“Would you still love me if I was a radioactive shrimp?”

Radioactive shrimp memes bombarded social media after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requested Walmart for a recall. Yes, which means sure baggage of shrimp from the superstore chain contained radiation. No, consuming the shrimp won’t provide you with shrimp-based superpowers. Stop asking.

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Walmart remembers shrimp contaminated with radioactive isotope

The recall targets Great Value model uncooked frozen shrimp and presently impacts 13 states. A pattern check detected the radioactive isotope Cesium-137 among the many shellfish from Indonesia, which might make you sick at low ranges of publicity over time.

Radiation illness may be very critical, however all these a long time of comedian books filled with superheroes who received their begin from publicity to radioactive animals signifies that social media isn’t taking it very critically. Instead, everybody’s making memes in regards to the powers they may achieve from consuming the Walmart shrimp.

This quickly developed into posts exhibiting what would possibly occur when you do eat the worth model seafood, drawing from outdated memes and standard media. There’s additionally no scarcity of jokes concentrating on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.

If you’ve already eaten a few of this shrimp and didn’t begin glowing, that’s in all probability as a result of that you must devour it constantly over time to see any apparent results. Donald Schaffner, a Rutgers University meals security professional, referred to as the danger of sickness from consuming a little bit of radioactive Walmart shrimp “quite low.”

Still, please don’t eat the shrimp. Just make memes.

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