Animal Rights and Candy?

Here's a news story from CNN about animal rights people getting their proverbial panties in a bunch over a new roadkill candy.

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

I can see why the animal rights people would get upset. They're always trying to indoctrinate little children over animal "rights" and having kids eat this kind of candy would probably set back their cause. The problem is that the kids that would be attracted to this kind of candy, and there would be kids that would think this candy is cool, are probably the least likely to think that roadkill should be protected as having rights.

The candy doesn't really send a message to kids, as the NJSPCA spokesman believes. What I'd like to know is how many people get into accidents in trying to avoid animals in the road. What about that?

In the end, Kraft will probably pull the candy as the special interest group will probably be effective enough to stop the distribution of the candy. Of course, this won't have any tangible effects on cruelty to animals or roadkill at all. But the SPCA will still consider this a victory.