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Lawsuit Filed Against Unregulated GloFish
purduephotog writes "You may remember the infamous poll on glowing pets posted in response to the marketing of GloFish. The Center for Food Safety has filed a lawsuit asking to halt all sales of said fish until the government can properly regulate it. More information at ABCNews.com."
Sheesh! Its not like people are going to be eating these fish. They could at least make it against the law to release them into the wild & some export restriction. Do they think that there will be some mishap and the fish will mutate into a super fish and do things like file patent lawsuits?
Your teeth! They're brigher... but not exactly whiter... What is it? They're glowing! What is it?
Fish! I eat Glo-Fish. And now I also use Glo-Fish Toothpaste to keep up the glow-in-the-dark tooth brightness!
I say buy a whole bunch of them and release them into the wild. The aquatic equivalent of fireflys. Too awesome.
Just don't make any with frickin' laser beams, and I think we'll be just fine.
When by little brother was 6 he stuck an LED down his goldfish's throat, now that is what I call a GloFish!
I've already said all that I have to say.
probably can't find a lawyer who'll work for fish food and colored light.
My other sig is extremely clever...
Why does the Center for Food Safety want to regulate my aquarium? How broke do they think I am?
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Since the Center for Food Safety is suing to stop people from owning glowing pets, shouldn't PETA now sue the Center for Food Safety because they are advocating that people routinely eat their pets?
No really.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
They probably think it is radioactive because it glows.
I can see the adverts now:
One Fish, Two Fish
Red Fish, Blue Fish
Wouldn't you like
A mutant GloFish?
(with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
If he can herd those damn neighbor kids off the lawn between laundry loads, so much the better. If he has any spare time after that, he's free to play cards with the neo-ferret who inspects the cable runs and cleans out the air ducts.
Nyahhhh, rotten kids and their goddamn glowing green racing llamas.
Stefan
They were going to repost it as a new front page article tomorrow, and link back to this one in the repost of the old one.
only outlaws will eat GloFish.
Ah well.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
*laughs*
Well, considering the amount of ridiculous trademark infringement cases we have seen in the news recently, I am suprised that the Go Fish Card Game People have not sued the GloFish people for infringement. Hey, if people can confuse Lindows with Windows, then why not?
I, for one, welcome our new GloFish Overlords...
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"We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms."
That's right. The plants that pick up the gene would be unable to reproduce and would all die out! Pretty soon all you would have left would be the plants without the gene!
Oh, wait...
"Alas, such idiots are not so accomidating as to remove themselves from our collective gene pool, more's the pity."
They try, but I brake for them. Somehow I don't think "But your honour, I ran over him for the sake of our gene pool" would be very effective as a defense.
Of course, if they can do this, then it's just a short step from here to sharks with lasers attached to their heads.
Personally, I like the traditional way of having kids, you know, sex!! ;-)
It surely is A Brave New World.