Of course they're vehicles. When you're riding a bicycle you are operating a vehicle in traffic, like any other. What would you call them otherwise?
Bakwerk
Pizza has historically had fruit on it. There are wallpaintings in Pompei depicting it. Pizza has historically had pretty much everything on it.
I've come to the conclusion that blaming a company for being evil or greedy is pointless because companies do not have ears to hear nor brains to think or feel with (as they are social constructs and nothing more). Therefore, when the Google search engine sucks, it's because the developers who work at Google are incompetent. When the new Battlefield game launched and was a mess, it was because the developers who worked on it had no idea what they were doing.
It's likely you would have to leave your home and socialise with people for this to happen.
It's the religious that should have their children taken. Forcing a child into an insane cult is abuse.
Sweden: Astrid Lindgren the childrens book author is pretty much as beloved as a person can get. She's even on our money.