The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals might hate Cooking Mama, but they love Fable II. They've selected it as the most animal-friendly videogame of 2008 for strictly culinary reasons.

Fable 2 is a vegetarian's dream come true. Why? In this virtual fight between good and evil, characters powered by tofu are just as powerful as their meat-eating counterparts--and are more fit and attractive to boot. Featuring a strong pro-vegetarian theme, eating a plant-based diet helps you rack up "purity" points, whereas eating meat makes your character fat and evil. A fun and innovative game, it's also an effective tool that teaches gamers the real-life benefits of a vegetarian diet.

There are two values for your character's alignment in the game: purity and morality. Purity is the scale between pure and corrupt. Many types of food and drink affect this value. Morality is the scale between good and evil. Very few types of food affect this value. Here's the complete list.

As you can see, all four types of tofu and hydroponic carrots are a +5 to morality. But contrary to what PETA says, meats have no affect whatsoever on morality. The only food that affects your morality is live crunchy chicks, which you have to eat to be admitted to the Temple of Shadows. Not even Cooking Mama eats those!

So, PETA, dudes, play moar Fable II, n00bs!

This post brought to you by a meat-eating Fable II nerd who's meat-eating character might be fat and corrupt, but he certainly isn't evil.