Well, I suppose it had to happen; there’s an arm’s race going on Anti-Zombie Easter chocolates.

Groan:

Can’t get your hands on a zombie chocolate Easter bunny? Don’t panic! While Think Geek can’t keep their awesome undead chocolate bunnies in stock, Oregon’s Lillie Belle Farms makes organic zombie chocolate bunnies to order — *and* you can choose either white chocolate or milk chocolate! Voodoo Bunnies first came to unlife as Halloween chocolates, but the online store has them available for order now.

I mean, on the face of it, does a Zombie chocolate bunny *have* to be Anti-Zombie? Is it Anti-Zombie to sell products bearing the occasional bloody wound? I suppose it depends on the intent of the chocolate maker, right? If the intention was to display the occasional wounds that Zombies might bear as marks of Zombie Pride, like our own Tim does, as a positive example of inclusiveness, that would be a good thing, after all.

So let’s go to their site and see what they have to say:

voodoo bunny

These things are disgusting! but oh so incredible. Each one is hand carved and individually designed for maximum effect. The effect being total zombie annihilation!

We only love you for your brains, get over it!

while they are technically edible, we don’t recommend it…

also….these are all custom made. If you place an order we will need to decapitate/mutilate the poor thing to order.
So be patient, it will get there.

One of the worst parts of this, aside from the pointless cruel mutilation of chocolate Zombies I mean, is that yet again we’re seeing an egregious case of American Pop Culture Zombie Syndrome. Voodoo-resurrected Zombies don’t have any particular hunger for brains; the vast majority of Zombies do not, in fact, have such a hunger.

But everyone thinks they do.

So here we have pointless cruelty directed at Zombies, and it’s not even the ‘correct’ variety of Zombie Chocolate Bunny!

Which may qualify as one of the weirdest things I’ve ever written for this blog.

The Zombie Rights Campaign, after evaluating the context of these foodstuffs, awards them our lowest and most shameful rating, that of Living Supremacist.

After all, they come from, and reinforce, profoundly negative stereotypes, and the website officially calls for ‘total zombie annihilation’.

It doesn’t get much more Living Supremacist than that.

Tags: Anti-Zombie Products, ZRC Reviews

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