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TRENTON, N.J. (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-flavoured 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."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...10&u=/ap/20050225/ap_on_re_us/road_kill_candy

"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,"

Eh? You are owned by a tobacco company, what the fuck do you know about wholesome values?

 

[Tuvoc]

I remember seeing these in a grocery store and I wondered when someone(or some group) was gonna bitch.

 

[belgurdo]

America makes Belgurdo cry

 

[Shig]

Wouldn't consuming imaginary dead animals be considered more humane than eating imaginary live ones?

 

[dem]

Man
People are annoying



Remember when we had candy cigarettes that blew out a puff of dust that looked like smoke? That was the stuff.

 

[Lucky Forward]

It's not the first time the ASPCA got worked up about something stupid. From the imdb.com trivia for The Shawshank Redemption:

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals monitored the filming of scenes involving Brooks' crow. During the scene where he fed it a maggot, the ASPCA objected on the grounds that it was cruel to the maggot, and required that they use a maggot that had died from natural causes. One was found, and the scene was filmed.

 

[Shig]

Oh. my. god. That has to be most anal retentive thing in history ever.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

i have GOT to get my hands on a few hundred multi mega-ton nukes......