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Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said people who eat imported, "radioactive" shrimp will turn you into an alien, or at the very least cause you "to grow an extra ear."

The senator’s strange diatribe may seem random, but it’s part of a larger push to better regulate foreign shrimp that threatens Louisiana’s once-booming shrimping industry.

A U.S. senator from Louisiana has a dire warning for people who eat "radioactive," imported shrimp: You could end up looking like the alien from the movie "Alien."

Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, spent more than five minutes on the Senate floor Wednesday discussing radioactive shrimp and aliens, with a blown-up photo of the alien from the 1979 movie "Alien" behind him as a reference.

‘Will cause you to grow an extra ear’

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