Originally published at: Catfish injected with alligator genes found to be more disease resistant than wild catfish | Boing Boing
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Crocfish!
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I think GMO is great especially when its about reducing how many chemicals we use to grow a crop.
Roundup-ready produce was GMed to handle more pesticide, which enables more to be used (attacking the ecosystem with what is essentially poison). Which is a real reason to be against GMO.
But being against progress in general is crazy, we have been breeding our food ever since we invented agriculture; for example Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli all come from the mustard plant. Being able to do more precisely can only help avoid mistakes like the Lenape potato that was created via traditionally hybridization breeding.
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But what if the cure for cancer was turning people into dinosaurs? Spidey never thought of that.
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What do you get when you cross an alligator with a catfish?
A catfish that will put a quick end to your noodling hobby.
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He’s very spider centric in his approach to hybridization.
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And that, future grandaughter, is the exact date when alligator cats were born. It only took 3 years for them to leave the water and start roaming the dry land…
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And that is why we never leave the house without a large cardboard box and a laser pointer.
And a towel.
Although no one seems to know why we carry the towel. It’s probably just tradition or an old charter or something.
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We carry a couple big towels and a sheet, a lot easier to gather up an injured animal.
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With more cross genetic manipulation like this, we can finally get the wonderful banapplegator - the fruit that looks like an apple, peals like a banana, and tastes like alligator!
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TIL
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A really fat and tasty alligator gar, perhaps?
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Alternatively, an ambush predator that lurks in apple orchards and pounces on the unwary from above, with only the tell-tale scent of banana to warn you of the impending attack.
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takes notes for D&D campaign
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“The entire party was just eaten by a WHAT?!??!??!”
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If these guys ever escape captivity, all I can say is: Catfish noodlers beware! 
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