California court rules a bumblebee is a fish under environmental law

@Turtlepower laws can't protect anything. That's going to be clarified soon by the supreme Court. No EPA.

@Turtlepower No new law needed. 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 I mean CNN (not known for right wing lies) wrote an article about it that makes it pretty clear they're using the definition of fish in the law too include terrestrial invertebrates. They should simply amend the law to allow terrestrial invertebrates that clearly have no business being defined under 'fish'. I'll all for protecting bees but this is stupid.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/06/06/us/california-bees-fish-court-ruling-scn-trnd/index.html

@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++.