerance than people in order to survive, but that doesn’t mean they don’t feel pain at all. They still flick away horseflies from their rumps with their tails without even seeing them, meaning they had to have felt something in order to know to get rid of it. Even if they couldn’t feel pain, that wouldn’t excuse making them stand on top of each other in their own feces their whole lives until death, and again, I eat meat all the time. This conversation isn’t going to get anywhere though, so a reply is only going to lead in circles. This discussion is off topic from my original comment about the effects of kids seeing animal abuse, and seeing as you pointed out you knew your opinion would be controversial I think you’re only looking for an argument. At the end of the day, you’re still going to see me as a goofy animal lover whose been fed lies and I’m still going to see you as someone who thinks animals are open to abuse because of them being “lesser”.
I remember that these Pokémon rip offs scarred me as a child. I was playing pokemon vs McDonald’s I believe on my old computer and when you win a battle, you get a chest. If you click on it, you get a peta video about slaughtering. It horrified me so much, I screamed, cried, and ran to my dad. And he told me to never support these people. So I don’t. Fuck peta!
I think it’s so funny that it’s Team Plasma in this game because that’s literally just the Pokémon version of PETA within the Pokémon universe, and they’re an *evil team.*
Actually, Pokemon get eaten all the time, though I think Nintendo is specfically trying to move away from that image, but i distinctly remember a prepared magikarp sushi dish.
I love how theyre like "in the pokemon world, the pokemon are abused and tortured and killed" like theres supposed to be some relation to real life animals, but the problem is.... the pokemon in the pokemon are completely fine first of all and second of all if anyone had to worry about death it would be the humans. Because if the pokemon just decided to end humanity they could easily.
And also pokemon WANT to fight to prove that they are strong and not even that, the whole z move and mega evolution thing is that the trainer and the pokemon need a strong bond to use them
i actually played black and blue as a kid, and the message flew right over my head. i enjoyed playing it just fine, and honestly i partially blame it for my gore fascination (alongside invader zim). i am not vegetarian, and i still love eating meat. one thing i can't stop laughing over is that team plasma is literally the pokemon universe equivalent of peta, and GHETSIS IS A HIGH RANKING MEMBER OF TEAM PLASMA.
That's one thing peta did get right was that people in pokemon they actually do eat pokemon, even James was thinking about cooking up his magikarp in the earlier anime, one example I know is how slowpoke tails were one of the foods in the game
@@trueiswrong yeah people just take offense so easily that they feel it necessary to just crap on anything people enjoy and trying to push their own beliefs onto it
actually slowpokes regenerate their tails and feel no pain in them so the first mention of pokemon being eaten did not even require to injure the pokemon
@@ashadeofblue6815 On top of that, the whole scenario was first presented to the player in Pokemon gold and silver as a BAD thing. Team rocket went to the slowpoke well to cut off as many slowpoke tails as they could to sell them for a high price and finance their schemes. Basically the whole theme of slowpoke tails is animal exploitation and cruelty for money, which reflects reality and helps in making the player grow more sympathetic towards Pokemon
Pokemon are like irl animals and will hunt other pokemon for food.the trainers who catch pokemon are actually doing them a big favor because the wild can be filled with alot of dreadful stuff and most if not all trainers treat thier pokemon with respect and kindness
@@potatojohnny3898 yeah even in the magikarp mobile game it's obvious because if the magikarp jumps too high it gets snatched by a pidgey and then thr trainer walks back alone looking sad
Masuda: “It sure would be interesting if Pokéballs existed in real life, and we haven’t imagined that. But, in terms of what’s inside of the Pokéball, it’s a space that’s incredibly comfortable for Pokémon.”
PETA: "Pokemon encourages animal abuse" Literally any pokemon that evolves through any kind of friendship, or any other stats that need caring and love of a trainer: *distant laughing*
They DO eat pokemon, in one episode of the original series of pokemon, professor oak is caught eating someone's krabby, pretty much any other times are pokedex entries talking about kids eating applins and appletuns.
also there's a book (in Platinum I think) where they talk about eating fish pokemon and throwing their bones back into the water, making them LITERALLY GET REBORN?!?
For those who don't know before youtube didn't required you to really verify being over 18(and it was not as current as now) on UA-cam and there was less trigger warning so basically around 2010 PETA just traumatised a bunch of kids
I played black/blue when I was 10 and I've always had a really bad fear of blood. It was nightmare fuel and I didn't touch the computer for days, spending most of the time playing Soul Silver on the ds. Shocking kids doesn't exactly work, you'll just get them to hate the specific content and, later in life, to dislike its producer. Edit: right, I almost forgot. My diet includes little to no vegetables because I litterally can't bring myself to eat the majority of them, with the only exeptions being uncooked carrots and fennels, and omelette with spinach or zucchini. I will get sick if I eat anything else, last time I tried I vomited, so going vegan for me is unfeasible.
I was so insulted when I fought Ash, that I just let him beat my Pokémon because he deserves better. Then PETA took notice of this and froze my game before my last Pokémon died.
No, I still had some health left and I had plenty of moves as well. The game just didn’t let me click anything. And no it didn’t crash because I reloaded, played through it, started letting Ash kick me in the teeth, and it did it again.
Actually, humans eating pokemon is a very common topic in the Pokémon franchise even some Pokédex entries talk about how good some Pokémon taste, also in sword and shield you can cook food and some of the food you can make include slowpoke tails, and krabbys and kinglers.
And even then, frequently in the show and in sword and shield, we can frequently see all humans just eat non meat foods. Such as eggs or stew. So really, Peta kinda just smacked themselves in the face.
When I was a kid, I always assumed in the pokemon world that there would be non-pokemon type animals for the humans to eat, even if they did ocassionly eat pokemon ( in accordance to the pokedex entries i.e slowpoke tails, magikarp, farfetche'd to name a few). But as an adult with my understanding of the animal kingdom, of course it makes sense that pokemon would be a food source in many places and not just for the humans in the world either, but other pokemon. Though I still do hold onto the belief that there are non-pokemon animals in the world, but that's just a personal head canon now. lol.
Out of all things, I wanna nitpick Jigglypuff's design in these games because I know nobody else is gonna talk about it. There's a bleeding bite mark. ON THEIR HAIR. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think hair has blood a in it. And I'm also pretty sure that the teeth would just go through the hair without leaving a mark because hair is so thin that it's nearly impossible to hit as hard as a bite. Is Jigglypuff's hair actually hair? Or is it an extra arm or something?
The most unintentionally funny part about this game is that some of the footage of cows being 'tortured' is actually footage of people giving the cows medical care.
Sounds like this group wouldn't realize that Arceus destroyed the humans that actually did animal abuse (citation required, current citation unreliable)
@@daiymohermitaurenjoyer9160 sheep wool shearing is needed so that they dont have to carry to much weight and if not done for a long time it will cause some damage to the sheep skin when sheered Hope that helps
@@fencecreature No, pokemon get eaten. Some pokemon the dex referred to as tasty and you even can include pokemon body parts in the curry in sword and shield (kingler and slowpoke being 2 in the curry dex I can think of).
@@testerwulf3357 I'm pretty sure most of those entries are talking about by-products, like an applun's apple (the worm is the only part that's a Pokemon), or juice that's been fermented in a shuckle's holes.
Magikarp is actually shown to be pretty bad eating. Mostly big heavy bones and thick, hard scales without much meat or fat. Krabby, however, is quite edible as are many others.
@@jordon8658 that’s actually what they’re going for. They think that the bigger the reaction, the more people are on their side. Especially with kids, who are more impressionable and more likely to join their side than adults. Many people agree with their points, but then decide not to ever do anything PETA says out of spite towards their tone-deafness and lack of basic decency. Nobody wants to be on the same side as PETA. They all suck.
What the actual hell. Who ever thought this was a good idea like wtf. No one wants to see that. I can't exactly be considered a child anymore but I'm pretty sure that would leave me traumatized for life no matter my age. That must be horrifying. I hope Peta get sued or something because of all the traumatized children who require therapy after seeing that.
I look at Pokémon battles as either boxing, martial arts, or wrestling except with elemental magic. Pokémon are shown to actually enjoy battling each other and after they faint they’re trainers immediately care for them afterwards. Whenever my Pokémon lost a sliver of HP I’d either immediately use potions or run all the way to the nearest Pokémon center.
I'll be honest, the whole idea of pokemon being captured at forced into dog fighting as a sport is kinda messed up. Though pokemon are able to literally disobey you if you pissed them off.
Pokémon aren’t exclusively used for battling one another. They can be used as either pets or companions, in beauty contests, or can assist us in construction, transportation, agriculture, medicine, etc.
if real world terms were being looked at then competitive pokemon players would be scum since they do mass selective breeding, dog fights and forced competitions for unconsenting animals. but thats the thing, its not real world, its fiction. if the same logic peta does for pokemon was used then all first person shooter companies and their players are war supporters who are into genocide even though thats pure nonsense. hence why we need to learn the distinction between reality and fiction.
@@anafu-sankanashi8933 it's not really forced because what's really stopping the Pokemon from getting out of there pokeballs, killing/knocking out there trainers and running away in order to blend in with other wild pokemon?
I mean Slowpoke Tails are a delicacy throughout the world of pokemon, but since Slowpokes are like lizards they just grow their tail back, plus it doesn't harm them in anyway as they never notice, but also literally, pokemon kill other pokemon like actual real life predators and pray, so Peta needs to do more research
it would be so fucking funny if there was a review of this game where the person reviews it at face value "honestly the game is a 1/10, the game was a minute long, the graphics are horrible, the diologe is forced and unatural, the story was conveluted, the blood estetic was cheese. overall peta put minimal effort into this and it shows" just compleatly overlooks the message
@@hello.9958 It's just some animal(pokemon as that what they call the animals) protection so that slowpokes aren't abused and are not actually harmed(if they do feel pain)
When I was a kid (Very little kid) me and a group from the school went to play some games on one's computer, the games where: - Super Smash Flash (Normal) - Cooking Mama (That freaking Peta version) - This pokemon games We thought the slaughter games where from people who hates animals, and years later I just found out they came from people who is supposed to care for the animals... I don't know what to think about this, Peta's just making a big bunch of bullcrap with all that anti-animal abuse games in my opinion
I remember playing twisted cooking mana on Y8 and I thought it's just s parody made by some dude on the internet. I dont even what the vegan is back then
I'm glad I never played these when I was a kid! Mostly because my tablet just couldn't give me out an English PETA site, basing on request in russian. But when I first saw PETA's Cooking mama speedrun in internet (searched for a normal cooking mama speedrun), I thought it was a crappy horror makeover.
When I was a kid ( I'm currently 19) I played these games and was sent to those animal abuse videos at every turn. At the time no warning or anything, was horrifying.
damn. yeah, i remember when i was 7 or 8 playing that disgusting cooking mama ripoff and seeing a fucking animated turkey get dissected brutally. thanks peta.
My fave pokemon theory - pokemon actually want to help you!! It was a developed thing between most pokemon as they were worried that humans would get hurt when traversing trails and woods. They decided to join them as traveling partners! Also I think I heard that it was cannon that people ate magicarp sashimi.
Ironic how peta relised that game in the gen 5 era Gen 5 the game in Wich an evil team tries to convince everyone that pokemon don't want to be captured but not because they care about them but because they want to be the only one how Owen pokemon so they can rule over the world Just like peta wants people to believe them even tho they kill 90% of the Animals they "rescue" and just like team plasma(yup the same name has the devs lmao this proofs they didn't even played the game) why do they do that? Money power and fame
I won't be surprised if they got inspiration from PETA to make team plasma or that PETA thought that Nintendo was mocking/parodying them with team plasma
Pokémon Black and Blue: (exists) Nintendo: What a great way to represent our brand's image. The kids will love this! Every other Pokémon fangame: (exists) Nintendo: KILL IT WITH FIRE
I think it's more so a 'threat' thing. Everyone knows that the Peta game is crap and isn't going to threaten their sales. Peta is that low that they don't care.
Why not ask the same about Mc.Donalds? Ita because PETA has funding, and layers. Any fan project doesn't. Also fan projects use direct assets, and even when transformed is still directly breaking the intellectual properties once you make that project a public thing.
Does the game kill it with fire have to do anything with this? (And yes there is a literal game called kill it with fire where you kill spiders with fire another weapons)
Literally one of the lore bits in DPPt is that people used to kill and eat Pokemon but they drove Pokemon to near-extinction and eventually they gave up that way of life, it's sort of told through a lil folktale about a boy who finds a sword and kills pokemon with abandon before being greeted by an unknown beast and feeling so sorry for his actions he gives up the sword forever
what comics did they hand out exactly? I can tell that this will be interesting due to them handing out "unhappy meals" that contained a bloody chicken toy )if i recalll correctly).
@@josephkeen7224 The two most infamous are "Your Mommy Kills Animals" and "Your Daddy Kills Animals" which had very graphic covers depicting what the titles imply.
PETA: grrrr pokemon is animal abuse!!! also pokemon: added a bonding feature that gives you bonus effects while battling the higher the friendship you have with the Pokémon, and has a move called “return”, which does more power according to the amount of friendship you have with the Pokémon using it. (Edit: made this longer lol)
4:24 Fun fact: In the anime you’ll actually occasionally see the characters eating fried magicarp so by technical definition it would be true but it’s obviously way over exaggerated lol
So did peta forget that wild Pokémon do things like this?: “It sucks bodily fluids out of its prey. The leftover meat sinks to the seafloor, where it becomes food for other Pokémon.” And: “It enwraps its prey in its hairlike arms. It sings joyfully as it observes the suffering of its prey.”
Many people seem to think that without humans, nature would be some kind of paradise, with every creature living happily and without suffering. I guess they just didn't pay attention in their biology classes, otherwise they would know what terrible things organisms can do to survive or gain some sort of advantage.
I kinda like the design of evil Ash as some kind of 'animal tamer' from the circus. (at least I assume that's the look they were going for) all the blood is unnecessary though. If you want to get the message across to children, I think sad faces and crying would do better than all the gore
@@boopbeep7196 yeah in the first games/anime it seems like they werent really sure if they wanted this to be a fantasy world completely separate from ours or take place in our world except with pokemon. hence why the Mew/Mewtwo subplot mentions South America and Lt. Surge is canonically referred to as being from the US
@@yep9462 It's theorized that they wanted it to be all Pokémon in the first place, only they didn't have much equivalents for real world animals at first, so they used placeholders of sorts.
9:46 “kids today have never even heard of him” that aged well, considering that now, grimace is sometimes the only thing spouting out of these kids mouths
Actually in the first pokemon show was said that people would eat Farfetch'd and now they're endangered but not anymore luckily but they do eat krabby and slowpoke tail
@@Equinox_5 Eh, Most of the important Lore information in there is already in the games (The Thing about Farfetch is mentioned in the Pokedex) and While there are some really Good Episodes and Arcs, 80% is just Boring Filler
I own farm animals, and let me just say, they are tasty, and unlike PETA, we don't brutally murder them, well we do kill them, but in the most painless way possible, it disturbs us as much as it disturbs others seeing animals in pain, so it helps to just know how to peacefully kill them, so they have there most peaceful life away from fear, and full of joy all the way to the end. we aren't savages hunting for food as it's our only choice of survival.
Exactly. We breed sheep, some we will sell away fat for meat but majority of the ones that are strong get kept for wool and breeding. They live excellent lives here with potentially thousands being spent on medicines needed even if they only have a 50/50 chance. Same with horses, when it's time to put them down whether it's from illness or whatever, the vet comes out and gives them the jab to put them to sleep. They don't get shot point blank in the head. Everything is done as humanely as possible.
But peacefully killing animals is a bit of a double edge sword you can’t use anything like drugs because that would get into the meat so the question is how do you do it?
@@Kat-mu8wq The reason PETA thinks this way because they’re actual demons and monsters sent from hell either that or they’re just really really really REALLY fucking stupid
@@Choujifangirl honestly depends on the animal, for the most part we want them to pass out so we just hang them upside down and let the blood rush do the work, but the killing is different for each, the one I know best are birds because all you need to do is cut their throats and blood let, they don’t feel pain from it and it gets the blood out quickly. Just remember that it’s a skill that takes practice and it’s better to pay butcher to do it since they have a lot more experience at the job
i feel like peta should vouch for laws against animal cruelty in meat production places over getting them trying to be vegan, because a lot more people are going to agree with laws against animal cruelty. No one really wants them to be hurt, even if we do eat em.
@@oddballjake229 exactly 👍 honestly it's just the industry [mostly the ones in less rural areas] that're horrible, like even outside of like animal cruelty it's just poor business practice to treat livestock poorly as it results in a lower quality product and also _they should pay their fucking staff_
@@oddballjake229 I mean.. it still sort of is, maybe less so but, hm. On that note I do eat meat, but I mean.. they have a point, there's not really many arguments against them outside of cost of food n stuff, I'm just too weak to get off of it I guess, too much of a craving
@@vicious_vixel yeah and probably better living conditions. Plus chickens are cool for people who aren't NT, so it'd probably do the world some good to have like a chicken volunteer program or something of the sorts.
So PETA over here completely ignoring that Pokémon overtime started to come out of tall grass to trainers because THEY want to fight with the trainer to become stronger. The Pokémon are caught because they want to fight with trainers and become stronger
How on earth do these people not get in trouble not just for exposing children to graphic content, but also on terms of extreme copyright infringement?
11:45 also the pokeballs canonically are suited for the pokemon that lives in them (so like a Snorlax might have a field with easy to access food and a comfy spot to lay down)
10:37 It sounds like that one AU where everything went *really* not according to plan. (Like, you know... AU where the plot of a lighthearted project took a sinister or horror twist. For example, a character died or a nuke went off causing an apocalypse)
I remember Pokémon Black and Blue, I didn’t play it as a kid but I knew about it and thought it was made by some edgelords. Then I found out recently it was made by FRICKING PETA??? LMAOO
I imagine the normal balls are just from the inside a big room with a cushion on the bottom for the pokemon to sleep But the luxury balls have like VR so the pokemon can just vibe
I remember playing these when I was a kid and being angry at these games. How dare they ruin the wholesomeness of Pokemon! Also yes, some Pokemon are eaten in the canon, like a Magikarp. But they treat if the same way as eating animals in the real world. Pretty much every Pokemon will eat another Pokemon in their lives. They're all omnivores.
We also can't forget about that one episode in the original season where Ash was freezing alive and had them all in their balls to protect them... and they VOLUNTARILY come out of their balls and group hug, running the risk of every single one of them dying. Yeah... totally can't get along. Also, we're talking about a series where you have a monster ghost that kidnaps children... maybe should be more focused on that than the idea of MONSTERS fighting each other. Don't see PETA going after the Godzilla franchise, nor will they ever because "Oh, well that's unrealistic"... so is Pokemon. When have you ever seen something made out of literal fire, or a phoenix, or a giant stone dragon?
"it teaches you to love and respect all pokemon" yeah ok bud tell that to the ditto in the daycare ngl he might be having either his best or his worst life in there
I Honestly don’t think ditto has any brains And I’m pretty sure Pokémon are happy mating with either their own species or a ditto because I’m not sure if they can tell the difference
I've always assumed that in the Pokemon world, Humans along with the meat eating Pokemon kill and eat non-sentient animals that never appear onscreen as the show is about Pokemon and Humans, not the non-sentient normal animals. Therefore, these PETA games are completely inaccurate in my mind.
They used to have real animals in the old episodes of the anime since they only had the first 151 to go with. They changed it later to only include humans and Pokémon exclusively. Of course, though, this is only the anime canon.
There are only 2 pokemon moves that i can think of regarding love/hate in pokemon. Those being return and frustration. Return does more damage the more your pokemon loves you Frustration does more damage the more you pokemon hates you
Some Pokémon are eaten. Slowpoke tails are a good example. There's even a cooking ingredient in Sword and Shield that is, again, a Slowpoke's tail. However, the Slowpoke hardly ever notices and they grow back fast. According to one of the handbooks, "If a Slowpoke's tail breaks off as it goes about its business, it probably won't even notice, and a new one will grow in quickly. The discarded tail can be dried for use in cooking." Some of Basculin's dex entries state that they used to be commonly eaten, and Sword and Shield's entries even state that they taste different depending on if they're a red-striped or blue-striped Basculin. Red-striped Basculin's Shield entry states, "In the past, it often appeared on the dinner table. The meat of red-striped Basculin is on the fatty side, and it's a lot more popular with the youth." Blue-striped Basculin's Sword entry states, "Blue-striped Basculin used to be a common food source. They apparently have an inoffensive, light flavor." Alcremie's Sword entry hints that it may use some of its body in food it gives to people it likes, saying, "When it trusts a Trainer, I will treat them to berries it's decorated with cream." I say hinted because it's never outwardly stated that it uses cream from its own body, but it's likely the case. Appletun's Shield entry mentions that children used to eat the skin on its back. However, it never states whether or not this harms the Appletun, so take that how you will. There are a lot more examples, but those are some key ones that are talked about a lot in the Pokédexes of the games they appear in.
4:25 Doing a quickk google search you get this: Simply put, it is a fact that people eat Pokémon. In the original television show, Farfetch'd, a duck-like Pokémon, was hunted to near extinction because of its delicious taste, similar to the blue fin tuna today.
There is so much about these Pokémon games that show that PETA doesn’t know jack shit about Pokémon First is the move Return,Return increases in power when the Pokémon that uses it has a higher happiness Second is that,in newer games Pokémon do stuff to make their trainers proud because of their great bond,such as higher critical hit ratios,removing crippling status conditions,dodging attacks and surviving on low health Finally,some Pokémon evolve by friendship,Pichu to Pikachu,Riolu to Lucario,Eevee to Espeon,Umbreon and Sylveon,Golbat to Crobat and more
The newer games only push the "be nice to your Pokémon" message even harder with the affection mechanic and pokemon amie and even the older games had Return as one of the best attacks in the game which is powered by how much your Pokémon likes you while Frustration which is powered by the opposite is next to useless because it's not ideal at all to use.
the art/animations actually look kinda cool (except grimace) if you ignore the super exaggerated gore and propaganda and some of the dialogue is unintentionally funny
It's actually kind of funny, because Legends Of Arceus almost feels like it's answering all of Peta's criticism. Like, there's a whole bit where you're trying to convince the people that poke balls are ethical and kind actually. The game centers around catching and studying Pokémon, and doing so to create a world where humans and Pokémon can coexist. Cuz, like, people definitely get hunted and eaten by pokemon. Not out right, but it does reference it.
@@JobiMorkos Arceus has dialogue of where it goes both ways. Pokemon are monsters, and were monsters. In the modern era games, it's a lot rarer, and people have tamed Pokemon to protect themselves. It is canon that "blacking out" is a family friendly alternative that other people don't always have the luxury of. Pokemon are stated to be dangerous in almost every game. Just a danger that you can train and befriend to minimize.
4:30 Yeah, actually, "Its body is covered in sweet nectar, and the skin on its back is especially yummy. Children used to have it as a snack." -Shield pokedex entry for Appletun.
technically slowpoke tails are eaten but (according to the pokedex) the slowpoke barely notices and it grows back relatively quickly
Bonus: for the sun/moon demo there's a mission where you actually stop a slowpoke smuggler from taking slowpokes.
It's not just Slowpoke, but Magikarp are also (attempted) to be eaten. Then even in Legends, we see that some entries refer to them being used for clothing. (Bibarrel)
@@rinyagami2981 there also was this quest where you stop team rocket from doing the same thing in g/s/c
Slowpoke tail is actually a cooking item in Pokémon sword and shield.
thats what I was gonna say
I watched people play these games as a kid and i was horrified, years later to just find out it was PETA for being shitheads
I randomly found the 1st one while I was at my verbally abusive dad's house 5+ years ago and I'm glad other people were upset about this. I'm also glad that I'm not alone in this stupid boat
PETA is filled with liars anyways, as far as I'm concerned milk doesn't cause mental disabilities
“Is your child autistic? Milk is why”
I'm on the autism spectrum and I got pissed off when I saw that add after it was a thing
I think PETA just want to piss people off/trigger them to "go vegan" and what not, but also even tho we can survive on only plants, humans are omnivores, and we are healthier in general if we eat meat and fruits/veggies
“Would Pokemon still love us if they knew what we do to animals?” as if our pets don’t stand under the table and stare into our souls, demanding meat scraps.
pokemon fight and sometimes eat each other 🤷♀
also animals exist in the pokemon universe 😭😭
The problem with veganism is eating animals is part of nature. You can't claim to have a moral argument if you can only uphold it because you live a privileged life where you aren't a caveman eating any scraps of food you can find.
I played peta games as a kid.... it was scarring
They're indeed intended for kids, children play this.
It wasn't even links when I played, there where just random animal gore videos popping up while playing. In the middle of the games, most often as "rewards"
Children don't understand the supposed message, they just get traumatised.
No, I'm not vegetarian.
That reminds me of the the first and last peta game I ever played it was a Thanksgiving cooking mama parody
@@akuma7578 OH MY GAWD SAME. I was terrified for years of cooking mama, cuz I thought it was the real one :,)
They think that kids who play will think "Oh this is bad let's go vegan!"
What kids really think: um wtf
@@sammyplayzanimations5113 lmao until a year ago i thought it was
As a kid, I was traumatized for 1 year straight until I go seek a therapist
In Pokémon lore pokeballs not only are comfy, but pokemon WANT to fight with trainers as it is proven it makes them stronger.
Soooooo, peta has no idea about Pokémon lore.
Pokemon show up in the wild BECAUSE they want to fight a trainer and test if they can become strong, Pokemon (at least those living nearby human society) actively seek trainers thay can handle them to make them stornger and evolve
It's literally Darwinian Evolution in steroids lmao
Pokemon can also leave the Pokeball at any time, and msot of them are storng enough to defend themsleves if they are being absued by the trainers
@@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard Thats what I ment
Weren't Z moves a thing where you use special attacks WITH your pokemon? So if Pokemon didn't wanna fight then why would that even be a thing 😂
@@cursed-cat9126 And mega evolution only occurs due to really strong bonds between the pokemon and the trainer, meaning the pokemon and the trainer work together, fighting because they actually want to. PETA is so stupid.
I feel like the only reason they fight is to keep their world safe from anything that tries to destroy it. If you didn’t train the Pokemon the Pokemon Earth would be destroyed so :/
fun fact: Those videos peta links as "prizes" weren't always age restricted!
I was 7, and there was absolutely no warning on the video at the time, I had nightmares for weeks. Still not vegan tho
Shit is going to happen. You can't stop it. Different countries have different levels or morality as well as different laws on animal welfare. We can't be responsible for another countries laws. The UK tried that with its empire, many people starved to death or were sacrificed.
The prize is ten years of therapy
Peta on their way to not only hurt animals but also hurt children too xd
"What would people do if they got their hands on a real life Pokemon?"
Die. We'd just die. 90% of Pokemon would just kill us by existing near us.
Hell, most max-tier evolutions, legendaries and mythicals could just delete us because
@Zenin Guém Maybe a single Joltick
@Zenin Guém I think Magikarp would have problems killing someone too.
@@Mandarinoooooo I mean they can jump over mountains so…
Ikr
@@AshvinRanjan Oh.
I think it's great that peta likes team plasma, because they literally just want a pokemon monopoly so they can abuse the pokemon and rule unova. (Oversimplified but the basic plot)
Its like they didn't actually play Black and White... or even read it's Wikipedia article.
But I'm sure that not the case. Lol. (Sarcasm btw.)
@@Superluigi881 Just realized you used a tone indicator without actually using a tone indicator
Yeah it's like .... almost peta being plasma is perfect for them :)
It's an oversimplification of events, but yeah
Tbh i think they see themselves as the good team plasma N formed in B2W2 given that Ghetsis is a villain in these "parodies". Basically they saw team plasma in the first black/white, maybe thought "are we the baddies?", then saw neo team plasma and thought that absolved them of all sin.
Even the "Bad guys" mainly Jessie and James are wholesome with their pokemon.
Hell my boy James has the most adorable moments with his pokemon
They even release some of their pokemon to be free
Also James doesn't use pokeballs, his Pokémon willingly follow him. It's adorable.
@@Unae_csmr james is a true gentleman
Remember the moment where their "Starters" (Smogon and Ekans) evolved? They *cried* of joy. And their Pokemons were happy, too. PETA really doesn't know anything about what happens in the games or anime. Bruh.
@@Unae_csmrthis is why he is the best character
I find it hilarious how Team Plasma are the good guys in both "games" as Plasma is most likely a jab at PETA as both act pretty much the exact same, both take creatures from humans and say they are "saving them" then proceed to abuse and/or kill said creatures they took
what
@@mugofbricks PETA abuses their animals in custody, to "raise awareness"
they realized itd be friendly fire if they made team plasma the bad guys
@@mugofbricks Generation 5 is crazy
how accurate
Actually "Team Plasma" is from Pokémon Black & White.
They parade around as a Pokémon activist group (think the in-universe version of PETA), but as you dig into their HQ near the end of the game you find out their leader Ghetsis (who wears a coat implied to be made out of the Pokémon that "failed him", for reference) is basically trying to take over the world is basically PokéHitler.
The fact PETA painted them as the good guys shows how little they know about their source material.
That! Or exactly this is What they want.
Peta is nazi confirned
Team Plasma is the superior PETA.
oh no, they know, peta!ghetsis outright spoils the twist before his fight. though n splits off from ghetsis along with the half of team plasma that actually thought they were an animal rights group, and so n's side (the ones who dress like in bw 1) is an actual pokémon rights group, while ghetsis's faction drops all pretenses and just do the terrorism stuff.
Source?PULLED IT OUT THEIR A-
I mentioned this game to my mom and told her about the game linking to the video of animals just being abused, and she said something that actually made me think: kids who are raised with abusive parents are more likely to be abusive themselves to their partner or children, as kids mimic those around them. By showing this video, kids may be inclined to mimic these behaviors. Peta is literally (unintentionally?) raising the next generation of animal abusers
Also,call me unempathetic,but I don't see the problem. Sheep are barely an intelligence level above plants,cows don't feel pain and chickens are assholes. I don't see any reason to dedicate effort to prevent animal cruelty as opposed to illnesses,child abuse,the climate crisis,aging,there's just so many more important things
@@satsujin-shathewitchkingof6185
Um yeah I do see problem with what you say, but I will agree that addressing the meat industry isn’t the main priority right now imo (though addressing climate change would also be addressing the meat industry since a lot of carbon that ends up in the atmosphere is because of deforestation for more land to raise cattle and cows release emissions themselves). However, just because we don’t see animals as intelligent or we see them as mean doesn’t mean we should inflict harsh conditions on them (see the history of wolves in Yellowstone), and pain is only a natural way to keep things alive. I, someone who eats meat and uses animal products and goes to zoos, believes that the meat industry and animal rights in general do need to change, I just find it disgusting that peta is the main voice in this, which ends up silencing the genuine people who actually care. I think it’s fine if people eat animals but the way we go about it currently is not the best.
@@thecatarmy3485 I assure you,there is no evidence cows feels pain,just as there is no evidence plants feel pain. And sheep are so dumb,they cannot muster the creativity to walk around a roadblock. My dad went camping and the sheep that went through that area each day would just stop at the tent,not move,then head back with their flock. Due to this,those sheep just didn't eat for multiple days. Is that a creature that's wrong to exploit? Really?
@@satsujin-shathewitchkingof6185 I I believe that sheep can be smart and won’t literally starve themselves to death because if that was the case they wouldn’t exist. At my local zoo, in their petting zoo section there are “rest areas” for the animals where visitors cannot go. After Covid, the sheep likely figured out that being bothered by a bunch of kids wasn’t worth it so they would stay in their rest areas unless the petting zoo was near empty, which is when they would roam.
Cows likely have a higher pain tolerance than people in order to survive, but that doesn’t mean they don’t feel pain at all. They still flick away horseflies from their rumps with their tails without even seeing them, meaning they had to have felt something in order to know to get rid of it. Even if they couldn’t feel pain, that wouldn’t excuse making them stand on top of each other in their own feces their whole lives until death, and again, I eat meat all the time.
This conversation isn’t going to get anywhere though, so a reply is only going to lead in circles. This discussion is off topic from my original comment about the effects of kids seeing animal abuse, and seeing as you pointed out you knew your opinion would be controversial I think you’re only looking for an argument. At the end of the day, you’re still going to see me as a goofy animal lover whose been fed lies and I’m still going to see you as someone who thinks animals are open to abuse because of them being “lesser”.
I remember that these Pokémon rip offs scarred me as a child. I was playing pokemon vs McDonald’s I believe on my old computer and when you win a battle, you get a chest. If you click on it, you get a peta video about slaughtering. It horrified me so much, I screamed, cried, and ran to my dad. And he told me to never support these people. So I don’t. Fuck peta!
Based dad
Give this dad an award
your dad is a chad
Same here, only i watched with a smile
Good dad.
PETA won't stop me from making the mother of all omelettes
They can't make you fret over every egg
Holy shit it’s Senator Armstrong
@@jamietheshaymin9290 Indeed, it is me. Senator Armstrong. Here because PETA has stolen my eggs in the name of oppressed mcnuggets.
lets stop them #freeArmstrongsEggs
You have no vegetables, just like all the rest.
I think it’s so funny that it’s Team Plasma in this game because that’s literally just the Pokémon version of PETA within the Pokémon universe, and they’re an *evil team.*
it is funny cos they are essentially team plasma 🤣
Plus, also team plasma a bunch of massive hypocrites Who pretty much want people to stop catching Pokémon so they could steal them all.
Actually, Pokemon get eaten all the time, though I think Nintendo is specfically trying to move away from that image, but i distinctly remember a prepared magikarp sushi dish.
And slowpoke tails
Anyways, magikarp tastes really gud
@@Random64 i heard fried kyogre is all the rage these days, a real exotic fish
@@Basilica_1 i will try it
@@Random64 Bro, how did you prepare the magikarp? I tried it myself but ended up waking at the pokécenter somehow, I think I got sick.
I love how theyre like "in the pokemon world, the pokemon are abused and tortured and killed" like theres supposed to be some relation to real life animals, but the problem is.... the pokemon in the pokemon are completely fine first of all and second of all if anyone had to worry about death it would be the humans. Because if the pokemon just decided to end humanity they could easily.
And also pokemon WANT to fight to prove that they are strong and not even that, the whole z move and mega evolution thing is that the trainer and the pokemon need a strong bond to use them
lavender town: am i a joke to you and that white hand on your shoulder?
there is literally a pokemon who swipes kids away in the air
@@user-mo8li Exactly, we're just fighting back!
Yveltal. Just. Yveltal
i actually played black and blue as a kid, and the message flew right over my head. i enjoyed playing it just fine, and honestly i partially blame it for my gore fascination (alongside invader zim). i am not vegetarian, and i still love eating meat.
one thing i can't stop laughing over is that team plasma is literally the pokemon universe equivalent of peta, and GHETSIS IS A HIGH RANKING MEMBER OF TEAM PLASMA.
That's one thing peta did get right was that people in pokemon they actually do eat pokemon, even James was thinking about cooking up his magikarp in the earlier anime, one example I know is how slowpoke tails were one of the foods in the game
@@trueiswrong yeah people just take offense so easily that they feel it necessary to just crap on anything people enjoy and trying to push their own beliefs onto it
actually slowpokes regenerate their tails and feel no pain in them so the first mention of pokemon being eaten did not even require to injure the pokemon
@@ashadeofblue6815 On top of that, the whole scenario was first presented to the player in Pokemon gold and silver as a BAD thing. Team rocket went to the slowpoke well to cut off as many slowpoke tails as they could to sell them for a high price and finance their schemes.
Basically the whole theme of slowpoke tails is animal exploitation and cruelty for money, which reflects reality and helps in making the player grow more sympathetic towards Pokemon
Pokemon are like irl animals and will hunt other pokemon for food.the trainers who catch pokemon are actually doing them a big favor because the wild can be filled with alot of dreadful stuff and most if not all trainers treat thier pokemon with respect and kindness
@@potatojohnny3898 yeah even in the magikarp mobile game it's obvious because if the magikarp jumps too high it gets snatched by a pidgey and then thr trainer walks back alone looking sad
Masuda: “It sure would be interesting if Pokéballs existed in real life, and we haven’t imagined that. But, in terms of what’s inside of the Pokéball, it’s a space that’s incredibly comfortable for Pokémon.”
yeah. if it's canon that pokeballs are comfortable then it's not that bad.
@@robocatssj3theofficial luxury balls exist, so i imagine that there probably is some kind of mini space in there
Pokéball hammer space
PETA: “Pokemon encourages animal abuse”
Pokemon: *THERES A METHOD OF EVOLUTION CALLED HAPPINESS*
(Edit: 895 likes? Y’all bananas 🤘🤟🫶)
Case and point: Sylveon
@@scruffmaster0185another vapor-
*distant choking*
PETA: "Pokemon encourages animal abuse"
Literally any pokemon that evolves through any kind of friendship, or any other stats that need caring and love of a trainer: *distant laughing*
@@scruffmaster0185 lopunny
@@pspauloplayz4295 Pichu
They DO eat pokemon, in one episode of the original series of pokemon, professor oak is caught eating someone's krabby, pretty much any other times are pokedex entries talking about kids eating applins and appletuns.
Don't forget slow-poke tails!
Also the curry in s+s use dried Slowpoke tails i think
@@Primrose525 oh frick sorry didn't see that somehow.
also there's a book (in Platinum I think) where they talk about eating fish pokemon and throwing their bones back into the water, making them LITERALLY GET REBORN?!?
@@green_pikmin wait what
For those who don't know before youtube didn't required you to really verify being over 18(and it was not as current as now) on UA-cam and there was less trigger warning so basically around 2010 PETA just traumatised a bunch of kids
Yeah WHY PETA WHY-
@@ShortStop_Productions1992 because they think doing that will stop people from eating meat.
for me.
it does the opposite.
@@Boomrainbownuke9608 Same I wish PETA (Along with That Vegan Teacher and her Vegastans) just didn’t exist
I got 420 like this is nice
the PETA ads i get sometimes is pure animal abuse videos. it's disgusting.
I played black/blue when I was 10 and I've always had a really bad fear of blood. It was nightmare fuel and I didn't touch the computer for days, spending most of the time playing Soul Silver on the ds.
Shocking kids doesn't exactly work, you'll just get them to hate the specific content and, later in life, to dislike its producer.
Edit: right, I almost forgot. My diet includes little to no vegetables because I litterally can't bring myself to eat the majority of them, with the only exeptions being uncooked carrots and fennels, and omelette with spinach or zucchini.
I will get sick if I eat anything else, last time I tried I vomited, so going vegan for me is unfeasible.
Just a tip if you can't eat broccoli, add cheese sauce and or try sauted vegetables
As long as ur healthy it does not matter
I was so insulted when I fought Ash, that I just let him beat my Pokémon because he deserves better. Then PETA took notice of this and froze my game before my last Pokémon died.
Damn, you're not even allowed to lose.
imagine not even letting the characters lose just so they don't look bad.
@Alpha Phoenix7959 no, it's more likely that the game just doesn't have any code for when you die, so it just crashes because it calls upon nothing
No, I still had some health left and I had plenty of moves as well. The game just didn’t let me click anything. And no it didn’t crash because I reloaded, played through it, started letting Ash kick me in the teeth, and it did it again.
Actually, humans eating pokemon is a very common topic in the Pokémon franchise even some Pokédex entries talk about how good some Pokémon taste, also in sword and shield you can cook food and some of the food you can make include slowpoke tails, and krabbys and kinglers.
And even then, frequently in the show and in sword and shield, we can frequently see all humans just eat non meat foods. Such as eggs or stew. So really, Peta kinda just smacked themselves in the face.
"noo little Asian, don't eat pikachu raw! "
When I was a kid, I always assumed in the pokemon world that there would be non-pokemon type animals for the humans to eat, even if they did ocassionly eat pokemon ( in accordance to the pokedex entries i.e slowpoke tails, magikarp, farfetche'd to name a few). But as an adult with my understanding of the animal kingdom, of course it makes sense that pokemon would be a food source in many places and not just for the humans in the world either, but other pokemon. Though I still do hold onto the belief that there are non-pokemon animals in the world, but that's just a personal head canon now. lol.
Basculains Dex entry says the youth used to have the meat as a snack
i thinks it’s cus essentially there are no “animals” and it’s just pokémon hence why they have like ranches with like ponytail or like miltank milk
PETA USED TO have good intentions, but now they execute it worse than a fly trying to exit my house.
At least the fly gets out EVENTUALLY peta just... *fwomp*
Out of all things, I wanna nitpick Jigglypuff's design in these games because I know nobody else is gonna talk about it.
There's a bleeding bite mark. ON THEIR HAIR.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think hair has blood a in it. And I'm also pretty sure that the teeth would just go through the hair without leaving a mark because hair is so thin that it's nearly impossible to hit as hard as a bite.
Is Jigglypuff's hair actually hair? Or is it an extra arm or something?
peta thinks so but you're right, its really fluffy fur (pokedex for wigglytuff, but it counts)
more importantly, how would its bones work
does it stretch at will like a snake on dire hits
Please ignore the bone petruding from the miltanks utter, i know it looks like a straw.
@@rorrim0 that’s actually part of a milking machine
@@rorrim0 I'm pretty sure Miltank broke out of the milking machine and part of it is on her udder.
The most unintentionally funny part about this game is that some of the footage of cows being 'tortured' is actually footage of people giving the cows medical care.
@Boingu McGoingu double negative 💀
I mean, don't think sheep shearing which I think is needed for domestic sheep to survive is abuse? So it tracks honestly /J
Sounds like this group wouldn't realize that Arceus destroyed the humans that actually did animal abuse (citation required, current citation unreliable)
@@daiymohermitaurenjoyer9160 sheep wool shearing is needed so that they dont have to carry to much weight and if not done for a long time it will cause some damage to the sheep skin when sheered
Hope that helps
@@kollatherals_alt thanks, I thought it was like overheating but that also makes sense
8:55
My dude, funniest part of this is that Team Plasma are the evil team in Unova, the very region they mentioned
Yeah they literally abuse pokemons in black and white
And the very funny part is that saving Pokémon from abusive trainers is their core goal
@@Red_penguin15strange... their goal was "Presumibley" freeing pokemon from abuse. But they beat up Muna and used pokemon.
The only kinda thing they got right about Pokémon is that they get eaten, nice one PETA. You get a singular clap.
And their mom gets some plap plaps
which technically isnt right (at least from what ive seen)
SCP 173
@@fencecreature No, pokemon get eaten. Some pokemon the dex referred to as tasty and you even can include pokemon body parts in the curry in sword and shield (kingler and slowpoke being 2 in the curry dex I can think of).
@@testerwulf3357 I'm pretty sure most of those entries are talking about by-products, like an applun's apple (the worm is the only part that's a Pokemon), or juice that's been fermented in a shuckle's holes.
fun fact: it is confirmed that people DO eat pokemon, not all of them but for example Magikarp is known to be pretty tasty i think
Magikarp is actually shown to be pretty bad eating. Mostly big heavy bones and thick, hard scales without much meat or fat. Krabby, however, is quite edible as are many others.
Magikarp? Tasty?
*Yo me and the boys about to eat some Zubat soup-*
@@Soul.Resonant stop right there
@@ghstcatkp4006 SORRY I MEAN WOOBAT
Peta is the definition of: I wanna be hip and cool with the children👨🦳
Peta is actually terrifying ngl, one time I went to their website and saw a real video of a dog being skinned alive.
Sometimes they forget that kids watch there shit
@@jordon8658 that’s actually what they’re going for. They think that the bigger the reaction, the more people are on their side. Especially with kids, who are more impressionable and more likely to join their side than adults. Many people agree with their points, but then decide not to ever do anything PETA says out of spite towards their tone-deafness and lack of basic decency. Nobody wants to be on the same side as PETA. They all suck.
Omg really? That’s so sad🥺
What the actual hell. Who ever thought this was a good idea like wtf. No one wants to see that. I can't exactly be considered a child anymore but I'm pretty sure that would leave me traumatized for life no matter my age. That must be horrifying. I hope Peta get sued or something because of all the traumatized children who require therapy after seeing that.
@@lucywoomy I know, good thing I wasn't that affected by it
I look at Pokémon battles as either boxing, martial arts, or wrestling except with elemental magic. Pokémon are shown to actually enjoy battling each other and after they faint they’re trainers immediately care for them afterwards. Whenever my Pokémon lost a sliver of HP I’d either immediately use potions or run all the way to the nearest Pokémon center.
I'll be honest, the whole idea of pokemon being captured at forced into dog fighting as a sport is kinda messed up. Though pokemon are able to literally disobey you if you pissed them off.
Pokémon aren’t exclusively used for battling one another. They can be used as either pets or companions, in beauty contests, or can assist us in construction, transportation, agriculture, medicine, etc.
if real world terms were being looked at then competitive pokemon players would be scum since they do mass selective breeding, dog fights and forced competitions for unconsenting animals.
but thats the thing, its not real world, its fiction. if the same logic peta does for pokemon was used then all first person shooter companies and their players are war supporters who are into genocide even though thats pure nonsense.
hence why we need to learn the distinction between reality and fiction.
@@anafu-sankanashi8933 it's not really forced because what's really stopping the Pokemon from getting out of there pokeballs, killing/knocking out there trainers and running away in order to blend in with other wild pokemon?
@@nycto4512 gaslighted competitions?
I love that they picked Unova, considering that the evil team of generation 5 was basically PETA
I mean Slowpoke Tails are a delicacy throughout the world of pokemon, but since Slowpokes are like lizards they just grow their tail back, plus it doesn't harm them in anyway as they never notice, but also literally, pokemon kill other pokemon like actual real life predators and pray, so Peta needs to do more research
Ah yes, pray.
@Cool Game Moments autocorrect is forever a true mystery in how it corrects words
Pokemon's biggest threat are NOT humans. Their biggest threat is other pokemon
@@Cardinal_Skull 😆😆😆
it would be so fucking funny if there was a review of this game where the person reviews it at face value
"honestly the game is a 1/10, the game was a minute long, the graphics are horrible, the diologe is forced and unatural, the story was conveluted, the blood estetic was cheese. overall peta put minimal effort into this and it shows" just compleatly overlooks the message
The message is so badly delivered that it would oower the ratibg
The idea of a dark alternative universe where trainers abuse their Pokémon constantly is an interesting idea, but this… is NOT it!
4:30 Eating pokemon is canon, Slowpoke tails are delicacies both by pokemon and humans, but its considered illegal for humans to butcher slowpoke
Yeah, and even then it's in JOHTO (and Galar, I think) and not Unova
Accourdin to top comment slowpoke dont actually feel anything when their tail got chop or eaten and it grow back relatively quick
Theres slowpoke tail curry in pokemon sword and shield
@@hello.9958 It's just some animal(pokemon as that what they call the animals) protection so that slowpokes aren't abused and are not actually harmed(if they do feel pain)
If I’m right, they also eat chansey eggs
When I was a kid (Very little kid) me and a group from the school went to play some games on one's computer, the games where:
- Super Smash Flash (Normal)
- Cooking Mama (That freaking Peta version)
- This pokemon games
We thought the slaughter games where from people who hates animals, and years later I just found out they came from people who is supposed to care for the animals... I don't know what to think about this, Peta's just making a big bunch of bullcrap with all that anti-animal abuse games in my opinion
I remember playing twisted cooking mana on Y8 and I thought it's just s parody made by some dude on the internet. I dont even what the vegan is back then
Wait, Twisted cooking mama was made by PETA?? always assumed it was made by some dude.
I watched gameplays of that shit when I was like 5
They say they love animals but apparently hate children
@@sunshineyunni4192 i saw gameplays of peta games at age 7 and never supported them
I'm glad I never played these when I was a kid! Mostly because my tablet just couldn't give me out an English PETA site, basing on request in russian. But when I first saw PETA's Cooking mama speedrun in internet (searched for a normal cooking mama speedrun), I thought it was a crappy horror makeover.
The fact that the comment up there was "WHERE IS PIKACHU?????" confirms that they managed to get kids to watch that
5:06 “The hamburgler then fucking dies” is weirdly hilarious and has me laughing for 4 minutes
When I was a kid ( I'm currently 19) I played these games and was sent to those animal abuse videos at every turn. At the time no warning or anything, was horrifying.
damn. yeah, i remember when i was 7 or 8 playing that disgusting cooking mama ripoff and seeing a fucking animated turkey get dissected brutally. thanks peta.
My fave pokemon theory - pokemon actually want to help you!! It was a developed thing between most pokemon as they were worried that humans would get hurt when traversing trails and woods. They decided to join them as traveling partners!
Also I think I heard that it was cannon that people ate magicarp sashimi.
Ironic how peta relised that game in the gen 5 era
Gen 5 the game in Wich an evil team tries to convince everyone that pokemon don't want to be captured but not because they care about them but because they want to be the only one how Owen pokemon so they can rule over the world
Just like peta wants people to believe them even tho they kill 90% of the Animals they "rescue" and just like team plasma(yup the same name has the devs lmao this proofs they didn't even played the game) why do they do that?
Money power and fame
I won't be surprised if they got inspiration from PETA to make team plasma or that PETA thought that Nintendo was mocking/parodying them with team plasma
Petantendo
Does this mean we could say that PETA’s Pokémon games are team plasma propaganda?
@@firewolf950tfwgaming7 yes
I find it funny they have team plasma as good guys yet you fight the leader of team plasma who is wearing pokemon.
Pokémon Black and Blue: (exists)
Nintendo: What a great way to represent our brand's image. The kids will love this!
Every other Pokémon fangame: (exists)
Nintendo: KILL IT WITH FIRE
Lmao so true
I think it's more so a 'threat' thing.
Everyone knows that the Peta game is crap and isn't going to threaten their sales.
Peta is that low that they don't care.
Why not ask the same about Mc.Donalds?
Ita because PETA has funding, and layers.
Any fan project doesn't. Also fan projects use direct assets, and even when transformed is still directly breaking the intellectual properties once you make that project a public thing.
Does the game kill it with fire have to do anything with this? (And yes there is a literal game called kill it with fire where you kill spiders with fire another weapons)
@@Kytchu_soundslike_kyju Nah it's just a thing people say. Never knew there was a game called that though lol
Literally one of the lore bits in DPPt is that people used to kill and eat Pokemon but they drove Pokemon to near-extinction and eventually they gave up that way of life, it's sort of told through a lil folktale about a boy who finds a sword and kills pokemon with abandon before being greeted by an unknown beast and feeling so sorry for his actions he gives up the sword forever
I remember seeing an image of Pokemon Black and Blue when I was like 7 and thinking it was a creepypasta or something
@@ryantruong887 at the time I didn't
I remember the game too but my memories are quite foggy, i dont remember if I played it, saw gameplay or an image
I watched a gameplay of it when I was seven and still thought it was supposed to be a creepypasta
Edit: I didn’t know what peta was at the time
@@deadmeme7030 at this point it essentially is a creepypasta
@@artisticgarbage708
That’s interesting and unsettling.
This is, in fact, targeted towards children. You should see some of the comics they used to hand out.
Let that sink in
what comics did they hand out exactly? I can tell that this will be interesting due to them handing out "unhappy meals" that contained a bloody chicken toy )if i recalll correctly).
@@josephkeen7224 The two most infamous are "Your Mommy Kills Animals" and "Your Daddy Kills Animals" which had very graphic covers depicting what the titles imply.
@@trashbash2788
That is so sick and wrong.
@@josephkeen7224
Eww.
PETA: grrrr pokemon is animal abuse!!!
also pokemon: added a bonding feature that gives you bonus effects while battling the higher the friendship you have with the Pokémon, and has a move called “return”, which does more power according to the amount of friendship you have with the Pokémon using it.
(Edit: made this longer lol)
and when you become best friends with your pokemon, *they literally refuse to die*
Reminds me of thet one meme where theres like very evil sounding audio then it just cuts to a wholesome ass audio
4:24
Fun fact: In the anime you’ll actually occasionally see the characters eating fried magicarp so by technical definition it would be true but it’s obviously way over exaggerated lol
There’s an apple Pokémon and it’s index says that children eat it.
So did peta forget that wild Pokémon do things like this?:
“It sucks bodily fluids out of its prey. The leftover meat sinks to the seafloor, where it becomes food for other Pokémon.”
And:
“It enwraps its prey in its hairlike arms. It sings joyfully as it observes the suffering of its prey.”
Many people seem to think that without humans, nature would be some kind of paradise, with every creature living happily and without suffering. I guess they just didn't pay attention in their biology classes, otherwise they would know what terrible things organisms can do to survive or gain some sort of advantage.
That 1st one is Gorebyss. That's the pink evil eel!
@@amandamakin1542 It does have 'Gore' in its name after all.
@@l.franciscobattista2559 There's also Beautifly...that thing is just as bad as Gorebyss! 😨
Then we have the Mimikyu Pokédex entry which says that whoever looks under its costume will die painfully at night
9:23 nah thats not Jesse and James, thats Jucki and Jomes right there
I kinda like the design of evil Ash as some kind of 'animal tamer' from the circus. (at least I assume that's the look they were going for) all the blood is unnecessary though. If you want to get the message across to children, I think sad faces and crying would do better than all the gore
Ash does look dapper af in that look but the blood was sooo unneeded
@@elizabethramirezthezenshii9691 ikr, peta is not encouraging anyone, ive played all of peta's games but i still eat meat lmao😂😂😂😂
@@MilwalkerealI eat meat only
@@ccico.7981 I eat meat and veggies
@@Milwalkereal no…only meat
Fun fact: since there is no normal animal, pokemon meat is most likely used for the meat foods
the pokedex does keep bringing up Indian Elephants for rachu until legends
@@iluvyurbles they’re in the process of retcon-ing normal animals from pokemon
@@boopbeep7196 which does kind of make sense
@@boopbeep7196 yeah in the first games/anime it seems like they werent really sure if they wanted this to be a fantasy world completely separate from ours or take place in our world except with pokemon. hence why the Mew/Mewtwo subplot mentions South America and Lt. Surge is canonically referred to as being from the US
@@yep9462 It's theorized that they wanted it to be all Pokémon in the first place, only they didn't have much equivalents for real world animals at first, so they used placeholders of sorts.
9:46
“kids today have never even heard of him”
that aged well, considering that now, grimace is sometimes the only thing spouting out of these kids mouths
a purple shake
Didn’t PETA make some tweet a couple years ago thanking Pokemon for showing how you should treat animals or something?
If you find that link me it
Then a reply said
You mean kidnapping them and forcing them to fight?
Actually in the first pokemon show was said that people would eat Farfetch'd and now they're endangered but not anymore luckily but they do eat krabby and slowpoke tail
Oh so that's why I could never find any Farfetch'd I need to watch the show instead of just playing the games
@@Equinox_5 Eh, Most of the important Lore information in there is already in the games (The Thing about Farfetch is mentioned in the Pokedex) and While there are some really Good Episodes and Arcs, 80% is just Boring Filler
"pokemon is wholesome".... *slowly looks at pokedex*
I own farm animals, and let me just say, they are tasty, and unlike PETA, we don't brutally murder them, well we do kill them, but in the most painless way possible, it disturbs us as much as it disturbs others seeing animals in pain, so it helps to just know how to peacefully kill them, so they have there most peaceful life away from fear, and full of joy all the way to the end. we aren't savages hunting for food as it's our only choice of survival.
I must say in terms of killing your animals you are a chad you don't abuse them to kill them
Exactly. We breed sheep, some we will sell away fat for meat but majority of the ones that are strong get kept for wool and breeding. They live excellent lives here with potentially thousands being spent on medicines needed even if they only have a 50/50 chance. Same with horses, when it's time to put them down whether it's from illness or whatever, the vet comes out and gives them the jab to put them to sleep. They don't get shot point blank in the head. Everything is done as humanely as possible.
But peacefully killing animals is a bit of a double edge sword you can’t use anything like drugs because that would get into the meat so the question is how do you do it?
@@Kat-mu8wq The reason PETA thinks this way because they’re actual demons and monsters sent from hell either that or they’re just really really really REALLY fucking stupid
@@Choujifangirl honestly depends on the animal, for the most part we want them to pass out so we just hang them upside down and let the blood rush do the work, but the killing is different for each, the one I know best are birds because all you need to do is cut their throats and blood let, they don’t feel pain from it and it gets the blood out quickly. Just remember that it’s a skill that takes practice and it’s better to pay butcher to do it since they have a lot more experience at the job
i feel like peta should vouch for laws against animal cruelty in meat production places over getting them trying to be vegan, because a lot more people are going to agree with laws against animal cruelty. No one really wants them to be hurt, even if we do eat em.
@@oddballjake229 exactly 👍
honestly it's just the industry [mostly the ones in less rural areas] that're horrible, like even outside of like animal cruelty it's just poor business practice to treat livestock poorly as it results in a lower quality product and also _they should pay their fucking staff_
@@oddballjake229 I mean.. it still sort of is, maybe less so but, hm. On that note I do eat meat, but I mean.. they have a point, there's not really many arguments against them outside of cost of food n stuff, I'm just too weak to get off of it I guess, too much of a craving
Yeah just a quick slice down the throat or a head bonk, no need to be skinned and tortured and sht
@@vicious_vixel yeah and probably better living conditions. Plus chickens are cool for people who aren't NT, so it'd probably do the world some good to have like a chicken volunteer program or something of the sorts.
@@caramel9154 sorry but what's NT?
So PETA over here completely ignoring that Pokémon overtime started to come out of tall grass to trainers because THEY want to fight with the trainer to become stronger.
The Pokémon are caught because they want to fight with trainers and become stronger
I'm surprised that they didn't get copyright striked by Nintendo by now
Yeah why didn’t Nintendo copyright strike PETA in the first place?! They should’ve done that!
Nintendo only copyright strikes content people like or is used to raise money for charity, I guess.
i feel like the employees in charge of taking things down just burst out laughing and forgot to send the email or whatever
@@SuspiciousZorua Oh yeah
@@SuspiciousZorua They forgor 💀
I remember playing peta games as a kid
Didn't know what peta was. Always thought they were just super edgy games
They actually are
Lmao
How on earth do these people not get in trouble not just for exposing children to graphic content, but also on terms of extreme copyright infringement?
because PETA, being a major organization, hides under the lie of saving animals
"if pokemons saw what we did to animals, would they still be nice to us?"
Dogs: yes
Dogs are based
My cat would literally ask me for the animal body so she can eat it
Hell no. Arceus would exterminate us
@@ArceTheTrollOH GOD
@@majinprince-xanaden nah you're wrong, it's what we do to OURSELVES that makes him want to exterminate us.
11:45 also the pokeballs canonically are suited for the pokemon that lives in them (so like a Snorlax might have a field with easy to access food and a comfy spot to lay down)
so you mean like a bridge? or some other very important place you have to go through
@@sakura368 yah probably
10:37 It sounds like that one AU where everything went *really* not according to plan. (Like, you know... AU where the plot of a lighthearted project took a sinister or horror twist. For example, a character died or a nuke went off causing an apocalypse)
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Has anyone thought about the idea of peta having full access to animal abuse? Where did they get this from
Idk but it’s very stupid that PETA did that
they do some of the stunts themselves. Bit ironic for a company that's trying to prevent what they are doing
I remember Pokémon Black and Blue, I didn’t play it as a kid but I knew about it and thought it was made by some edgelords. Then I found out recently it was made by FRICKING PETA??? LMAOO
11:35 Ash looks like the once-ler from the lorax
11:37 fun Pokémon fact about the pokeball: the pokeballs are actually big rooms for the pokemon inside, doctor who style.
Not to mention, the entire concept of Luxury Balls...
@@BinglesPDo they have casinos in there!?
I imagine the normal balls are just from the inside a big room with a cushion on the bottom for the pokemon to sleep
But the luxury balls have like VR so the pokemon can just vibe
im pretty sure i heard that pokeballs have their own pocket dimensions for pokemons, and they can meet eachother in there n stuff
it is confirmed in the anime, inside the luxury ball is a Kareoke room with a disco ball
I remember playing these when I was a kid and being angry at these games. How dare they ruin the wholesomeness of Pokemon!
Also yes, some Pokemon are eaten in the canon, like a Magikarp. But they treat if the same way as eating animals in the real world. Pretty much every Pokemon will eat another Pokemon in their lives. They're all omnivores.
Given pokemon seem to be a lot more sentient and human-like in mind than regular animals that's sort of terrifying actually
I’m still angry at PETA’s parody games and I feel the same way as you used to as a kid how dare they ruin my favorite thing?!
I feel like whenever a game allows you to name something, you always feel the need to write the funniest or dumbest name
Holy shit I remember black and blue. absolutely fucked me up as a pokemon kid
“What if humans got their hands on pokemons?”
“Vapereon is t-“
*don’t*
@@grunchchristmas the most
cool
*Sigh* Here we go again.
*Unzips pants*
someone might accidentally drink a vaporeon
@@ConsarnitTokkori have you seen the famous copypasta
5:38 Hamburgla- I mean Mysterious Stranger: I have to go now, my planet needs me
It's weird how well that fits
We also can't forget about that one episode in the original season where Ash was freezing alive and had them all in their balls to protect them... and they VOLUNTARILY come out of their balls and group hug, running the risk of every single one of them dying. Yeah... totally can't get along. Also, we're talking about a series where you have a monster ghost that kidnaps children... maybe should be more focused on that than the idea of MONSTERS fighting each other. Don't see PETA going after the Godzilla franchise, nor will they ever because "Oh, well that's unrealistic"... so is Pokemon. When have you ever seen something made out of literal fire, or a phoenix, or a giant stone dragon?
gojira/godzilla is literally a radiation-mutated-lizard, he is, by technicality, still an animal, a very very large lizard
I always thought it was funny that they knew absolutely nothing about Pokemon, and just assumed that team plasma wanted to save Pokemon
Yeah, they obviously didn't finish Black and White
Man I'm so happy I stopped eating animals, and started eating human.
"it teaches you to love and respect all pokemon"
yeah ok bud tell that to the ditto in the daycare
ngl he might be having either his best or his worst life in there
I Honestly don’t think ditto has any brains And I’m pretty sure Pokémon are happy mating with either their own species or a ditto because I’m not sure if they can tell the difference
I've always assumed that in the Pokemon world, Humans along with the meat eating Pokemon kill and eat non-sentient animals that never appear onscreen as the show is about Pokemon and Humans, not the non-sentient normal animals. Therefore, these PETA games are completely inaccurate in my mind.
Same
Me too
They used to have real animals in the old episodes of the anime since they only had the first 151 to go with. They changed it later to only include humans and Pokémon exclusively. Of course, though, this is only the anime canon.
There are only 2 pokemon moves that i can think of regarding love/hate in pokemon. Those being return and frustration.
Return does more damage the more your pokemon loves you
Frustration does more damage the more you pokemon hates you
Thanks for reminding me of the chest thing, that still haunts me to this day
What’s the name of the vid? Please don’t say “you don’t wanna see it” or sum please
Why put an apostrophe on "thanks?"
@@kosherre6243 i don't remenber anymore lol
When? Link the moment please
@@smore9831 ???
1:06 man, poor oshawott, peta has smoked some real S H E T to do these games
Look what they have done to my boy ;_;
Chill dude, PETA's only trying to show you what they actually do to their "rescued" animals lol
@@jador9641 MAN my homie oshawott, what did they did to him :(
That's my second favourite starter Pokémon and the only starter I've chosen as my partner three times. (BW, BW2 and Legends) So it does hurt me a bit.
@@Superluigi881 Can relate to that.
Some Pokémon are eaten.
Slowpoke tails are a good example. There's even a cooking ingredient in Sword and Shield that is, again, a Slowpoke's tail. However, the Slowpoke hardly ever notices and they grow back fast. According to one of the handbooks, "If a Slowpoke's tail breaks off as it goes about its business, it probably won't even notice, and a new one will grow in quickly. The discarded tail can be dried for use in cooking."
Some of Basculin's dex entries state that they used to be commonly eaten, and Sword and Shield's entries even state that they taste different depending on if they're a red-striped or blue-striped Basculin. Red-striped Basculin's Shield entry states, "In the past, it often appeared on the dinner table. The meat of red-striped Basculin is on the fatty side, and it's a lot more popular with the youth." Blue-striped Basculin's Sword entry states, "Blue-striped Basculin used to be a common food source. They apparently have an inoffensive, light flavor."
Alcremie's Sword entry hints that it may use some of its body in food it gives to people it likes, saying, "When it trusts a Trainer, I will treat them to berries it's decorated with cream." I say hinted because it's never outwardly stated that it uses cream from its own body, but it's likely the case.
Appletun's Shield entry mentions that children used to eat the skin on its back. However, it never states whether or not this harms the Appletun, so take that how you will.
There are a lot more examples, but those are some key ones that are talked about a lot in the Pokédexes of the games they appear in.
Seeing a tortured miltank after fighting Whitney made me feel *AMAZING*, thanks PETA!
The one good thing PETA has done with these games (If you don't know why then ask someone who has beaten Gen 2)
This company is really infuriating but I am really thankful to peta for helping me stop being vegetarian.
The peta cooking mama game traumatized me as a kid, whenever i see the original game i was too scared to even look at it.
4:25 Doing a quickk google search you get this:
Simply put, it is a fact that people eat Pokémon. In the original television show, Farfetch'd, a duck-like Pokémon, was hunted to near extinction because of its delicious taste, similar to the blue fin tuna today.
6:34
IS THAT ME?????
yeah uh so,can you send me the link to the video?:D
idk, is that you???
I remember Connor the waffle commenting that
Congrats your famous
There is so much about these Pokémon games that show that PETA doesn’t know jack shit about Pokémon
First is the move Return,Return increases in power when the Pokémon that uses it has a higher happiness
Second is that,in newer games Pokémon do stuff to make their trainers proud because of their great bond,such as higher critical hit ratios,removing crippling status conditions,dodging attacks and surviving on low health
Finally,some Pokémon evolve by friendship,Pichu to Pikachu,Riolu to Lucario,Eevee to Espeon,Umbreon and Sylveon,Golbat to Crobat and more
The newer games only push the "be nice to your Pokémon" message even harder with the affection mechanic and pokemon amie and even the older games had Return as one of the best attacks in the game which is powered by how much your Pokémon likes you while Frustration which is powered by the opposite is next to useless because it's not ideal at all to use.
the art/animations actually look kinda cool (except grimace) if you ignore the super exaggerated gore and propaganda and some of the dialogue is unintentionally funny
When it says “what would humans do when they get their hands on Pokémon?”
Bro, it depends on the Pokémon, like a Vaporeon and other ones
“Don’t people in unova eat Pokémon?”
Matpat: Well they should!
It's actually kind of funny, because Legends Of Arceus almost feels like it's answering all of Peta's criticism. Like, there's a whole bit where you're trying to convince the people that poke balls are ethical and kind actually. The game centers around catching and studying Pokémon, and doing so to create a world where humans and Pokémon can coexist. Cuz, like, people definitely get hunted and eaten by pokemon. Not out right, but it does reference it.
Pokémon are actually the one that eats or hunted humans instead of the opposite so.
@@JobiMorkos Arceus has dialogue of where it goes both ways. Pokemon are monsters, and were monsters. In the modern era games, it's a lot rarer, and people have tamed Pokemon to protect themselves. It is canon that "blacking out" is a family friendly alternative that other people don't always have the luxury of. Pokemon are stated to be dangerous in almost every game. Just a danger that you can train and befriend to minimize.
4:30
Yeah, actually, "Its body is covered in sweet nectar, and the skin on its back is especially yummy. Children used to have it as a snack." -Shield pokedex entry for Appletun.
The idea that big N destroyed Pokemon Emerald but still lets these projects live makes me feel really uneasy
Emerald was an official game. Are you referring to Pokémon Uranium or something?
@@BinglesP Oh, yeah. Should've at least checked twice.