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Weight Loss Forum / General Topics / March 2005Edible Trolls Sacked
Flat-out stupidity Production of candy shaped like roadkill has come to a screeching halt before we ever got a chance to see, let alone consume, it. Kraft Foods Inc.'s decision was the result of an outcry by New Jersey animal rights activists who said the candy encouraged children to be cruel to animals. But how, we wonder. By visciously pedalling their tricycles over a neighbour's Rhode Island Red? Snuffing out Rocky and putting Bullwinkle in traction with their skateboards? Has the unregulated sale of licorice whips prompted kids to lash their schoolmates mercilessly during recess? We're puzzled. Nevertheless, Kraft plans to stop production as soon as possible and then sell off remaining inventory, a company spokesperson said. The fruity-flavoured Trolli Road Kill Gummi Candy shaped like flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels, complete with tire treads hit store shelves (though none we frequent) last summer and was supposed to be another offbeat and unusual addition to Kraft's Gummi candy line. But the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals thought differently and threatened petition drives, boycotts and letter-writing campaigns. Too bad Kraft didn't think to include flattened racoons in this collection of road kill confections. Its corporate coffers would have overflowed just from sales in Toronto. And where were the guardians of public morals, candy division, when we were scarfing back licorice "tar babies" during our childhood?  SignatureDiva ***** The Best Man For The Job Is A Woman Carol Frilegh <cma@sympatico.ca> wrote in news:050320050316470434% cma@sympatico.ca: > Flat-out stupidity > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Snuffing out Rocky and putting Bullwinkle in traction with their > skateboards? <SNIP> Kraft is probably the largest processed food products company in the world. Eating their products should be considered cruelty to animals, imho. The activists picked "Roadkill," but not the "Barnum's Animal Crackers"? There are 18 animals in that product. An aside: Thanks to Geico, I no longer swerve around squirrels, I head straight for 'em! Andy Signature"Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles!" - Ed Sullivan (1964) > An aside: Thanks to Geico, I no longer swerve around squirrels, I head > straight for 'em! LOL! Seriously though it's true, you shouldn't swerve to avoid hitting them (or deer or anything else) because the consequences of swerving could cause much more damage than hitting what you were trying to avoid. That's what the DOT and police always say in this area where deer dodging is the local pasttime. the vbchick email goes to vbchick >Seriously though it's true, you shouldn't swerve to avoid hitting them (or >deer or anything else) because the consequences of swerving could cause much >more damage than hitting what you were trying to avoid. That's what the DOT >and police always say in this area where deer dodging is the local pasttime. once i was returning home from my mom's house, i was with a friend and we were on a state highway, and it was dark. no lights on the road; this was in the country. we were driving along, there was another car about eh, forty feet ahead of us. my friend and i were just talking when i suddenly exclaimed, "OH, F**K!" she said, "what is it?" about the time that we felt the deer scraping the underside of the truck. i was driving a chevy s-10 at the time; luckily not the honda civic i now drive. there was a dead deer in the dead center of my lane. i didn't have time to swerve, because the driver ahead of me went right over the deer, too (there must have been someone ahead of him). and you know, this was a two lane highway (one going each direction), so if i actually had swerved, i would have either gone off the road, or into oncoming traffic. david >>Seriously though it's true, you shouldn't swerve to avoid hitting them (or >>deer or anything else) because the consequences of swerving could cause [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > direction), so if i actually had swerved, i would have either > gone off the road, or into oncoming traffic. I've never hit one but my DH has hit 2, both on busy roads with oncoming traffic. I've witnessed many car-deer collisions and it's not pleasant for anyone. On Thursday night, two cars had a head on collision on the main road near my house - one driver swerved to avoid a deer. Both drivers came out without serious injury due to airbags but the fire dept said neither would have survived without the airbag. I once had a deer coming toward me from the left and slowed down and braced myself for the impact. Lucky for me it decided to jump the hood of my truck and was going fast enough to clear it. Oh, if you know you're going to hit something and have an airbag, try to slide your hands to the lower quadrantsof the steering wheel. It's instinct to tense up and sometimes the airbag impact can break your arms if they're in the way. Signaturethe vbchick email goes to vbchick <ALL GOOD STUFF SNIPPED FOR BRIEVITY> One time my ex-wife and I were driving down the road home and there was this bloody roadkill I slowed down and avoided. My ex asked what it was and I said it as an opossum. She actually asked "Is it dead?" and I replied "no, it's just playing dead." She laugh/cried and then punched me in the shoulder. Served me right for trying to interject a little humor into roadkill. One of my hobbies is listening to the wide-band scanner. I hear roadkill comms all the time. And if you call the game commission fast enough and get permission, you get to scrape it up and have it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. No nutritional labels on those, afaik. Have a nice day, Andy > <ALL GOOD STUFF SNIPPED FOR BRIEVITY> > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > She actually asked "Is it dead?" and I replied "no, it's just playing > dead." LOL Signaturethe vbchick email goes to vbchick >I've never hit one but my DH has hit 2, both on busy roads with oncoming >traffic. I've witnessed many car-deer collisions and it's not pleasant for >anyone. On Thursday night, two cars had a head on collision on the main >road near my house - one driver swerved to avoid a deer. Both drivers came >out without serious injury due to airbags but the fire dept said neither >would have survived without the airbag. my mom had a colleague who hit a deer. i don't know how fast she was going, but apparently she hit the deer and knocked it down in the road, and before she could brake, ran over the deer. ew. >I once had a deer coming toward me from the left and slowed down and braced >myself for the impact. Lucky for me it decided to jump the hood of my truck >and was going fast enough to clear it. Oh, if you know you're going to hit >something and have an airbag, try to slide your hands to the lower >quadrantsof the steering wheel. It's instinct to tense up and sometimes the >airbag impact can break your arms if they're in the way. i've heard about the arm breakage thing. painful, but i'd imagine it's better than being dead (you know, having never been dead before). david >>I've never hit one but my DH has hit 2, both on busy roads with oncoming >>traffic. I've witnessed many car-deer collisions and it's not pleasant [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > was going, but apparently she hit the deer and knocked it down in > the road, and before she could brake, ran over the deer. ew. Most of the time it's not the initial driver that runs it over but the cars directly behind it or the ones coming from the other direction. I stopped to help a woman who hit one this fall (worst time because of rutting) and the animal was not dead. We couldn't get it out of the road before more cars came and a panel truck finished it off. In a way that was a blessing because the police took a long time to get there, neither of us had a gun in our vehicles, and it would have been illegal for either of us to shoot it and put it out of its misery. I still get very sad when I witness these things or even seeing the dead deer on the side of the road though I did get some great photos of a bald eagle gutting a dead deer once. Signaturethe vbchick email goes to vbchick |
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