When will "animal rights activists" get one life?

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/25/roadkill.candy.ap/index.html
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.

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."

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm waiting for the serial killer victim gummi candies.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.happybeagle.com/shelbysblog/images/hh/gummi-eyes.jpg

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Dead president gummis would be even better.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked it when they had those blue sharks marketed as "Gummi Lawyers".

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Brutal Dictator Gummis!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi Vegans!

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi Fox News Reporters!

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

gummi eyeballs=waaaaay grosser than gummi roadkill

though really gummi anything that isn't a bear is fucked up beyond belief.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi Dursts!

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Tsk tsk, now how long before our favorite animal rights activist takes you to task for being hypocritical Manics fans, I ask you...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It is pretty much a useless idea for a candy. Can't they figure out a different way to get mommy and daddy to dispose of their money?

WE NEED MORE OFFBEAT CANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi Emma Bunton!

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Then we need a Gummi Geri too! Posh would be too tough and leathery though, maybe she could be a fruit rollup.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Fish and Wildlife killed a tiger Wednesday in Moorpark. That was sort of sad. Sorry, off topic.

― youn, Friday, 25 February 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi Lads' Mags!

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi Calums!

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Tit, meet tat.

When will people who support Kraft over "animal rights activists" get one life?

I'm nowhere close to being an animal-righter, but Kraft is way far from being "wholesome".

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree w/the sentiments of the thread title, but I have to wonder what kind of fucktard would sit down at a product design meeting and say "hey guys, I have this great idea, candies in the shape of squashed animals!!" I mean WTF?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

... is just seems kind of ostentatiously in some kind of way that there are people who are paid handsomely to think up such WORTHLESS concepts!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember there used to be a candy called skull crushers, which were white chocolate skulls filled with raspberry liquid. Those were cooler and gorier than plain old roadkill.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Shouldn't the animal rights activists be happy that children are eating a safe, vegetarian form of roadkill instead of the actual animals?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

ostentatiously STUPID in some way. I wish I could type s.th. in w/o so many mistakes, argh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

gummi animal-rights-activist-roadkill!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I think gummi's use marrow = not vegetarian.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Animal crackers encourage kids to eat animals right out of their cages. Where's your PETA now?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi candy isn't vegetarian. Gelatin = beef bones
As a kid, the idea of "roadkill" was a constant supply of giggles/humor.
KIDS LOVE GROSS STUFF

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Then gummi dursts is definitely the way to go.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi incurable diseases!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

we want to gross them out not make them vomit all over themselves copiously!

uh xpost

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi Razor Blades!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi candy isn't vegetarian. Gelatin = beef bones

Yeah, I know, it's the one lapse I allow myself as a vegetarian.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi Poisonous Insects!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi Concentration Camp!

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Die Tieraktivisten sind ziemlich populaer wegen Supermodellen wie ich!

Guck mal! Has P.E.T.A. gone too far this time? Brainwashing poor Heidi Klum?

― Heidi_Klum, Friday, 25 February 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I got drunk in Port Costa last month and seriously contemplated the liberation of some lobsters, right in front of a bunch of surly redneck regulars. Cooler heads prevailed and dissuaded me... I was going to run straight to the bay and set them free!

― andy --, Friday, 25 February 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Carrots scream when you pull them out of the ground, etc

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"...there are people who are paid handsomely to think up such WORTHLESS concepts!! "

tis the real tragedy here. they rake it in and meanwhile, i, who am obviously much much cooler and better all-around, sit all day here at the paper and talk to people on the phone who call to ask if the horoscopes are real or made up. where's the justice, PETA?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

if it's useless and not sports, it's art.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi bears:

ihttp://bonmot.ca/~daniel/pics/dnm_020602_gummi.jpg

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Kenan, I hate you.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

OMGWTF R U TRYING TO GET ME FIRED KENAN U FAGTOG?!?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

There are visions on this thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It sends the wrong message to children, that it's OK to harm animals.

No! It sends the message that you should clean up after yourself. If you it a cat, don't just leave it lying there, ffs. Take it home.

(In Tennessee a few years ago, there was a big debate over a Roadkill Bill making it legal to eat what you run over. It passed.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread makes me want a big bag of gummis.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

They have gummi green army men, that's more disturbing somehow.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi Detainees

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

with Gummi Electrodes connected to their Gummi Genitalia

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Gummi Negroponte

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Hang on, we eat jelly (gummi) BABIES all the time, why isnt anyone saying thats fucked up? WE EAT BABIES FFS

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 26 February 2005 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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we're here! we're queer! we don't want anymore bears!

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Didn't some research students hang banners out of the windows of the Chemistry Research Lab building (next to the building site) recently, saying "we boil monkey cocks" or something, as a joke? They got into a bit of trouble for it, I gather.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

REAL SCIENCE

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

The funny thing is, here in theoretical physics, there are some people doing some pretty weird stuff that isn't considered REAL SCIENCE by some of their colleagues. Not me though. I am 4 REAL.

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Maybe then you can tell me the effects that DARK MATTER will have on my soup in the microwave?

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

It won't MATTER!

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Phew. I don't want any expanding multiverses in my parsnip soup. That would be bad.

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

but would it expand in a boiling pot of water with a live lobster in it?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

That would be cruel.

Also, it wouldn't work with a hairy lobster because the fillaments would diffuse the heat into other curled-up dimensions.

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Lobster's filaments = four dimensional manifestation of eleven-dimensional superstrings.

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Better than M-Theory... Mike-Theory - physics you can eat!

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

They're back. Quite a few this time. Maybe a hundred, instead of the usual half dozen. This seems to be an official demonstration."Stop the Oxford Animal Lab", I assume they shout. I can't hear them because I've got the Chelsea game on my headphones. Some of them are quite fit.

― Mike W (caek), Saturday, 25 March 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Make sure you look like you are doing some real science this go-round. I'll see if I can summon a thunderstorm. A little girl at the grocery last night pointed me out to her mother and said, "Look mommy! An X-Man!" so I think I've got some powers I'm unaware of. Your story made me want the true superpower that is a MEGAPHONE, tho.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

The pro-test was kinda droll, I think.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

PETA Killed 97 Percent of 'Companion Animals' in 2006, According to VDACS

Death toll up to 17,400; overdue report describes PETA's deadliest year ever
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An official report from People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), submitted nine months after a Virginia government agency's deadline, shows that the animal rights group put to death more than 97 percent of the dogs, cats, and other pets it took in for adoption in 2006. During that year, the well-known animal rights group managed to find adoptive homes for just 12 pets. The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is calling on PETA to either end its hypocritical angel-of-death program, or stop its senseless condemnation of Americans who believe it's perfectly ethical to use animals for food, clothing, and critical medical research.
Not counting animals PETA held only temporarily in its spay-neuter program, the organization took in 3,061 "companion animals" in 2006, of which it killed 2,981. According to Virginia's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), the average euthanasia rate for humane societies in the state was just 34.7 percent in 2006. PETA killed 97.4 percent of the animals it took in. The organization filed its 2006 report this month, nine months after the VDACS deadline of March 31, 2007.
"Pet lovers should be outraged," said CCF Director of Research David Martosko. "There are thousands of worthwhile animal shelters that deserve Americans' support. PETA is not one of them."
In courtroom testimony last year, a PETA manager acknowledged that her organization maintains a large walk-in freezer for storing dead animals, and that PETA contracts with a Virginia cremation service to dispose of the bodies. In that trial, two PETA employees were convicted of dumping dead animals in a rural North Carolina trash dumpster.
Today in Southampton County, Virginia, another PETA employee will face felony charges in a dog-napping case. Andrea Florence Benoit Harris was arrested in late 2006 for allegedly abducting a hunting dog and attempting to transport it to PETA's Norfolk headquarters.
"PETA raised over $30 million last year," Martosko added, "and it's using that money to kill the only flesh-and-blood animals its employees actually see. The scale of PETA's hypocrisy is simply staggering."

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

I keep getting surprised that it is news that PETA is fucked up. but that virginia shelter is kind of locally famous for being a death camp

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

lolololololololololololololol

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/images/PetaFreezerPKA.gif

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

$4K in costumes, huh?

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://fishinghurts.com/pdfs/DaddyKillsAnimals.pdf

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

Freeda the Fish Costumes - 825.00

― Michael White, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

woah, I want that sweet-ass skull lure

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

you realize you're reposting a press release from a tobacco / fast food / meat company astroturf group?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://sth.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/4/438

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

lololololol I didn't see the second page of the brochure!!!!!!!!!!!!! lololololol wau

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

CCF doesn't misrepresent itself half as bad as PETA does
PETA's on the news right now! apparently their latest campaign is about neutering your own children

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

i agree peta is kinda fucked.

but common, a big tobacco funded front group?? isn't that as disingenuous as you can possibly get

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2006

They get the 97% by factoring out the animals reclaimed by their owners.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

ha! still a 50% kill rate though

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

Also lol PETA totally ate the poultry, who are we kidding here?

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

so do they normally leave a note for the owner when they kidnap people's dogs and cats?

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

yeah rly soy chicken my balls

― omar little, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

searching CNN for PETA stories is awesome:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/09/execution.pizza/index.html?iref=newssearch

Cliff Tredway, the director of public relations for the Rescue Mission, said it's more than pizzas that helped that shelter.

"It's the story of a guy whose execution translated into a generous act," he said. "It's people donating to other people they don't know.

"It's about a group of people who society often writes off getting a pizza party today."

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

ahahaha

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

pizza party such a great phrase

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

i have always enjoyed it

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

(Watch homeless feast on piles of pizza http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/main/icon_video.gif)

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

piles of pizza

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fvftxql5ldde

sadly, i can't find the cover online.

― ian, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

but common, a big tobacco funded front group?? isn't that as disingenuous as you can possibly get

I'm hoping they'll cancel each other out. Same thing I'm hoping for fundies and Dawkins followers.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

Why is a big tobacco group fucking with PETA?

― milo z, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

Why is a big tobacco group fucking with PETA?

I didn't think that CCF was taking cash from Big Tobacco. According to them, they're...

The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit coalition of restaurants, food companies, and consumers working together to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices.
The growing cabal of "food cops," health care enforcers, militant activists, meddling bureaucrats, and violent radicals who think they know "what's best for you" are pushing against our basic freedoms. We're here to push back.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 01:09 (eighteen years ago)

Okay all those times when I have defended PETA on ILE? Let this serve as an official notice that I'm off the train.

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/22/justice/ohio-anti-fur-plot-arrest/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

holy shit!

― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:57 (fourteen years ago)

I'd better go pull down that fake facebook page to solicit cocaine.

― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

ten months pass...

psycho!

http://gawker.com/5976473/arson-cracked-testicles-and-internet-death-threats-how-animal-rights-extremists-are-learning-from-the-people-who-murdered-george-tiller?tag=terror

― Mordy, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 23:50 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

dunno if this is being discussed elsewhere but this is a big moment for animal rights:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/chimpanzees-granted-legal-persons-status-unlawful-imprisonment

― yeovil knievel (NickB), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:05 (ten years ago)

seems like reasonably self aware animals have as much a right to personhood as corporations do

― head clowning instructor (art), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:12 (ten years ago)

seems questionable, how much money do they make

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:14 (ten years ago)

or perhaps I should say "how much value do they create"

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:14 (ten years ago)

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