Court Says Bees Are Fish

Discussed a few days ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31596034" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31596034</a> (54 points&#x2F;127 comments)

When updating some Master function (in this case the law) is hard, so you just abuse the hell out of a helper function you have control over.

This is reasonable, as while the colloquial wording says “fish”, the law has to enumerate families.<p>The law explicitly lists many different species, including invertebrates, which is what “insects” are.<p>It just makes a “better” headline to claim that the court is calling bees fish.<p>The alternative would be the law not covering, for example, shrimp, or octopus, muscles, etc which are also not fish.