Roadkill Gummies

[TheBellhop]

I found this both interesting and funny...see for yourself:

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

 

[MrsKreamer]

Yeah, OK it sends the wrong message....
Roadkill is accidental, not intential and certainly not animal cruelty. It's not like a take my camry offraods looking for animal to run over.

 

[DawnCt1]

I don't know why PETA is so upset about these. They are Dead!! It is so much better than eating intact, "alive" gummie bears, or animal crackers, etc. I remember when I was little feeling bad when I bit the heads off of my animal crackers.

 

[MrsKreamer]

I don't know why PETA is so upset about these. They are Dead!! It is so much better than eating intact, "alive" gummie bears, or animal crackers, etc. I remember when I was little feeling bad when I bit the heads off of my animal crackers.

 

[TheBellhop]

I wonder what flavor they are....O.O

 

[roger_ramjet]

Besides the obvious point about the message it sends - the whole idea itself strikes me as being pointless and entirely devoid of rational thought. Roadkill jellies? What sort of mushrooms were being consumed to come up with that idea?!

 

[Dakota_Lynn]

My daughter thinks they are a hoot and she would rather cut of her right arm than to harm an animal. She won't even kill a bug. Sure, they are strange, but no more strange than gummy worms and bugs and stuff. Kids like them. Honestly, I don't think they send a message that cruelty to animals is good, right, or funny. It's just silly kid's stuff.

 

[Margie J]

What a crazy thing for people to get all upset about. I also think it's silly kid's stuff. Gummies come in all sorts of wild, stupid colors and shapes. I doubt eating a roadkill snake gummy will make a kid think "yeah, I want to run over a real snake now".

Kids have been watching cartoons with animal characters being run over and blown up for years, like in the Roadrunner. Most get it's a joke. The Roadkill gummies are the same IMO.

 

[cynsaun]

What a crazy thing for people to get all upset about. I also think it's silly kid's stuff. Gummies come in all sorts of wild, stupid colors and shapes. I doubt eating a roadkill snake gummy will make a kid think "yeah, I want to run over a real snake now".

Kids have been watching cartoons with animal characters being run over and blown up for years, like in the Roadrunner. Most get it's a joke.

I completely agree with this statement.

I actually saw a new candy that looks exactly like pebbles. That to me is a lot more disturbing than a gummy candy shaped like road kill. A child can tell the difference between a tiny gummy candy and a real dead animal in the road, however, a child may not be able to tell the difference between the pebbles that are candy and real pebbles.

 

[denisem]

I find the concept of roadkill gummies a hoot. Stuff happens in nature.

This is coming from a snake-hater who's currently tryin' to determine whether the benefits of the southern black racer in my yard wins over him eating MY anoles!

Denise < --- won't even discuss how our new kitten will rule our lives

 

[BrerLizzie]

those are tasty. That's so weird that they send a bad mesage. I ate a whole bunch of them and I don't have the sudden urge to go run over animals. Maybe they've never tasted them.

 

[Twinkles6892]

What a crazy thing for people to get all upset about. I also think it's silly kid's stuff. Gummies come in all sorts of wild, stupid colors and shapes. I doubt eating a roadkill snake gummy will make a kid think "yeah, I want to run over a real snake now".

Kids have been watching cartoons with animal characters being run over and blown up for years, like in the Roadrunner. Most get it's a joke. The Roadkill gummies are the same IMO.

I wish more kids would go out and run over snakes. Yuck!