PETA's Animal Crossing Guide

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PETAs Animal Crossing Guide refers to a post and article published by animal rights group PETA urging Animal Crossing players to play the game vegan and pointing out where it's possible. The post made in March 2020 was mocked on Twitter for concentrating efforts on virtual animals.

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On March 23rd, 2020, PETA^[1] published an article called "PETA’s Vegan Guide to ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’" which urged players to abstain from fishing, catching bugs, clams or hermit crabs and from building a dog house. The group posted the article to their Twitter^[2] account and gained over 3,800 likes and 1,700 retweets in three days (shown below).

PETA @peta Is it #vegan to go fishing? Is it ethical to catch bugs? Is Tom Nook exploiting you? #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons The Vegan Guide to Animal Crossing: New Horizons | PETA Is it ethical to play Animal Crossing: New Horizons as a vegan? This guide will help answer all your animal rights questions related to the game! S peta.org 7:02 PM · Mar 23, 2020 · Sprout Social

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On March 24th, 2020, Twitter users began mocking the PETA article. Twitter user @PhantomArtifice^[3] tweeted "PETA WHAT ARE YOU ON GO AWAY IT'S ANIMAL CROSSING GOOD GRIEF" which received over 53,500 likes in two days (shown below, left). That same day, Twitter user @owlgoddess24^[4] tweeted, "peta when they kill a dog vs peta when someone plays animal crossing" comparing two images (shown below, right). The tweet accumulated over 280 likes in two days.

Noah @PhantomArtifice PETA WHAT ARE YOU ON GO AWAY IT'S ANIMAL CROSSING GOOD GRIEF Tum N tiiting yout Is fishing in Animal Crossing New Horisons vegan? X. De clams feet paint How to spread animal rights through Animal Crossing: New Horizons? land an animalendy topian name ike Vegamvile P OR enstoecen Rascaty and Dweller Joel Bom Apri 1h ndoteye 9:30 AM - Mar 24, 2020 · TweetDeck

On March 24th, Twitter user @comradevenustas^[5] tweeted, "hi, i'm vegan! yes it's vegan to play animal crossing and fish in animal crossing and catch bugs in animal crossing veganism is the reduction of animal exploitation from our lives and diets
animal crossing is a game PETA please…you are making this SO hard for activists 😭" (shown below). The tweet gained over 2,400 likes and 430 retweets in two days. The next day, PopBuzz^[6] published an article about reactions to PETA's guide.

venustas @comradevenustas hi, i'm vegan! yes it's vegan to play animal crossing and fish in animal crossing and catch bugs in animal crossing veganism is the reduction of animal exploitation from our lives and diets animal crossing is a *game* PETA please.you are making this SO hard for activists @peta · Mar 23 Is it #vegan to go fishing? PETA Is it ethical to catch bugs? Is Tom Nook exploiting you? #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons peta.vg/2rfh Show this thread 1:10 AM - Mar 24, 2020 · Twitter Web App

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Novice @Nov1ce_ THIS IS A REAL ARTICLE FROM PETA OMG. LET PEOPLE ENJOY THEIR GAME. This is absolutely ridiculous. #AnimalCrossing tgiting yout fahing in Animal Cressing New Horizons vegan? How to spread animal rights through Animal Crossing: New Horizonst toecin 10:09 AM - Mar 24, 2020 - Twitter for iPhone

molly @mmothomm Replying to @peta ur harassing tom nook this is animal cruelty 8:27 PM · Mar 23, 2020 - Twitter for Android

Jacob 'n' Stuff @Jacob_Pinecone Imagine being this dedicated to being a Vegan that you follow PETA's Guide to play Animal Crossing. You literally can't progress further if you don't let Blathers build the museum. = PETA Donate Now p Is fishing in Animal Crossing: New Horizons vegan? What other vegan food can you eat in Animal Crossing: New Horizons Islands have different starting fruits: This is a biggie. Fishing isn't vegant You Apples shouldn't fish in real life, so you shouldn't fish in Peaches the game! Pears PCTA Donate Now p Is Tom Nook Exploiting you? Is it okay to catch bugs in Animal Tom Nook is a tanooki, a racoon dog. Racoon Crossing? dogs are often killed their fur. Tom Nook's family may have been beaten, anally electrocuted to From butterflies to wharf roaches, your island is death, gassed, or skinned alive. Cut him some a bustling home for bugs and other little crittrs. slack. Keep it that way! 4:16 AM - Mar 24, 2020 - Twitter for iPhone

GummyFredo @GummyFredo Everyone: we love Animal Crossing so much #ACNH PETA: = PETA Is fishing in Animal Crossing vegan? Donate Now p 2:46 March This is a biggie. Fishing isn't vegan! You Just as fish don't belong in tanks, insects don't shouldn't fish in real life, so you shouldn't do so belong inside cramped cases in a museum for in the game, either. other villagers to gawk at. Your island should be a place where wild animals are free to live without being captured and exploited. In the = PETA Donate Now p Br 2020 Is it OK to catch bugs in Animal SJunpero has ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY Crossing? on speciesism No shing. No canching bugs. Repect animats whie visting Thank you From butterflies to wharf roaches, your island is a bustling home for various insects and other little animals. Keep it that way! 6:39 AM - Mar 25, 2020 · Twitter for Android

Zeltik @Zeltik w--? @peta please focus on actual animal rights issues, not f------ Animal Crossing. This is why people think you're a joke PETA O @peta · Mar 23 Is it #vegan to go fishing? Is it ethical to catch bugs? Is Tom Nook exploiting you? #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons peta.vg/2rfh Show this thread 7:07 PM · Mar 23, 2020 · Twitter Web App

Mantis-Chan's soapbox @MantisSoapbox "will someone please think of the virtual animals" Imfao i can't believe this s--- isnt satire. goofy asses The Vegan Guide to Animal Crossing: New Horizons | PETA Is it ethical to play Animal Crossing: New Horizons as a vegan? This guide will help answer all your animal rights questions related to the game! 8 peta.org 2:28 AM - Mar 24, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

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^[1] Peta- Animal Crossing New Horizons Vegan

^[2] Twitter – peta

^[3] Twitter – PhantomArtifice

^[4] Twitter – owlgoddess24

^[5] Twitter – comradeevenustas

^[6] PopBuzz – Peta Animal Crossing Vegan Guide

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phucu

Mar 26, 2020 at 04:36PM EDT

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Kekkles the Kek

Mar 26, 2020 at 05:15PM EDT

PETA doesn't give a fuck about helping animals, literally all they do is stir up shit and drama like this. Anything that's trending or popular, they latch onto it and twist it around into a pro-veganism message, regardless of whether or not it's actually true.

Like when Wooloo was revealed and they literally took a frame from the video and put a sign next to it "I'm not your Wooloo sweater"……ignoring the fact that sheep NEED to be sheared, it's unhealthy for them to have large amounts of wool on their bodies.

Or all of the stupid Pokemon """parody""" games they made. Imagine if all that time and money was spent actually helping animals instead of doing stupid shit like this that just makes vegans look bad.

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