[extropy-chat] glo-fish

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > > --- Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote
> > > > Schuchat commented:
> > > > 
> > > > "For me it's a question of values, it's not a question of 
> > > > science," said commissioner Sam Schuchat. "I think selling 
> > > > genetically modified fish as pets is wrong."
> ...
> 
> What if you bought a bunch of these, bred them in
> your home aquarium, then released or sold the offspring?
> Could you claim that they were not genetically
> engineered?  I don't see why not: they were, after
> all, conceived and born the old-fashioned way.  Of
> course, their parents may have been a bit unusual...

I've GOT it: raise them as farm animals.... ;)

> 
> If these glo-fish can be procluded from sale, then
> they must be considered a unique species.  So if
> some of these escaped into the wild, could not
> one argue that this is a rare and endangered species?  
> And therefore all building within 10 miles must halt
> forthwith.  Merely point to the building project you
> would like to see stopped.

Dump em in the Bay and they'll have to stop scuba diving for more
evidence in the Lacey Peterson case...

=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
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