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California court rules that bees are a type of fish in order to protect them under the state's endangered species act
Insider ^ | Jun 1, 2022 | Mia Jankowicz

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 ...


TOPICS: Government; Pets/Animals; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bees; california; environmentalwacko; fish; linguisticgymnastics; newspeak; swingingonastar; woulduratherbeafish
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

If men can be women, babies can be garbage, and truth can be misinformation ... why not?


61 posted on 06/01/2022 2:11:13 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is i)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Truth is so last century.


62 posted on 06/01/2022 2:12:04 PM PDT by tbpiper
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

In California, boys can be girls and girls can be trees. So, hell why not.


63 posted on 06/01/2022 2:12:28 PM PDT by Tenacious 1
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

well, think boi’s can be gurls, so...


64 posted on 06/01/2022 2:13:19 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Tenacious 1

“If you could be a tree, what kind of tree would you be?”


65 posted on 06/01/2022 2:13:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Judges and AG’s need to more often than we have ever seen tell legislators and any litigants to quit going to court to obtain what the laws you wrote do not mandate. And when your laws do not mandate what you want, quit blaming AGs and courts for not giving you what you want. When these things are not done then courts are converted from courts to super-legislators by judicial fiat, and worst of all the expectations grow that the courts should keep doing that.

Errant judicial practices, left unchallenged, are changing Constitutional and law meanings and boundaries of the courts, with no Constitutional or legal change inacted by the people’s elected reprentatives.


66 posted on 06/01/2022 2:21:05 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Judges ruled on Tuesday that bumble bees can be classed as fish under California environmental laws.

200 or 300 years in the future, people will look back on this age the way we look back on the past when people would be burned at the stake as witches; an irrational unscientific age driven by emotion over logic.


67 posted on 06/01/2022 2:23:23 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: DocRock

“Do they get to use the fish bathroom now?”

You win today!


68 posted on 06/01/2022 2:25:34 PM PDT by A strike (The DeepState/Uniparty doesn't only hate Trump, they hate US)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

They want us all to eat insects and now they’re declaring insects endangered species.

If liberals get their way we won’t be allowed to eat dirt.


69 posted on 06/01/2022 2:25:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (Shall not be infringed!)
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To: Menehune56

It’s now the Babylon Fish.


70 posted on 06/01/2022 2:30:19 PM PDT by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: Cboldt

“Deem it so, and rule accordingly.”

Ain’t that the truth !


71 posted on 06/01/2022 2:30:31 PM PDT by A strike (The DeepState/Uniparty doesn't only hate Trump, they hate US)
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To: sauropod
Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Law is an @$$.

I'm not sure the law was the problem. (OK, this law probably was a problem, just not the problem in this case.)

72 posted on 06/01/2022 2:32:19 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

We have lost our courts. We have lost our juries. We have lost our lawmakers. We have lost our citizenry. We have lost our children. We have lost our past. We have lost out present. We have lost our future. We have lost our country...


73 posted on 06/01/2022 2:36:49 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: where's_the_Outrage?; All

Well they claim men can be women……


74 posted on 06/01/2022 2:38:21 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: GaltAdonis

Yes- mine just lie on the bottom the tank. Wet wings i guess.


75 posted on 06/01/2022 2:38:58 PM PDT by Exit148 (I)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Yea why not? Bees are fish, boys are girls- what the heck?!


76 posted on 06/01/2022 2:41:48 PM PDT by dkGba
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

So long as the bees identify as fish then this is okay.
In California.
But not anywhere else.


77 posted on 06/01/2022 2:43:37 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce. ☭☭☭)
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To: jeffersondem

We have enough clowns in politics to fill a fleet of clown cars...


78 posted on 06/01/2022 2:44:11 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Early Spanish and Portuguese explorers in the New World were of the opinion that manatee were fish, allowing them to indulge during Catholic days of abstinence from meat.

The manatees were referred to as the fish that taste like beef.

79 posted on 06/01/2022 2:46:09 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

This makes less sense than the Catholics arguing that fish isn’t “meat”.


80 posted on 06/01/2022 2:48:07 PM PDT by Boogieman
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