Kraft draws ire for road kill candy
Road kill candy angers animal rights activists. Kraft: ‘We didn’t mean to offend anyone’
Contact Kraft: Stop Selling Roadkill Gummie Candies
Damn it; where did I put my tinfoil helmet? It sounds like the voices are coming back. While my tinfoil helmet protects me from the rogue trasmissions from Planet Reebok, it’s beginning to sound as if more than a few maroons could benefit by spending a little bit more time in the Orgasmatron and a little bit less trolling for something to vent their righteous anger over.
How about we get a grip, y’all? WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CAT LITTER, willya?? This is CANDY we’re talking about, not child pornography, not child abuse, not random/senseless violence. CANDY. Get over yourselves, already…or is it that, having solved all of the other problems facing us, we have now decided that the ONLY remaining problem worthy of our righteous indignation is candy- and bad candy at that??
How far off the deep end have animal rights activist gone when the biggest “issue” they can find to focus their considerable ire on is roadkill Gummi candy? I normally am a big supporter of groups like PETA, but it would appear that we have exited the sublime, only to become firmly entrenched in the realm of the (thoroughly) ridiculous.
In an effort to provide myself with a quick reality check, I ran this by Susan, who generally tends to be a good deal more reasonable than I. Her reaction was much the same as mine: “Don’t these people have anything else going on in their lives worth worrying about? These folks really need to get a life.” I couldn’t agree more, m’dear….
Look, if there was a legitimate problem here, I would be the first nutcase in line demanding that something be done. Realistically, though, let’s keep in mind that we’re talking about candy with all of the flavor of a pencil eraser and a texture to match. I’m sorry, but Gummi ANYTHING is some nasty $&@#….
There are far more serious issues out there when it comes to unwittingly selling violence to children. Don’t you think that this is something that we could legitimately leave to parents, though? After all, part of the responsibility incumbent in parenting is shielding children from bad influences. If a parent thinks that roadkill Gummis promote cruelty toward animals, a parent has the right, nay, the responsibility to refrain from buying the product for their children.
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.
Man, I have to wonder what what this world is coming to when a candy with the taste and consistency of an eraser is seen as a threat to animals. Ya know, Ethel, them roadkill Gummis are right tasty…but I have this uncontrollable urge to slam a few brewskis and go run over some armadillas wi’ mah truck….
What lunacy….
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