When is it Okay to Decapitate a Goat?

Apparently not at the release party for a new video game . Sony is now having to fall all over itself apologizing for having a real decapitated goat on display as part of the release party for its new video game God of War II. The party went off without a hitch, complete with “topless women dropping grapes into guests mouths and games that included throwing knives at a target and pulling live snakes from a pit with bare hands, the Daily Mail in London reported.”

When is it Okay to Decapitate a Goat?

Usually in America, it would be the topless women that get some prude group of the month riled up, but this time it was the headless goat, with PETA all in an uproar. Never mind the imagery of the game itself: all bloody corpses, evisceration, and decapitations. That’s all okay. Just don’t hurt a poor little goat. Come on people!

Of course this probably won’t go down as the smartest PR move, but the issue not really so simple. The party was in Greece, where the organizers simply paid a butcher to borrow a dead goat that was already slaughtered. I’m sure it got eaten by someone afterwards. And as Jennifer Eaton Gokmen shows us in this story, a headless goat can mean many things. In the Offering: Two Sides of a Turkish Sacrifice

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