Pepsi Uses Aborted Fetal Cells In Flavor Enhancers

[Muzz]

Hi folks

Pro-life groups call for Pepsi boycott over aborted fetal cell lines
by Rebecca Millette

* Thu May 26, 2011 14:17 EST

LARGO, Florida, May 26, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scores of prolife groups are calling for a public boycott of food giant, PepsiCo, due to its partnership with Senomyx, a biotech company that uses aborted fetal cells in the research and development of artificial flavor enhancers.

LifeSiteNews previously reported on Senomyx’s partnership with major food corporations, most notably PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, and Nestlé.

Pro-life watchdog group, Children of God for Life (CGL), is now joined by major pro-life organizations calling upon the public to target PepsiCo in a boycott.

Pepsi is funding the research and development, and paying royalties to Senomyx, which uses HEK-293 (human embryonic kidney cells) to produce flavor enhancers for Pepsi beverages.

Read more (http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-life-groups-call-for-pepsi-boycott-over-aborted-fetal-cell-lines)

[Flasky]

explains why pepsi never tasted right to me..

[Lettherebelight]

Thanks for this info, Muzz. I'll definitely be supporting this boycott.

It just makes you wonder what else they use these kind of substances for. I always wonder about that nebulous ingredient referred to as 'flavourings'.

Is Pepsico the flip-side of the Coca-Cola coin? Do they work together really, but just pretend to be rivals to hide a huge monopoly.

[folotheflo]

i am utterly gobsmacked, i mean i have been boycotting these ( and many more) corporations for a long time..... but this i had no idea about. as soon as i can research and 100% verify this, i will tell everyone i meet !!! also, surely this means pepsi cannot claim to be a vegetarian beverage ???

[9eagle9]

I could tell you what they , if this is true, are using this for if there was ever a time that people could get on the same page.. I'm not sure one would understand its but alchemical and Carmody could probably lend a hand here in speculating on this but its our modern day version of blood magick.

The implications of doing this are enormous and span thousands of years.

[ouporblowup]

Hi folks

* Thu May 26, 2011 14:17 EST

LifeSiteNews previously reported on Senomyx’s partnership with major food corporations, most notably PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, and Nestlé.

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so any info on these products?

[9eagle9]

I'm also cautious about 'pro-life' news. That is an emotionally driven subject which automatically blurs any objectivity ,these are people who petition for the rights of the preconceived child; you really really have to take what they say with a grain of salt and use a careful eye not to get caught up in the moral flack and fall out of it. . Not that there isn't any truth there but the pro life movement is a religious and political machine.

[Gaia]

I haven’t drank them in years, and warn everyone I know, especially Pepsi who also have a political agenda.

[ulli]

i am utterly gobsmacked, i mean i have been boycotting these ( and many more) corporations for a long time..... but this i had no idea about. as soon as i can research and 100% verify this, i will tell everyone i meet !!! also, surely this means pepsi cannot claim to be a vegetarian beverage ???

In fact, it will give humans the reputation of being the cannibals of the galaxy.

[jjl]

just to calm some of your fears, the cells were to DEVELOUP the flavor. (I dont know how or why). It doesn't excuse pepsi but at least no one has actually drank those cells, so no one has inadvertently become a cannibal, according to reports.

[Pathosology]

I could tell you what they , if this is true, are using this for if there was ever a time that people could get on the same page.. I'm not sure one would understand its but alchemical and Carmody could probably lend a hand here in speculating on this but its our modern day version of blood magick.

The implications of doing this are enormous and span thousands of years.

So so curious about your information- blood magick??

[9eagle9]

responded Pathosology, in PM

[sygh]

Using aborted fetal cell lines to test for flavor enhansers? Whoough!! The drink you just cannot put down. It's not good for you but there's something in it that you crave. Find that elixor, that one ingredient -like a spice, like catnip... How do people become so driven like this? This goes far beyond any competitive motive one could have. This is just too, too beyond anything I want to do with... ever.

[sshenry]

I'm not excusing Senomyx's use of HEK-293 in the development process - but one thing needs to be clear, the development process for taste enhancers IS NOT THE SAME as the flavor included in the beverage itself. You are NOT drinking embrionic kidney cells when you are drinking pepsi.

The development process of taste enhancers is a complex one that involves multiple checmical processes in order to determine what the 'perfect' mix of flavors for a particular product would be. EVERY company that mass produces any sort of pre-made food uses this process in order to get the best taste possible. The kidney cells are the way that Senomyx tests the different combinations of flavor enhancers in order to determine which one the human body responds to the most actively (you have a more 'active' response, the more people are going to buy the product).

Different companies hire different researchers to do this testing for them. Pepsi uses Senomyx (the biogenetic company) to do the research on its flavors. McDonalds uses Dow Chemical to do the research and determine the flavor enhancer combinations for its products, and there are plenty of others who do the same.

Again, the cells themselves are not being put into the drink - but used to test the combinations of flavor enhancers - still isn't right, but you don't have to worry about being a canibal.

P.S. This is a main reason why I try to stick to natural foods and cook them myself - I don't like the thought of flavors and tastes being "engineered" to create a desire for the product in my body. YUCK.

[sshenry]

I haven’t drank them in years, and warn everyone I know, especially Pepsi who also have a political agenda.

Very true. Anyone who thinks that major corporations DON'T have political agendas should read "When Corporations Rule the World" by David Korten. Awesome book.

[phillipbbg]

Makes you wonder how we define food in this century. What ever happened to leaving the naturally occurring flavours alone. Its bad enough that any fresh produce that enters a country is irradiated at point of entry. Buy local is all I can say, and if possible make sure it is unpackaged, enough fresh produce is kept in storage for months as it is...scary when you think you are eating a tomato that could well have been harvested 8 months ago.

And now what we wash it down with is so far removed from normal .............no wonder the human race is getting sick

[9eagle9]

No nothing to do with being a cannibal, more about being used. Which is why I responded privately to inquiries....the hysteric value.



I'm not excusing Senomyx's use of HEK-293 in the development process - but one thing needs to be clear, the development process for taste enhancers IS NOT THE SAME as the flavor included in the beverage itself. You are NOT drinking embrionic kidney cells when you are drinking pepsi.

The development process of taste enhancers is a complex one that involves multiple checmical processes in order to determine what the 'perfect' mix of flavors for a particular product would be. EVERY company that mass produces any sort of pre-made food uses this process in order to get the best taste possible. The kidney cells are the way that Senomyx tests the different combinations of flavor enhancers in order to determine which one the human body responds to the most actively (you have a more 'active' response, the more people are going to buy the product).

Different companies hire different researchers to do this testing for them. Pepsi uses Senomyx (the biogenetic company) to do the research on its flavors. McDonalds uses Dow Chemical to do the research and determine the flavor enhancer combinations for its products, and there are plenty of others who do the same.

Again, the cells themselves are not being put into the drink - but used to test the combinations of flavor enhancers - still isn't right, but you don't have to worry about being a canibal.

P.S. This is a main reason why I try to stick to natural foods and cook them myself - I don't like the thought of flavors and tastes being "engineered" to create a desire for the product in my body. YUCK.

[Arrowwind]

I wonder if the mothers of these aborted fetuses give permission for the use of their tissue for such experimentation.

Regarding Nestle as someone inquired.
This is the story .... I have boycotted nestle ever since... over 20 years now.
Did they just make an error or is their intend greed based on viewing the human race as expendible for profit?
Cearly to me, if you want to live right and promote life you must disassociate yourself from all prepackaged and prepared foods.
The processed food industry has caused the deaths of countless millions and will continue to do so until they are vanquished.

The Bottle Baby Scandal in the Third World

SYNOPSIS: With the birthrate in the United States declining, infant formula manufacturers (Nestle and Bristol-Myers in the forefront along with Abbott and American Home Products) began pushing their products on the Third World to ensure their continued profits.

They rely on exploitative and deceptive tactics to sell their products including:

1) giving free samples to mothers so their own milk will dry up, leaving them dependent on expensive formulas;

2) promises of "modernization and heightened status" through use of the formulas, as encouraged by well-financed media campaigns (which include radio and television spots, calendars, billboards, and baby contests),

3) telling new mothers that their own milk is "inappropriate" or may be "unsuccessfully" given to their baby, etc.

The majority of Third World mothers wind up watering down the formulas, using contaminated water, and otherwise malnourishing and infecting their children because they cannot afford to administer formulas in the prescribed way. Parents would have to spend 30-40 percent of their aver age daily wage to feed their babies on this mother's milk substitute. Malnutrition and denial of natural immunities (which would have been provided had the mother breast-fed) caused by infant formula feeding account for 35,000 deaths and untold brain damage in babies of predominantly Third World countries.

Meanwhile, the profit margins on infant formulas have been documented at up to 72 percent; a billion dollars a year are taken from the Third World countries from the import of these formulas.



UPDATE: As a result of public outrage in the late seventies and through a series of events involving the courts, the U.S. Senate, a group of Catholic nuns, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and concerned citizens, the WHO/UNICEF Code for Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes was drafted, redrafted, and finally adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1981. The - final vote was 118 to 1. The United States cast the sole negative vote.

Despite the U.N. Code, a comprehensive expose published by Mothering (12/22/95) revealed that even today, "Billboards and radio jingles encourage women to use formula in order to raise the healthiest baby. Hospital maternity units in developing nations are sometimes sponsored by formula companies...In addition, babies are routinely fed formula and glucose water, and mothers are sent home with unstimulated breasts and free samples of whatever formula paid for the maternity unit."

It is now estimated that "one million infant deaths per year can be prevented by using the world's most economical and effective health protection: breast milk." But Third World mothers are still not being told this and continue to be bombarded with promotions for formula. Anyone interested in this issue would be well advised to look up the original Mothering article. It is an exceptionally well-researched history of the problem dating back to 1939 when Nestle was selling sweetened condensed milk as infant food despite research showing it was unsafe for infants. It also contains dozens of names and addresses of organizations and individuals who can be contacted for further information.
Unfortunately, the health issue became increasingly complicated in 1997 as increasing numbers of Third World women, infected with the AIDS virus, were transmitting it to their infants through breast milk. Some observers feel that infant formula may be a powerful weapon to reduce childhood deaths from AIDS. Infant formula critics acknowledge that the data are incomplete but say that the vast majority of Third World infants will be imperiled by renewed promotion of bottle-feeding. Still others say it is imperative to find alternatives to breast-feeding including making safe, affordable formula widely available. (New York Times 6/8/97)

[sshenry]

Makes you wonder how we define food in this century. What ever happened to leaving the naturally occurring flavours alone. Its bad enough that any fresh produce that enters a country is irradiated at point of entry. Buy local is all I can say, and if possible make sure it is unpackaged, enough fresh produce is kept in storage for months as it is...scary when you think you are eating a tomato that could well have been harvested 8 months ago.

And now what we wash it down with is so far removed from normal .............no wonder the human race is getting sick

It's all about economics.

Corporations that sell food are beholden to their stockholders to continue making and increasing profits (you can look at the fine print of their charters - its always in there when they go 'public' and start selling stock).

First off the natural food (let's use corn as an example) only has a limited market. Only so many people will buy corn as it is, with nothing added. On top of that the shelf life of an ear of fresh corn is fairly limited. It has to be sold locally (or regionally) in order to still be edible. So companies instead can the corn, or freeze it (which extends its shelf life and enables them to sell more of the product). But of course this too has a limited selling rate because there are only so many things you can do with straight corn. So instead they use corn to make other things, cereals and such. But in order to sell MORE in order to satisfy the stock holders demand that their shares increase, they look for more and more ways to use that corn. They plan out marketing and advertising strategies to get more market shares, and then they start eyeing other companies market shares, so they look for ways to make their product more appealing - and that includes flavor.

Bah - it's a mess. And most of the mess is caused by the greed for money. Sad but true.

[Siberia9]

As far as Im concerned EVERYTHING they put out is toxic and posionous and who knows what else. I dont buy anything from the store, the idea that some is good and some is bad is like comparing spider venom. They want us dead, slowly but dead. I trust nothing these elite family owned corporations put out. This is probably just the tip of the iceburg, and it really seems that the cattle dont care so it will only get worse as the social engineers get their plans to play out deeper and deeper. As for me if I cant produce it myself then I buy it from an Amish organic farmer I know, period. In fact I refuse to take part in their system anyway, I refuse to allow them to poison me, even if I die tomorrow I will stand agaist it and thats the point. Pepsi and pizza might taste good but it feels alot better to take control of my mind and body and not be used like cattle. Whats next human sacrifice flavored Coke? "Its refreshing and has less radiation than other brands!"

[Arrowwind]

As far as Im concerned EVERYTHING they put out is toxic and posionous and who knows what else. I dont buy anything from the store, the idea that some is good and some is bad is like comparing spider venom. They want us dead, slowly but dead. !"

I fully agree Siberia. We are taking to raising our own food and purchasing locally. My freezer is full of antibiotic and hormone free meat, purchased privately from a rancher who lives near by. I produced enough veggies for a four month supply for us last year... my first garden. I am doubling garden space this summer.

Everyone can do something to alleviate the problem, if they set their mind to it.

We plan to raise grass fed beef and grass fed pork and free range chicken and rabbit before we are done... all of which we will have some for sale to our community.... I'm looking at the possibility of cherries today.

If you cannot produce one needs to support those who do..Too bad there arn't more Amish around

I highly recommend the netflex video called "The Dirt on Farmer John" ... one of the better movies Ive seen
If you live near Chicago its easy to support his farm by becoming a member... and they deliver!

[Siberia9]

Good job Arrowwind! It seems that the more I do the more I want to do, its very powerful. I finished hand drilling my water well this week with just a hand auger and some pipes, so no Pepsi will be needed around here LOL.