Road kill candy angers animal rights activists

CNN ^ | February 25, 2005 | Associated Press

[tomball]

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.

 

 

[followerofchrist]

"I agree with you completely. It is an idea made up by childish, sick, sadistic minds. The Lord gave us dominion over the earth and its inhabitants, but we are to treat them kindly and responsively. It is sick that some enjoy and laugh at the suffering of helpless creatures, which does not mean people who care for animals don't care more for the unborn that are murdered."

That's a Christian response, and I'm surprised there aren't more like it here. It has always struck me as odd that liberal actvists don't extend that same sensitivity to innocent unborn babies!

"This also does not mean we agree with PETA and their tactics."

The HSUS were the ones who complained, though we can assume PETAS also objects, as do many soccer moms, etc..

"One of the first characteristics of a psychopath is their cruelty to animals. Why encourage such behavior?"

Absolutely. Adults should lead by teaching compassion, not emulate the worst of adolescence. The kind of adolescent who would enjoy such roadkill candy probably would enjoy "Faces of Death" along with their satanic death metal or rap.

It is natural to be curious about animals and our job to teach them how we relate to them. As adults we need to teach kids that the critters God gave us have souls, and meaning.

[rock58seg]

I'll get right on it. Sometimes great ideas just seem to fall out of the blue.

I have long been disappointed that executions are no longer public and we don't derive the maximum benefit from ridding society of sociopaths.

[thummy]

Creative mind, not deranged. Sunmark Companies - manufacturers of SweeTarts - made road kill tablets in the mid 1970's shaped like these Gummis. Kids loved the idea but their mothers squelshed the idea in marketing focused groups. Probably whoever did the early development at Sunmark is now at this Gummi company and is recycling an idea.

[rock58seg]

Let me know how it turns out. Better yet. Let me know how your husband skins the damn thing.

Very carefully I would imagine.

[rock58seg]

You grew up in some city. Right?

[blackbart.223]

"You grew up in some city. Right?"

I think the doctor dropped him on his head when he was born.

[Monkey Face]

"Gummi "road kill" makes light of a horrible fact. Gummi road kill is the kind of thing punks on drugs who listen to death metal "trip out" on. Do you see my point? What kind of kid likes such a thing? I think it encourages the "dark side" if you get my drift."

Jeez. You sure get uptight about silly things! I like gummi anything, and I imagine my grandkids do as well, but since I know how they are being reared by their parents, I can safely say that they have no "dark side" and will probably live to recall the stink raised by people like you who have a hard time differentiating between fact and fiction.

It sounds to me like you believed too many fairy tales, and watched too much TV...both of which your parents should have told you were MAKE-BELIEVE! Like gummi candies. Get a GRIP! Your mind is falling out!

Healthy kids, who are reared in stable homes by loving parents will not turn into "punks on drugs who listen to death metal" music, just because they like gummi road kill or gummi worms. The only point I'm seeing here is the one your head.

[Gilbo_3]

IIRC, basically a pez or sweet tart like candy shaped into 'dead fish' or soda bottles etc, packaged in a little flip top plastic 'garbage can'.prolly held half the volume of a pez, for a dime ??? or 'Pop rocks' that if eaten with a soda would kill ya...man we lived on the edge...

[Duke Nukum]

I recall that now, but only seeing it on the shelf. When I was really young, we had candy cigarettes and my favorite were the gum cigarettes. And then there were candy Bullets for boys and candy Lipsticks for girls (both sweet tart-like). And I vaguely remember getting bottle caps once. It was like we went to a special candy store for that stuff. Well not the candy cigarettes but the bullets and other stuff.

I remember that about pop rocks too. Seems like that was second grade stuff, but my memory gets fuzzy as I get older.

There was this other candy I had one time, it might have been Swedish in origin 'cause we got it from neighbor kids and it was kinda cool, it was a little ball and had vugs all over it, like a pumice stone, and you put the whole thing in your mouth and sucked and the ball turned flat. I think they might have had a slight watermelon flavor.

Now I hardly eat candy. If I'm going to have chocolate, I prefer brownies or a Blizzard treat from DQ. And I don't like gummy candy.