🇺🇸 SENATOR USES ALIEN MOVIE TO WARN ABOUT RADIOACTIVE WALMART SHRIMP
Senator Kennedy brought an Alien poster to the Senate floor, claiming radioactive Indonesian shrimp could turn you into xenomorphs.
The theatrical performance had a real point: FDA found cesium-137 contaminated shrimp at Walmart across 13 states.
The facts behind the theater:
-Yes, radioactive shrimp was recalled from Walmart/Kroger
-44,460 contaminated packages found
-US inspects 1-2% of imported seafood
-UK inspects 50%, even China does better
Kennedy's "grow an extra ear" rhetoric is pure showmanship, but the inspection failure is real.
NOAA supposed to catch this. They didn't.
Cesium-137 is genuinely dangerous - just won't give you acid blood or nested jaws.
Peak Congress: Using Hollywood monsters to highlight regulatory failures.
Effective? Debatable. Memorable? Absolutely.
Source: @rawsalerts
If you eat some of the radioactive frozen shrimp that foreign countries are sending to America, you may end up looking like this picture from the movie, “Alien!”