Cage Free Crackers

Thanks to the thoughtful people over at PETA - after 116 years of captivity - animal crackers have been emancipated.  Yup, freed from their cages.  That's right.  Animal crackers are in the news.  
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals argued that the portrayal of the ubiquitous Barnum traveling circus of animal crackers confined behind bars was cruel and unusual punishment.  PETA’s argument was that the cracker animals ‘have no semblance of a natural life’.  As a consequence Mondelez - owner of Nabisco Brands – set them free.      

The new boxes are already arriving in stores this week. They show a zebra, an elephant, a lion, a giraffe and a gorilla roaming free, side-by-side, in peaceful harmony, upon a beautiful, sweeping African savanna.     

What someone should remind PETA about is that they have set free both predator and prey.  That zebra is going to get the short end of the stick from the lion.  So much for cruel and unusual punishment….