Well the branding and the salesman don't really care what you think. You are already "his". My guess at least. :) He is aiming on the new customer trying to change his/her ways. A nicotine patch or meat free substitutes.

Things get even worse when we try to live a life without animal cruelty and yet we can not restrain from naming items after animals.

Idk....I dont see the cruelty in it I guess. I'm not disturbed when I have a hedgehog (which is a desert here) or when I buy a chocolate sausage, or a hot dog or a bear claw...we also have some icre cream named dandelion. I think of it as branding I guess. Besides if this snow ball starts..what else will follow? I'll soon be stoned for calling my nieces njoki and knodles. :)