Animal crackers' animals "freed"

[Non-Typical Solutions]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/barnum-animal-crackers-box-nabisco-mondelez-international-boxes-get-new-look-animals-freed/

 

After more than a century behind bars, the beasts on boxes of animal crackers are roaming free.

Mondelez International, the parent company of Nabisco, has redesigned the packaging of its Barnum's Animals crackers after relenting to pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

PETA, which has been protesting the use of animals in circuses for more than 30 years, wrote a letter to Mondelez in the spring of 2016 calling for a redesign.

"Given the egregious cruelty inherent in circuses that use animals and the public's swelling opposition to the exploitation of animals used for entertainment, we urge Nabisco to update its packaging in order to show animals who are free to roam in their natural habitats," PETA said in its letter.

Mondelez agreed and started working on a redesign. In the meantime, the crackers' namesake circus - Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey - folded for good. The 146-year-old circus, which had removed elephants from its shows in 2016 because of pressure from PETA and others, closed down in May 2017 due to slow ticket sales.

Aug. 20, 2018, photo shows boxes of Nabisco's Barnum's Animals crackers in Chicago with former design

 AP

The redesign of the boxes, now on U.S. store shelves, retains the familiar red and yellow coloring and prominent "Barnum's Animals" lettering. But instead of showing the animals in cages - implying that they're traveling in boxcars for the circus - the new boxes feature a zebra, elephant, lion, giraffe and gorilla wandering side-by-side in a grassland. The outline of acacia trees can be seen in the distance.

"When PETA reached out about Barnum's, we saw this as another great opportunity to continue to keep this brand modern and contemporary," said Jason Levine, Mondelez's chief marketing officer for North America, in a statement.

Mondelez is based in Illinois, which passed a statewide ban on circuses with elephants that went into effect in January. More than 80 U.S. cities have fully or partially banned circuses with wild animals, according to Animal Defenders International.

PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman says she's celebrating the box redesign for the cultural change it represents.

"The new box for Barnum's Animals crackers perfectly reflects that our society no longer tolerates the caging and chaining of wild animals for circus shows," she said.

Nabisco has been making Barnum's Animals crackers since 1902. It has redesigned its boxes before, but only for limited-time special editions. In 1995, it offered an endangered species collection that raised money for the World Wildlife Fund. In 1997, it offered a zoo collection that raised money for the American Zoo and Aquarium Association. And in 2010, it worked with designer Lilly Pulitzer on a pastel-colored box that raised money for tiger conservation.

The company won't say how many boxes it sells each year. Canadian boxes already had a different design and aren't affected.

[ctafoya]

The world is going to $h!t in a hurry. I just need a few more years to pay for all of my toys, then I'm disappearing to the mountains forever. 

[wildwoody]

Crazy shxt right there.

[Non-Typical Solutions]

56 minutes ago, ctafoya said:

The world is going to $h!t in a hurry. I just need a few more years to pay for all of my toys, then I'm disappearing to the mountains forever. 

I told my wife the same thing last night.....got in a fight with my cable company and SLing because all the sudden I don't get my Dback games.....both companies telling me the other company is responsible for my geolocation getting hacked by a third party company....blah, blah, blah.........what the heal is a geolocation, I just want to watch a baseball game!!!

[300RUM]

Are free-range animal crackers supposed to be healthier for you?

[muledeerarea33?]

Yet children still continue to eat them, play in the back seat of the car with their siblings, acting like their crackers are fighting until the dramatic finish....., they bite the heads off!!! Children are still murdering these poor defenseless  and endangered animal shaped crackers!!! 

[AZ8]

3 hours ago, ctafoya said:

The world is going to $h!t in a hurry. I just need a few more years to pay for all of my toys, then I'm disappearing to the mountains forever. 

Man, I'm right behind you. 

[muledeerarea33?]

Better regulate Swedish Fish next! Don’t want to over harvest the waters of Sweden! Let’s ban gummy bears too! Or at least make people call a hotline before buying them. Hope all the red ones aren’t eatin yet, you’ll only have til Wednesday to buy more!

[lancetkenyon]

18 hours ago, muledeerarea33? said:

Yet children still continue to eat them, play in the back seat of the car with their siblings, acting like their crackers are fighting until the dramatic finish....., they bite the heads off!!! Children are still murdering these poor defenseless  and endangered animal shaped crackers!!! 

I STILL do this!!!

[dmoto]

22 hours ago, Non-Typical Solutions said:

I told my wife the same thing last night.....got in a fight with my cable company and SLing because all the sudden I don't get my Dback games.....both companies telling me the other company is responsible for my geolocation getting hacked by a third party company....blah, blah, blah.........what the heal is a geolocation, I just want to watch a baseball game!!!

You may want to setup a VPN to run your Sling and other streaming devices. By doing that and routing it thru another location (eg. Texas). That should "geo-locate" you to another area to where you should be able to get D-Backs games.