Posted on 06/01/2022 1:20:30 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Judges ruled on Tuesday that bumble bees can be classed as fish under California environmental laws.
This unlocks protections for the state's four endangered bumble bee species.
The ruling clarifies the state's confusing classification in its environmental protections.
A trio of judges in California said on Tuesday that bees can be legally classed as a type of fish as part of a ruling that brings added conservation protections for the endangered species.
"The issue presented here is whether the bumble bee, a terrestrial invertebrate, falls within the definition of fish," the judges wrote in their ruling. And, they concluded, it does.
Formerly, the problem for bee-lovers — and lovers of all Californian terrestrial invertebrates — was down to the way protected animals have been classified in the state's laws.
Although four different bee species were classified as endangered in 2018, land invertebrates are not explicitly protected under the state's Endangered Species Act (CESA), which protects endangered "native species or subspecies of a bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, or plant."....
They also argued that land-based invertebrates have been protected under the category of "fish" under the statute in the past, such as in 1980 when the Trinity bristle snail was protected.
The judges described how California's legislature has wavered for years over whether or not to explicitly include invertebrates in the Act, presumably saving them the trouble of having to expand the definition of fish.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Legal fiction.
It’s garden-variety common.
Deem it so, and rule acordingly.
So awesome.
Science is settled?
And they tell us to “Trust the science”.
So if one of these bees stings you, did you just commit a felony?
And here we have another example of why people think the court system is broken and failed.
Keep this in mind the next time a liberal lectures you about following THE SCIENCE!
How can this not be the Babylon Bee?
trans fish?
float like a butterfly and sting like a fish. Just doesn’t have the same ring to it for some reason.
What does Richard Dawkins say?
Easier than a bee... sweet Jesus, is it time for you to come back now? Please?
You’re not a biologist.
And I’m the queen of England.
5.56mm
Biology is NOT a strong suit for Leftists is it? /s
Ok this isn’t a. Kurt anymore, it’s a plaything of arrogant elites.
But babies are not so protected.
Well, why the heck not.
Ironically, the shrinking bee population is a much bigger problem than any fish.
But, this isn’t how you handle it.
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