Computer Game Teaches About Factory
Farming
We received this email
about a new computer game and asked a couple upper primary school
students to try it out. Both gave the game an enthusiastic thumbs
up. Here’s the email.
I've just posted a new
project to Animalvisuals. org: Farm Rescue. Some of you know that
the most popular social games right now happen to be farming games
on Facebook. Farm Rescue is somewhat of a parody of these games
that is meant to educate people about how intensive confinement on
factory farms causes animal suffering. In the game, you get to
rescue hens from battery cages, and they start out looking
terrible. You can help them practice their natural behaviors like
perching, dustbathing, nesting, exploring, and exercising, and the
more behaviors they practice, the faster their feathers will grow
back and they will return to health.
You can read more about the
game at:
http://www.animalvi
suals.org/ advocacy/ farmrescue
Or, you can check out the
game website at:
http://www.farmresc
uegame.com
Or, you can go straight to
the game on Facebook using this link:
http://apps. facebook.
com/farmrescue
I'd love to hear any feedback
you may have.
Thank
you!
Mark
Middleton
[email protected] org