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DIE, VEGETABLES, DIE!!

KIDS HATE VEGETABLES. Overstatement? Ok, I'll modify that a little. MOST kids hate MOST vegetables. There, better?

Parents are always pushing kids to eat vegetables. WHY, oh why do they load up our plates with this nasty stuff? Unfortunately, there are many good reasons. I hate to admit any of them, but here are two:

(1) Vegetables are very HEALTHY. This is just one of many, many articles listing the health benefits of vegetables:
http://www.choosemyplate.gov/food-groups/vegetables-why.html

(2) Adults have fewer taste buds than kids, so they can't tell (and they apparently do not remember) how vile most vegetables taste. Kids suffer much more when we eat vegetables than adults do:
http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/difference-between-taste-buds-adults-kids-27362.html

Some inventor guy in Japan named Dr. Takayuki Kosaka thinks he can get kids to eat vegetables. He works at the Kanagawa Institute for Technology in Tokyo, Japan. Here's what the dude looks like. Check out how happy he is.

Dr. Kosaka has invented a sensory video game called Food Practice Shooter. It requires the player to move through a city looking for "bad guys." Sounds like a million other video games, right? Well, with this one, the "bad guys" are giant . . . VEGETABLES. Yes. Vegetables. They're trying to take over the city. Seriously. Here's a view of the game. Sooooo . . . here come the GIANT . . . carrots? And, uh, peppers! And, oh my, tomatoes! LOOK OUT!! FIERCE VEGETABLES ON THE LOOSE!!

The object of the game is to shoot down the invading giant vegetables. You shoot them down with more, umm, vegetables. So, how does this thing get kids to actually EAT vegetables? The game includes three scales which must be loaded up with actual vegetables in order for the game to work. You have to wear headphones that contain sensors. Every time you fire, your ammunition is depleted. There's only one way to get more ammo. You must chew your vegetables AND - get this - SMILE while you're doing it! The headphones can sense a chewing motion! You must smile at a camera on the controller while chewing! Or else, no more ammo. Game over. Wanh wah.

So it seems kind of stupid and it pretty much is. The only cool thing that I can see is the controller. It looks like a rocket launcher (check out happy guy above again . . . he's holding the controller).

I think this game would be better if kids got to shoot junk food with vegetables. Shooting vegetables with vegetables doesn't make any sense.

Well that's it. I wouldn't play this game. Would you?

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