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Lack of pig in ELC farm

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yummymummy345 · 13/03/2013 14:19

Political correctness gone mad?
I bought the above farm today, only to be advised that the pig is no longer included due to religious reasons- What?!!

I do not eat certain animals however am not offended if they are included in a toy. Pigs are at the farm which is just part of life.

The purpose of purchasing the toy was to try and help my son with his speech using animals so would have liked the full set. (they have advised that I can ring up and order one which I will do but why just not include? perhaps I am ignorant but just can not see the potential offence).

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yummymummy345 · 13/03/2013 15:57

It it doesn't appear to offend the assumed people.

So makes sense- maketing ploy and consumerism at the heart of this.

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HoldMeCloserTonyDanza · 13/03/2013 15:59

I know it seems trivial but pigs were domesticated in Europe in the Neolithic period and are part of the our cultural heritage. Now they are removed from a toy set because a vocal minority religion may not like them? I think it's pretty poor.

weeps with laughter

So this is what oppression feels like! My cultural heritage of pig-farming, erased in an instant!

They were not removed from a toy set to avoid offending a vocal minority. A very successful multinational company decided to slightly alter the contents of their products so as to widen demand for said products in as many foreign markets as possible.

Your problem, if you think there is a problem here (there isn't btw), is not with political correctness but with capitalism.

TheBigJessie · 13/03/2013 16:00

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ELC-Happyland-Tractor-Trailer-and-Farm-Animals-Pig-Cow-Horse-/350736652608?pt=UK_Toys_Creative_Educational_RL&hash=item51a9889940

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ELC-HAPPYLAND-GOOSE-FEATHER-FARM-SET-FIGURES-SOUNDS-TRACTOR-PIG-SHELTER-/190798204959?pt=UK_Toys_Creative_Educational_RL&hash=item2c6c75901f

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ELC-Happyland-toy-pig-and-dog-in-lovely-condition-/261184088979?pt=UK_Toys_Creative_Educational_RL&hash=item3ccfc8eb93

Have a look at these.

UniqueAndAmazing · 13/03/2013 16:07

that woman farmer is the same old lady who shops in my Happyland bakery!

witchface · 13/03/2013 16:08

I emailed them and they sent me two! Im pig rich!

GroupieGirl · 13/03/2013 16:09

Surely some of you are telling porkies?

TheBigJessie · 13/03/2013 16:10

Are you going to breed them now?

UniqueAndAmazing · 13/03/2013 16:11

DD has got the Duplo farm.
it's got a pig
and straw.
(sort of, one of the bricks is supposed to be straw - i know that because there's a fork)

ooh, we could use the fork as a dining fork!

Blu · 13/03/2013 16:13

I am completely offended by that Rosebud Farm. Stereotyping female farmers as having not only a pink roof, but a pony with a pink mane (at least I THINK that is what that stick-necked beast is?) ...

:on hotline to PinkStinks:

Blu · 13/03/2013 16:19

The IKEA set has a pig and 3 piglets!
Farming advice by Jay Rayner, I presume.
And meatball-conscious.

TheBigJessie · 13/03/2013 16:19

The male farmer has a pink pitchfork and a pink gingham shirt under his dungarees, though.

Actually, all of these farms are heterocentric. Can't lesbians in a civil partnership be farmers?

Blu · 13/03/2013 16:23

Oh, I assumed that was the female farmer, in the checked shirt, and the one in the scarf is the female egg collector, either mother, sister. lesbian lover or underpaid peasant, of the female farmer.

TheBigJessie · 13/03/2013 16:25

I stared for two minutes trying to decide his/her gender, and then consulted the text.

there are always lots of important jobs for the farmer and his wife to do.

Bastards.

Blu · 13/03/2013 16:28

Aaargh, yes, the text!

And in the Rosebud hospital guess who is a Dr and who is a nurse?

gordyslovesheep · 13/03/2013 16:30

oh come on - it's not for 'religious' reasons as such is it - they say themselves it's for SALES reasons - as a global brand they sell world wide - pigless farms sell globally without fuss

Blu · 13/03/2013 16:32

Well, as far as we know from the many newspaper reports, no muslims were actually offended in the making of this debacle.

TheBigJessie · 13/03/2013 16:32

I get quite annoyed by "farmer's wife". She's a farmer, too! Does she look like she lazes around all day, not participating?

mungotracy · 13/03/2013 16:32

Because a lot of religions neither farm nor eat pig. They probably had a single complaint and as usual these days a single complaint is taken as representing the mass view shrug mind you i bet they didnt have a goat in the set either....

UniqueAndAmazing · 13/03/2013 16:36

To be fair, the farmer i used to live on the farm of, his wife wasn't a farmer herself.

But I deliberately put "female farmer" in my bit, because in the absence of fact, you always make the assumption that the two people owning/running the farm are farmers.

gordyslovesheep · 13/03/2013 16:38

there wasn't a 'complaint' though - look at the first link - the ELC spokes person said 'market research' had shown that globally a farm without a pig would sell better - end of

it's nothing to do with anyone being offended

TheBigJessie · 13/03/2013 17:39

Big Barn Farm on CBeebies is terrible for it. The talking animals perpetually refer to the "farmer's wife", but she seems to do more running around after them and feeds them more than "the farmer" does.

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