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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’

What they're saying:

Kennedy used the "Alien" movie prop as a way to address the federal government’s failure to inspect imported shrimp, "which don’t abide by the same rules that we abide by in America."

"Mr. President, this is a photograph of the alien from the movie ‘Alien.’ This is what you could end up looking like if you eat some of the raw

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