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Sen. John Kennedy Claims People Who Eat Foreign Shrimp Will 'Turn Into Aliens'
The Food and Drug Administration recalled over 44,000 packages of frozen shrimp contaminated with cesium-137, raising long-term cancer risk concerns and prompting calls for stricter import inspections.
- Sen. John Kennedy presented on the Senate floor with a photo featuring an alien from the movie "Alien", warning against consuming imported frozen shrimp that could contain the radioactive isotope cesium-137.
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about certain frozen shrimp products sold at Walmart stores that tested positive for cesium-137, but no contaminated products have entered U.S. commerce.
- Kennedy encouraged people to eat locally sourced Louisiana shrimp instead of imported shrimp, saying "NOAA needs to do a better job of inspecting the shrimp that is sold from other countries.
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Louisiana Senator Warns Eating Walmart’s Radioactive Shrimp Could Turn You into an Alien
You may recall a story from a few weeks ago, when Walmart recalled some Great Value frozen shrimp due to concerns that they might be contaminated with radiation. There’s a minor update on that—one that doesn’t have much to do with the irradiated shrimp themselves as much as it is one, possibly unwell, senator’s got to say on the subject. In what seems like a mix of seafood safety PSA and the kind of rambling that used to be found exclusively on …
Sen. John Kennedy compares radioactive imported shrimp to 'Alien' monster: 'It will kill you'
U.S. Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana used an unusual prop to argue for tougher inspections of foreign seafood in a speech on the Senate floor: A poster-sized picture of the monster from sci-fi horror movie Alien.
Confounding science and science fiction, the John Kennedy Congress elected warned Wednesday, September 3rd against the hypothetic consequences of exposure to very low doses of radioactivity.
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