Kraft Draws Ire for Road Kill Candy

[tuvor]

Kraft Draws Ire for Road Kill Candy

TRENTON, N.J. - 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.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=1&u=/ap/road_kill_candy

[Stop_the_War]

1. I'm vegan and I say oh c'mon it's just candy...

Besides the only people interested in "roadkill candy" are rednecks.

[tuvor]

3. Thanks, I didn't want to say it first.

I owe you one! :)

PC folks have absolutely no sense of black humor.

[demnan]

2. That is disgusting!

[tuvor]

4. And that's precisely why it's funny.

IMHO, of course. IMHO.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. Because this will make kids really want to kill animals or eat roadkill.

The reason these groups are ignored on important issues is that they make a name for themselves by going after absolutely pointless problems.

[Squatch]

6. Look for bags of this candy to sprout up on Ebay

at a much higher cost, if these AR activists get their way.

[yellowcanine]

7. Animal rights activists shoot themselves in the foot again.

They really need to lighten up. It's candy. What's next - no more animal crackers, Pepperidge Farm goldfish? After all, doesn't it "send the wrong message" for a child to be able to bite the head off of an animal cracker?

[bif]

8. Get a friggin' life already!

Jeez!

[drumwolf]

9. I think the candies are damn funny.

And I think the animal-rights lobby is not doing itself any favors by picking fights of symbolism as opposed to substance.

Yeah, like roadkill candy is going to actually make me want to run over animals in the road. Uh, I think candy shaped liked roadkill is just a tad different from actual animals' bodies smashed open and bloody.