John Kennedy said that eating recalled shrimp could make you &34;grow an extra ear&34; while standing in front of a photo of the chestburster from the 1979 clas

John Kennedy said that eating recalled shrimp could make you "grow an extra ear" while standing in front of a photo of the chestburster from the 1979 classic.

Louisiana senator claims radioactive shrimp could turn you into the Alien xenomorph: 'It'll kill ya'

John Kennedy said that eating recalled shrimp could make you "grow an extra ear" while standing in front of a photo of the chestburster from the 1979 classic.

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September 4, 2025 6:16 p.m. ET

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- Louisiana Senator John Kennedy said that eating certain frozen shrimp could make you look like the xenomorph from *Alien*.

- The politician warned against the contaminated seafood, which has been recalled by multiple companies due to traces of radioactive material.

- Kennedy gave a speech to the senate in front of a still of the chestburster from the original *Alien* movie.

In space, no one can hear you scream about the possible dangers of frozen seafood.

Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy used a still of a bloody extraterrestrial from 1979's *Alien* to discuss the potential hazards of eating frozen shrimp during a senate hearing about water contamination on Wednesday.

The chestburster from 'Alien'.

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"This is a photograph of the alien from the movie *Alien*," Kennedy, who has no relation to John F. Kennedy's family, said in his speech. "This is what you could end up looking like if you eat some of the raw frozen shrimp being sent to the United States by other countries."

The Republican senator, who was first elected in 2017, went on to warn about the FDA's advisory against certain frozen shrimp imported from Indonesia that are being sold in Walmart and Kroger stores.

"If you eat it, how could you end up looking like the alien in the *Alien*?" Kennedy posited. "Because the shrimp was radioactive. I kid you not. It had a radioactive isotope in it called Cesium-137. It'll kill ya. Even if it doesn't turn you into the alien, if you eat this stuff, I guarantee you'll grow an extra ear."

Representatives from Walmart, Kroger, and 20th Century Studios did not immediately respond to **'s request for comment.

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Kennedy's claims about *Alien* are obviously hyperbolic to the point of sounding like a joke, but there really were a series of recalls related to imported Indonesian shrimp, and those shrimp products posed health risks if consumed. Although the FDA noted that the detected levels of Cesium-137 are not high enough to pose acute danger to consumers, the administration warned that "continued exposure over a long period of time" to the shrimp in question could possibly cause "elevated risk of cancer."

It's not entirely clear why Kennedy chose the xenomorph from *Alien* as his pop-cultural hook for his message — especially since the critter in his photo is actually the chestburster that emerges from John Hurt's character, which is pretty much the smallest creature in the entire franchise (and also the most shrimp-like! He'd be better off saying that the *shrimp* is like an alien, not the consumer of the shrimp!). The full-grown xenomorph that tears apart the *Nostromo* is much closer to the size and build of a human.

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The xenomorph in 'Alien'.

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Also puzzling: the insistence that someone who eats the contaminated shrimp is at risk of transforming into an alien. People don't turn into aliens in *Alien*. The aliens in the franchise just kill people. There have been a couple of ungodly human/xenomorph hybrids in the sequels, but they're not actual humans that morph into aliens later in life — they're like that from their earliest moments.

In conclusion, John Kennedy needs to watch *District 9*. Now *that's* a movie where humans turn into aliens against their will. They're even called "prawns"! The speech writes itself!

If you want to see gnarly xenomorph action, *Alien: Earth* is currently in the midst of its eight-episode run on FX, with new episodes dropping every Tuesday. The show has yet to reveal whether its xenomorphs are actually former humans who ate infected shrimp. We'll see!

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