New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- John Kennedy, a Louisiana Senator made a bizarre claim that people eating foreign, "radioactive" shrimp will either make them look like "alien" or he "guarantees you will grow an extra ear". He also linked it to the popular sci-fi, horror 1979 movie Alien by holding its poster.

"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 frozen shrimp being sent to the U.S. by other countries. Now, let me tell you what I am talking about," he said.

Kennedy warned, "If you eat it, how could you end up looking like the alien in 'Alien'? Because the shrimp was radioactive. I kid you not. It had a radioactive isotope in it called cesium-...