Yoplait: Maker of the Critter Torture/Death Cup

I'm pretty peeved at General Mills. When I was out running, today, I happened upon a squirrel whose head was completely encased in one of those tapered yogurt cups. The squirrel had just narrowly escaped being squashed by cars and trucks as it dashed across a busy street before crashing into a curb and catapulting itself onto the running path. Luckily, the critter had the sense to hold still while I slowly extricated its head from the yogurt cup (the actual death cap, pictured above). It shot away into the bushes before I had a chance to see if its neck had been lacerated by the sharp, inward-pointing edge of the opening.

There's been a bit of static on this topic; the Animal Protection Institute wrote an article back in 1999, This is Broken, a website put up by Mark Hurst included an article about how the yogurt cup is a bad design (it was a commenter who brought up the wildlife-unfriendly design), an archive at a website called Lopolis comments on the cup's deadliness.

I dunno. I don't eat the stuff, anyhow, because it has way too much sugar in it. (Ingredients: cultured pasteurized grade A low fat milk, SUGAR, strawberries, modified corn starch, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, whey protein concentrate, kiwis, kosher gelatin, colored with beet juice concentrate, citric acid, tricalcium phosphate, pectin, NATURAL FLAVOR, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3.

Yummy.

The inside of this Yoplait death cap doesn't smell like strawberries, though. It smells like rancid squirrel's breath (I had to see if the critter really had reason to shove his face in there....apparently not.)
Alright. Quick reality check. When was the last time you crushed the Yoplait container when you were done with it? Never, right? Believe it or not, General Mills would like you to think that it's YOUR fault that that darned squirrel's head got stuck in there. If you had only crushed the container when you were through....yeah, the red print on the container says

PROTECT WILDLIFE
CRUSH CUP BEFORE DISPOSAL

Why wait until disposal? Why not right after you're done eating the stuff? Because you can't get all of the yogurt out of the cup with a spoon and if you try getting the rest out with your finger, you'll cut your finger up!! Yeah, that's a sharp edge there. Look out.

Boycott? I don't select the product, but my wife and kids do. Maybe I can convince them that they shouldn't. My wife boycotted tuna fish for years because of the dolphin fatalities. I'll bet more squirrels and skunks (and other critters) are killed every year by Yoplait Yogurt Death Caps.

Shame on General Foods for claiming to have redesigned this cup. They're only looking out for their bottom line. A few dead squirrels aren't going to change their minds (or cup).

Down with Yoplait Yogurt Death Caps!