The Australian “activists” are at it again. This time they’ve got their boxers in a bunch over a toy chicken.
SYDNEY, Australia -- A chicken toy that squawks and flaps its wings when strangled is "grossly irresponsible" and sends the wrong message to young children, a spokesman for a leading animal welfare group said Tuesday.
The toy is manufactured by a Taiwanese company and is widely available in toy and electronics stores across Australia. It is marketed for children over 3.
A product description on the Web site of Jaycar Electronics, a major Australian importer of toy, says: "Grab him by the neck and he will squawk and cluck like mad, flapping his wings and feet wildly as if he is really being choked."
Cluck Cluck Cluck...
I think that this toy is hilarious, but of course the “activists” have another take on the matter:
But Michael Beatty, a spokesman for the Queensland state branch of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the toy was "grossly irresponsible" and sent the wrong message to young children.
"What's next? Burn a cat? Shoot a dog?" Beatty said. "Children of that age are likely to turn around and try the same thing on their pet bird or even the cat or dog. Then they're going to wonder why the animal fights back."
This same group of morons would probably have a problem with kids watching Warner Brothers cartoons showing the antics of characters like Foghorn Leghorn:
More fun than a barrel full of monkeys...
Funny thing...I didn't spend much time as a kid bombing the neighborhood dogs with dynamite as a result of watching old Foghorn--you know what I mean?
If the "activists" have a problem, instead of stopping production of the toy, how about letting parents that DON'T LIKE IT exercise their option to NOT BUY IT for their kids.
Problem solved...
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