“I JUST don’t think it’s right to produce a new organism just to be a pet,” state fish and game commissioner Sam Schuchat told reporters. “To me, this seems like an abuse of the power we have over life.”
It was with these solemn words that California said no to the GloFish this month. The creature, a zebrafish with a coral gene that makes it fluoresce red, is already selling well in Florida. From January, it will be available in most other US states as well. In Taiwan, meanwhile, a zebrafish called Night Pearl, which glows in the dark courtesy…
