India, Sept. 4 -- Louisiana Senator John Kennedy chose to highlight the potential dangers of people eating radioactive shrimp by drawing a parallel to the iconic sci-fi, horror movie Alien.

"If you eat some of the radioactive frozen shrimp that foreign countries are sending to America, you may end up looking like this picture from the movie, 'Alien!'," he said.

The 73-year-old Republican made his point with a photograph showing an alien from the Ridley Scott-directed film. The picture appears to show a Chestburster - an infant form of the Xenomorph alien that gets its name because of the violent way it bursts out of a host's chest.

Kennedy's point comes after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning in August for custome...