Did any one face palm when they played "Farm Frenzy"? You can raise animals there, just like getting eggs from chickens and milk from cows. When you get to the pig, it will drop off a piece of bacon without harm and continues to move and happily eat grass as if nothing happened!
Oh, are we talkin' about games now? Cool. Here's some nifty veg*n-related stuff in games I play:
MINECRAFT
Minecraft is designed to be a survival game. On your first day you'll be moving quick to find a good spot to roost, but it will consume your stamina quickly. Once you run out of stamina you can't run and your health drains until one hit, you're dead.
The only way to regenerate health is to eat and the easiest way to do so it to beat a sheep, cow, or pig to death and eat it. The best alternatives are either to get lucky and find an apple tree which MIGHT give you Apples, or to beat up enough grass to plant Wheat and then wait long enough to begin starving before you can harvest grain from it which you can then bake into Bread.
If that proves too difficult, you're one hit away from death and if you die you respawn ALL THE WAY back to your respawn point, usually far away from your shelter and any of the items you dropped when you die (which is everything you're carrying). What you're SUPPOSED to do is make a bed and sleep in it, which sets your respawn point at the bed. However the only way to make a bed is out of Blocks of Wool.
The fastest way to collect Blocks of Wool is to murder sheep.
The most efficient way to collect Wool is to make Shears and cut Wool off of sheep, however Shears require Iron and Iron is a finite resource you'll likely only find after committing to a serious mineshaft.
The most ETHICAL way to collect Wool is to survive long enough for Spiders to spawn and attack you. If you kill Spiders they have a 66% chance of dropping at least 1 String. 4 String make a Block of Wool and you need 3 Wool to make a bed. That means you need to kill approximately 20 Spiders to make a Bed and just one Spider can easily sneak up and murder you.
It's a severe handicap, but this how I always play Minecraft.
THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM
Skyrim has many modes of travel, but one of the most ideal is to ride by horse. It allows you to experience dynamic events in the world that you'd miss if you fast travel, but at a faster pace than running. There're also paid horse-drawn carriage rides for more roleplay-esque travel.
I never hire them though, I pretty much always join the Companions and turn into a Werewolf which allows me to sprint faster than any horse. It also lets me run straight up to the stableowners and carriage drivers and eat them. Actually, I make a point of murdering every non-vegan I can find in Skyrim.
"I've been hunting and fishing in these parts for years!" *stock dialog*
*unsheathes battleaxe*
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME
Zelda games are rarely vegan by any stretch, from riding Epona, to capturing wild fairies in jars, to collecting frog eyeballs, to eating ghosts. However anyone here who hasn't played Ocarina of Time should know that this game, commonly considered to be the greatest game of all time, features what is perhaps the most glorious karmic backlash ever seen from barnyard animals.
Cuckoos are the common name for chickens in the game. And they are invincible. If you slash them with your sword they will shriek and run away. At this point particularly vindictive players learned the hard way what happens when you abuse an animal. If you strike any Cuckoo three times, it will call for it's brethren which will swarm the screen and descend upon Link to murder his ass. There's no killing them or stopping them. The only solution is to run away.
This karmic backlash is almost as notorious as Link's Awakening shopkeeper, who if you walk into his store, take something and then leave without paying, then revisit later, he will make Link eat ball lightning. Instant death. No saving throws. Game over.
THE SIMS 3
The Sims 3 introduces a new mechanic called traits which basically give your Sims personality quirks. One of them is Vegetarian. Being Vegetarian allows Sims to cook special vegetarian meals with the Cooking skill. That Sim can also complain about meat to other Sims while other Sims can either applaud or mock their vegetarianism.
They can mock all they want however since even though Vegetarian Sims get sick from eating meat, they actually live longer than other Sims.
ANY VIVA PINATA GAME EVER
Perhaps one of the most bizarre and disturbing games when you think about it. Everyone's a pinata. You're a gardener. You "win" the game by creating a garden that attracts the most pinatas. That seems simple enough, but you realize the only way to get the most out of the game is to breed the pinatas.
And the only way to breed the pinatas is to make them horny.
And the often the only way to make them horny is to smack 'em around or make them eat each other.
But you don't know which pinatas they like to eat, so it's trial and error.
And even if they lay an egg, it'll only hatch if you hit it.
And if you hit it wrong, you might kill the baby inside.
WHAT AM I PLAYING!?
ANY HARVEST MOON GAME EVER
**** Harvest Moon. Seriously. The whole point of the game is to slowly and meticulously, day by day, raise a farm, plants, animals, and all, so you can raise enough money to woo one of the stereotypically dateable girls in town, have sex with her, make a baby and then quit playing because there's nothing else to do.
I'll admit the plant-a-seed-and-watch-it-grow game mechanics were interesting and I really liked the idea of building a farm from the ground up with every day offering new events and changes to the game world, but no, I can't look at this game fondly anymore, it's just stupid.
ANY POKEMON GAME EVER
Non-humans are Pokemon. You're a Pokemon trainer! Catch them all and make them fight until they faint! Yay! Pokemon is the friggen' weird video game poster boy for welfarism, saying "catch 'em all to become a Pokemon Master!" in the same breath as "Pokemon and us share a special bond, Pokemon are our friends!" and likewise if you've heard anything from PETA in the past few years, you might know they went after Pokemon and actually created their own ripoff Pokemon game in which you play the Pokemon, broken and abused, as they violently rebel against their trainers.
A lot of people made fun of it, but it was strangely appropriate considering how much slack-jawed stupidity goes into and comes out of the Pokemon series.
ANY DRAGON QUEST: MONSTERS GAME EVER
The significantly less popular Pokemon game. Dragon Quest: Monsters is also a monster collection game, but they immediately make a FIRM distinction between themselves and Pokemon:
You don't CAPTURE monsters. You SCOUT them. In Pokemon the goal is to beat and batter every Pokemon down until it's near death and then capture it when it can barely resist. In DQM, if you want a monster on your team, you don't hurt it, you scout it by performing your single strongest non-damaging attack in an attempt to impress them. If they like you, they'll join you. It's completely consensual. It's also a hell of a lot harder in DQM.
You also don't BREED monsters. You SYNTHESIZE them. It seems a minor distinction, but I prefer DQM's approach. In Pokemon, you leave two Pokemon together in a Daycare Center in attempt for them to have sex and lay eggs for you which can hatch into another Pokemon for you to subjugate. In DQM, you're literally combining two monsters into a bigger, cooler one, usually one obviously higher on the food chain than you. And unlike Pokemon, you're rewarded for taking care of the monsters you have with you.
EVERY ASSASSIN'S CREED GAME EVER
I must be the only one who notices, but the Assassins are
total dicks to horses.
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Opening: Ezio slices a horse's front legs with his rapier.
Assassin's Creed 3 Opening: Connor rides a horse directly into a hailstorm of English musket fire.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate Opening: Jacob whips and drowns two horses in a river.