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If you haven\u2019t heard of the online game Minecraft<\/a>, you must have been scratching your head wondering about those block-like characters dominating the toy and children\u2019s apparel aisles for the past few years. Minecraft is a seriously popular online game (much like a Lego’s animation game), where players need to secure certain items like iron or ore to build imaginary block-like landscapes.<\/p>\n

Minecraft also includes animal characters (imagine square-looking pigs and sheep!) that players need to woo with the right item in order to tame them; for example to tame\u00a0a cat, you need to catch a virtual fish and feed it to the cat.<\/p>\n

Parrots In Minecraft<\/h3>\n

More recently, Minecraft added four types of tameable parrot<\/a> characters. To get a parrot, the player feeds the bird\u00a0a chocolate chip cookie. Some parrot-knowledgeable user pointed out that chocolate can be toxic to parrots. \u201cYou can\u2019t tell me some 6-year-old is going to play Minecraft and then try to feed their Mom\u2019s 45-year-old Macaw chocolate chips or a chocolate chip cookie,\u201d someone wrote under the user name 1jl.<\/p>\n

Mojang AB, the company that owns Minecraft, issued a response to the online chatter, stating that it will change out the cookie with a more healthy option. I vote for a Nutri-Berrie<\/a>! Let\u2019s let out a collective \u201cHooray!\u201d for Mojang correcting this oversight.<\/p>\n

Watch Out For Bad Pet Food In Movies<\/h3>\n

I cringe when I see a movie or advertisement that depicts the wrong food being fed to birds and other pets, especially in regard to kid movies. Take, for example, the animated movie \u201cUp\u201d (Pixar Animation Studios, 2009), which deservedly won Oscars for\u00a0Best Animated Feature<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Best Original Score<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to criticize this touching and uplifting movie, but if there were one thing I wish they had changed\u00a0in the script, it would be the chocolate bar one of the main characters uses to befriend the lovable, fictitious, \u201csnipe\u201d bird, named Kevin. I cringed at the thought of young audience members going home and breaking off chunks of chocolate to feed their pets.<\/p>\n

Similarly, I’m sure some bird enthusiasts were a little taken aback by the fact that Blu, the main parrot character in the movie \u201cRio\u201d (20th Century Fox, 2011) loves a mug of hot chocolate to start his day. Again, how about a Nutri-Berrie and a bowl of fresh water to dunk it in instead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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