From BBC NEWS:
US food giant Kraft has decided to halt production of sweets shaped like roadkill – animals run over by cars.
Animal rights activists criticised the product, fruit-flavoured Trolli Roadkill Gummi candy, saying it encouraged acts of cruelty.
New Jersey’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NJSPCA) had threatened petitions, boycotts and letter campaigns to stop the product.
OK, so this wasn’t the best idea Kraft ever had, but why do people take this stuff seriously? Are little kids going to go out and run over puppies and kittens because of their candy? I don’t think so. They may go out and run over puppies and kittens because lots of kids are sadistic little monsters, but their candy is probably not a factor.
I think I liked it better when these people were the “silent majority.”