鈥淪hocking a couple of pigs and dogs doesn鈥檛 prove anything.鈥�
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)
鈥淭hese things are coming up the canal. They are not worried about governments. If we don鈥檛 stop them now they will destroy the Great Lakes.鈥�
Advertisement
Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, worried about the impact of Asian carp escaping from fish farms (The Financial Times, London, 17 July)
鈥淚 think they鈥檙e cute too, but so are cows and that doesn鈥檛 stop westerners eating beef, does it?鈥�
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)
鈥淲e only want to give our son the best chance for a cure.鈥�
Joe Fletcher, father of baby Joshua, who has a potentially fatal blood disorder that could be treated with stem cells taken from a 鈥渄esigner sibling鈥� 鈥� whose deliberate creation would be banned in the UK (BBC online, 17 July)
鈥淭his is coercion or blackmail by any other name.鈥�
Mark Matfield, director of the UK鈥檚 Research Defence Society, responding to news that builders have pulled out of constructing an 拢18-million science centre at the University of Oxford after being intimidated by animal rights extremists (The Times, London, 20 July)