Road kill candy offensive?
 

Dunno. What ya think? :confused: Sounds like bunny-huggers that need to get out more.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/25/roadkill.candy.ap/index.html

Road kill candy angers animal rights activists
Kraft: 'We didn't mean to offend anyone'
Friday, February 25, 2005 Posted: 9:41 AM EST (1441 GMT)
TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) -- Animal rights activists are disgusted by a new candy from Kraft Foods Inc. that's shaped like critters run over by cars -- complete with tire treads.

The fruity-flavored Trolli Road Kill Gummi Candy -- in shapes of partly flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels -- fosters cruelty toward animals, according to the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

"It sends the wrong message to children, that it's OK to harm animals. And that's the wrong message, especially from a so-called wholesome corporation like Kraft," said society spokesman Matthew Stanton.

The society is considering petition drives, boycotts and letter-writing campaigns to get the candy pulled from the market, Stanton said.

After receiving a complaint from the NJSPCA Wednesday, Kraft officials pulled an animated advertisement from Trolli's Web site that featured car headlights and animals.

No other decisions on changes have been made, said Kraft spokesman Larry Baumann.

"If you look across the Gummi category we certainly have many products that are offbeat, and that's what we were doing in this case," Baumann said. "We didn't mean to offend anyone."

Next thing you'll hear is them trying to ban gummi worms and gummi bears :rolleyes:

and animal crackers . . . Save the Pepperidge Farm Goldfish . . . :D

The manufacturer should have the right to make it and distribute it.

Hopefully, the public, if it has any brainpower left whatsoever, has the right and the obligation to leave it on the store shelves.

I'm gonna buy some when I see it in the stores...................just becasue it will pi$$ of the Peta types.

Sometimes I envy people who have no worries in life other than *****ing about gummy bears shaped like roadkill.

Then again, not really.

Better head over there in a hurry. The manufacturer has been convinced to stop its production. :eek:

Damn...............I wanted the fillet'o kitty

One of our local outspoken news commentators on the issue:


Ken Schram Commentary: Run Over By Political Correctness Again

February 28, 2005

By Ken Schram
SEATTLE - Road kill candy is dead.

Its demise is being attributed to those zealots known as animal rights activists.

Seems they didn't like road kill candy; little gummy confections in the shape of snakes, chickens and squirrels that came complete with tire marks on their flattened gelatinous bodies.

Road kill gummy candy may have been tasty, but to the purveyors of all that is politically correct, they were mostly tasteless.

Animal rights folk were just all a-twitter, saying road kill candy told kids it was OK to harm animals.

I suppose they envisioned a world of 6-year olds chomping down on flat cherry snakes while using the family cat as a skateboard hurdle.

Sadly, Kraft Foods reacted to complaints by animal rights extremists and stopped production of their road kill candy.

I expect that soon, Swedish fish will disappear from candy shelves, followed by gummy bears.

Can animal crackers be far behind?

Meanwhile, animal rights fanatics will continue to munch on sour patch kids.

That's the way of our politically correct world.

In something, somewhere, offends someone, it's doomed.

What a crock.

Goldfish anyone?

(Crackers for cryin' out loud. Goldfish crackers!)

I think someone should market PETA toilet paper............ :D