“Shocking a couple of pigs and dogs doesn’t prove anything.”
Andrew Podgorski, a Canadian electrical engineer, criticising tests designed to prove that taser electric stun guns used by US police cannot kill (The New York Times, 18 July)
“These things are coming up the canal. They are not worried about governments. If we don’t stop them now they will destroy the Great Lakes.”
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Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, worried about the impact of Asian carp escaping from fish farms (The Financial Times, London, 17 July)
“I think they’re cute too, but so are cows and that doesn’t stop westerners eating beef, does it?”
A Tokyo restaurant-goer, interviewed about the acceptability of eating whales, ahead of a vote by the International Whaling Commission this week (The Times, London, 19 July)
“We only want to give our son the best chance for a cure.”
Joe Fletcher, father of baby Joshua, who has a potentially fatal blood disorder that could be treated with stem cells taken from a “designer sibling” – whose deliberate creation would be banned in the UK (BBC online, 17 July)
“This is coercion or blackmail by any other name.”
Mark Matfield, director of the UK’s Research Defence Society, responding to news that builders have pulled out of constructing an £18-million science centre at the University of Oxford after being intimidated by animal rights extremists (The Times, London, 20 July)
