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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 25

    A sign of the times: After more than a century behind bars, the beasts on boxes of animal crackers are roaming free. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/barnum-animal-crackers-box-nabisco-mondelez-international-boxes-get-new-look-animals-freed/ …pic.twitter.com/w0SAV9vDsf

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      1. Ivan Kenneally‏ @IvanKenneally Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @JoyceCarolOates

        In a more realistic rendering, they’d be tearing each other apart.

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      2. Bryan Jones‏ @bpjauburn Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        That zebra is toast

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      3. Brian Berneker‏ @brianberneker Aug 26
        Replying to @bpjauburn @sapinker

        Mmmmm zebra toast!

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      1. Ryan Cooke‏ @FlareBehr Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        It now looks like a Celestial Seasoning Box

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      1. Arman Rijsewijk‏ @atomicarman Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Great improvement on the Zeitgeist! Next stop: prevent this type of cages in the real world.

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      2. jInzæsckhkö‏ @sckhko Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        I'm sort of OCD, and the box says, "Do not eat if the seal is broken". When my Dad came back from Special Operations I didn't eat for four months.

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      3. Brian Berneker‏ @brianberneker Aug 26
        Replying to @sckhko @sapinker

        Imagine if one of the animal crackers was a seal!

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      4. jInzæsckhkö‏ @sckhko Aug 26
        Replying to @brianberneker @sapinker

        Imagine it was BROKEN. like my father.

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      5. Brian Berneker‏ @brianberneker Aug 26
        Replying to @sckhko @sapinker

        Cookie inception

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      1. peacebee Ⓥ  🌊 🐝‏ @kindlee55 Aug 26
        Replying to @sapinker

        As a #Vegan I feel I was a part of making this happen. Thank you animal crackers. #AnimalWelfare

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      1. Charles Trzcinka‏ @ctrzcinka Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Real animals would attack the weaker and eat them.

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      1. Bruce Lambert‏ @bruce_lambert Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Rights revolution reaches cookies.

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      1. Dr. Ryan McCourt‏ @MarcCountry Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Also, notice that they’ve removed the bearded lady and human cannonball...

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      1. George Benedik‏ @GBenedik Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Great. What’s next? Ritalin for SpongeBob?

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      1. John J Paventy‏ @JJPaventy Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @JoyceCarolOates

        Hope they keep the string...on the Christmas tree every year.

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      1. Blair MacGregor‏ @blairmacgregor Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        as a kid bribed with these every time my mom dragged me to the grocery store, this was unquestionably the most important news of the week. :)

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      1. Freddy Dultra‏ @FreddyDultra Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Should we spend time giving attention and clicks to this nonsense???

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      1. Everything is stupid.‏ @BigBallBaron Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        They've gone savage

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      2. Bob Armstrong‏ @bobarmsnovelist Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        This is one change that really doesn't merit that "those SJWs are going crazy" treatment. Isn't it nicer, more educational even, for kids to imagine animals in the wild? And cages have been getting phased out of zoos for 40-50 years.

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      3. Varga‏ @TravisVarga Aug 25
        Replying to @bobarmsnovelist @sapinker

        I’m not against zoos, but you mean the cages have become more sophisticated?

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      4. Bob Armstrong‏ @bobarmsnovelist Aug 25
        Replying to @TravisVarga @sapinker

        Larger, designed to mimic natural surroundings and increasingly bar-free at most zoos. Anyway, I'd never even heard of Barnum's Animals until last week. I think in Canada they've always just been Animal Crackers for as long as I can remember.

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