California court rules a bumblebee is a fish under environmental law

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout
California, the land of fruits and nuts.

@assemblingaknob I like that!

@assemblingaknob [quote] but it's not a fishie[/quote]
That's OK. Despite all the right-wing lies, the ruling was based on the Cal Fish & Game legal code that covers far more than fish. In particular, the code includes invertebrates. Somebody's meme went viral, but it's based on a lie.

@ElwoodBlues thank you!

@sunsporter1649 As I predicted, now that's sporty's lies have been exposed, he is trying to duck out and change the subject, [b]LOL!!![/b]

Because, despite right-wing lies, the law doesn't classify bees as fish. The law classifies them as invertebrates, which is what they are in the taxonomy of the Animalia.

[quote]... the law is part of the California Fish and Game Code. The code’s definition includes any “mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate (or) amphibian,” Robie wrote. All those categories “encompass terrestrial and aquatic species,” and the state legislature has already approved the listing of at least one land-based mollusk, the opinion said.

“Accordingly, a terrestrial invertebrate, like each of the four bumblebee species, may be listed as an endangered or threatened species,” Robie wrote, joined by Acting Presiding Justice Cole Blease and Associate Justice Andrea Lynn Hoch.[/quote]

[b]See what I mean??[/b] Sporty will do ANYTHING to change the subject, [b]LOL!!![/b]

@ElwoodBlues So your next panic is killer bees threatening swimmers in the pools across America

@sunsporter1649
Ffs🙄

@dancingtongue Next panic will be the swimming bumble bees threatening swimmers

@dancingtongue Ssshhhhh. Too much knowledge for me. I think I will take a nap now.

@Turtlepower Talking logic to liberals is a waste of time

@sunsporter1649 here's the thing. I am liberal-ish and this is stupid to me. So take your opinions of liberals and add them to your feelings about this and frankly it should show how ridiculous this is.

@Turtlepower Thanks for the link!

[quote]the act itself defines a “fish” as “a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals.” [/quote]

In other words, in the eyes of California lawmakers, those four letters, F+I+S+H, denote vast numbers of taxonomic groups that may lack gills or spines of scales. They should call their definition fish++.

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout
Actually, despite all the right-wing lies, the ruling was based on the California Fish & Game legal code that covers far more than fish. In particular, the code includes invertebrates. Somebody's meme went viral, but it's based on a lie.

@ElwoodBlues
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@Changeisgonnacome Different lawsuit. Bumblebee & Starkist settled the class action suit against their monopolistic ways out of court.

@dancingtongue maybe they saw that can of Bumblebee, and assumed it was real bumblebees

@Budwick $3,000,000,000 for bee equity!

@sunsporter1649 Bee Lives Matter!

@ron122 the state has some beautiful areas, the government is the problem.

@ron122 seriously? Have you seen it? When you're driving down that hiway in the sun?

@Changeisgonnacome The people in charge make it a shithole. It's a shame they made a beautiful state unlivable.

@MarineBob Actually, despite all the right-wing lies, the ruling was based on the California Fish & Game legal code that covers far more than fish. In particular, the code includes invertebrates. Somebody's meme went viral, but it's based on a lie.

@BohemianBoo Actually, despite all the right-wing lies, the ruling was based on the California Fish & Game legal code that covers far more than fish. In particular, the code includes invertebrates. Somebody's meme went viral, but it's based on a lie.

[quote]... the law is part of the California Fish and Game Code. The code’s definition includes any “mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate (or) amphibian,” Robie wrote. All those categories “encompass terrestrial and aquatic species,” and the state legislature has already approved the listing of at least one land-based mollusk, the opinion said.

“Accordingly, a terrestrial invertebrate, like each of the four bumblebee species, may be listed as an endangered or threatened species,” Robie wrote, joined by Acting Presiding Justice Cole Blease and Associate Justice Andrea Lynn Hoch.[/quote]