Pac-Man
Vegans don’t eat meat. In fact, Peope for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, has long tried to enter the world of video games and show gamers that using and abusing animals is cruel and wrong. The group recently introduced a parody of Mario’s Tanooki Suit power-up in a fairly disturbing manner, but perhaps their best attempt at swaying the gaming populace was with the arcade smash hit, Pac-Man.
The ‘easy to learn, impossible to master’ game features a yellow creature (it is uncertain whether this creature is supposed to be human or animal – the creators have always been intentionally vague when the question arises in interviews) that eats everything in sight, taking care to include no meat in its diet.
Pac-Man happily chows down on assorted fruits such as cherries, strawberries, and oranges; pellets – multi-vitamins to provide your body with its necessary nutrients; and ghosts – because of course you cannot eat human flesh, being meat, so you must remove the corporeal body in order to devour the soul left behind.
When you think about it, the truth has been staring us in the face the entire time. Take another look at the PAC-MAN logo above. Drop the P. Flip the A upside-down. Swap the C and M, and rotate the M 90 degrees clockwise. What are you left with?
VE-GAN.
