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Redesigned graphics free the beasts on Animals Crackers box

Under pressure from PETA, MondelΔ“z International’s Nabisco-brand Barnum’s Animals Crackers box ditches the circus boxcar graphics and delivers a more contemporary look.

Under pressure from PETA, Mondelēz International’s Nabisco-brand Barnum’s Animals Crackers box ditches the circus boxcar graphics and delivers a more contemporary look.
Under pressure from PETA, MondelΔ“z International’s Nabisco-brand Barnum’s Animals Crackers box ditches the circus boxcar graphics and delivers a more contemporary look.

Political correctness has reared its head even in the cookie aisle, where redesigned packaging graphics on the colorful box of MondelΔ“z International’s Nabisco-brand Barnum’s Animals Crackers note a β€œNEW LOOK, Same Great Taste!”

The venerable kid’s snack, which reportedly has been around for 116 years, features new front-and-back-panel graphics depicting a zebra, elephant, lion, giraffe, and gorilla wandering freely. Gone are the boxcar cages that held the animals in the iconic box’s previous graphics. Those graphics, and the product’s name itself, emanated from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which ceased operations in 2017, reportedly from a combination of weakening sales, high operating costs, and pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA.

The vibrant graphic redesign spruces up the box, which includes a convenient carry handle, but as many media outlets have reported, the change is linked to pressure from PETA to β€œfree” the beasts from those boxcar cages. An Aug. 21 AP report noted, β€œMondelΔ“z International, the parent company of Nabisco, has redesigned the packaging of its Barnum’s Animals crackers in response 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 MondelΔ“z in the spring of 2016 calling for a redesign.”

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