A CandyLand Easter

Here is an enormous inflatable Lindt milk chocolate bunny, outside a drugstore. 

This is only one drugstore in Canada, not to mention North America and Europe.

When a little balloon costs two dollars, imagine what this - and its thousands of POS (point-of-sale) clones must have cost -- all folded into the price of the chocolate, of course. I wonder what the homeless guy, who stands outside this store in all weather under his grimy damp  blanket, thinks of this excess?

I drove down the street after gawking at this and saw one of those Smart Cars all painted gold with huge gold bunny ears  -- a Lindt Gold Bunny car.

This is one among presumably thousands of Lindt gold bunny cars out there promoting a CandyLand Easter.

The Smart Car is environmentally worthy...but you have to wonder about the manufacture of those gigantic balloons, both the ingredients  used to manufacture them and the energy used to create them; and then about what inflates them, and the energy used to transport them all over the world. All  all that marketing money for this one promotion for a religious festival that has become more about candy than crucifixion. And all those unhappy cows who lived nasty lives to produce the milk for the chocolate.

I hope Jesus doesn't come back too soon. I don't think He'd be very happy either to see what the festival contemplating the meaning of his life & death has come down to.

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Happy Easter, newborn animals

Look at all these cute little chocolate bunnies. What a sweet sweet image--and not just because of the sugar in them.

Under that non-recyclable gold foil, these bunnies are made of milk chocolate. The milk is obtained from poor innocent cows kept in dark stalls or on ghastly milking carousels all their lives -- pumped and repumped of their milk throughout the day by cold metallic "lips." Artificially inseminated (ouch) to keep them pregnant, birthing, and lactating even after their little calves are ripped, howling, away from their mothers soon after birth.

Those poor benighted creatures provide the milk to make the milk chocolate bunnies that are oh-so-cute, and which help us to ring in the season of Easter - Oestre - Spring........ the season of newborn lambkins and newborn calves. Little lambykins that we imitate for our children with plush toys for Easter baskets, their mammalian counterparts who are destined to  sit on a platter with mint sauce. And sweet almond eyed calves who will be sent off to live a life of unadulterated torture to become plated veal.

Happy Easter newborn animals.

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