17, MAY, 2012
Obama agency rules
Pepsi’s use of aborted fetal cells in soft drinks constitutes ‘ordinary
business operations’
Ethan A. Huff
Natural News
March 17, 2012
(NaturalNews) The Obama Administration has given its
blessing to PepsiCo to continue utilizing the services of a company that
produces flavor chemicals for the beverage giant using aborted human fetal
tissue. LifeSiteNews.com reports that the Obama Security and Exchange
Commission (SEC) has decided that PepsiCo’s arrangement with San Diego,
Cal.-based Senomyx, which produces flavor enhancing chemicals for Pepsi using
human embryonic kidney tissue, simply constitutes “ordinary business
operations.”
The issue began in 2011 when the non-profit group Children
of God for Life (CGL) first broke the news about Pepsi’s alliance with Senomyx,
which led to massive outcry and a worldwide boycott of Pepsi products. At that
time, it was revealed that Pepsi had many other options at its disposal to
produce flavor chemicals, which is what its competitors do, but had instead
chosen to continue using aborted fetal cells — or as Senomyx deceptively puts
it, “isolated human taste receptors”
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A few months later, Pepsi’ shareholders filed a
resolution petitioning the company to “adopt a corporate policy that recognizes
human rights and employs ethical standards which do not involve using the
remains of aborted human beings in both private and collaborative research and
development agreements.” But the Obama Administration shut down this 36-page
proposal, deciding instead that Pepsi’s used of aborted babies to flavor its beverage products
is just business as usual, and not a significant concern.
“We’re not talking about what kind of pencils PepsiCo wants
to use — we are talking about exploiting the remains of an aborted child for
profit,” said Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director of CGL, concerning the SEC
decision. “Using human embryonic kidney (HEK-293) to produce flavor enhancers
for their beverages is a far cry from routine operations!”
To be clear, the aborted fetal tissue used to make Pepsi’s
flavor chemicals does not end up in the final product sold to customers,
according to reports — it is used, instead, to evaluate how actual human taste
receptors respond to these chemical flavorings. But the fact that Pepsi uses
them at all when viable, non-human alternatives are available illustrates the
company’s blatant disregard for ethical and moral concerns in the matter.
Back in January, Oklahoma Senator Ralph Shortey proposed
legislation to ban the production of aborted fetal cell-derived flavor
chemicals in his home state. If passed, S.B. 1418 would also reportedly ban the
sale of any products that contain flavor chemicals derived from human fetal
tissue, which includes Pepsi products as well as products produced by Kraft and
Nestle.
This is from Natural News artticle:
(NaturalNews) (NaturalNews) Senomyx, a San Diego, Cal.-based
biotechnology company that specializes in food flavoring ingredients, is under
fire for allegedly using aborted human fetal cells to test the effectiveness of
its various synthetic flavoring agents. According to reports, the company has
plenty of other viable options at its disposal for testing such ingredients
that do not involve the moral and ethical problems associated with using
aborted human fetal cells, but for whatever reason it has ignored pleas to stop
using them.
The Senomyx website explains that the company develops
"savory, sweet and salt flavor ingredients that are intended to allow for
the reduction of MSG (monosodium glutamate), sugar and salt in food and
beverage products." But the way in which it does this is through the use
of "isolated human taste receptors," which a group called Children of
God for Life (CGL) suggests is a deceptive marketing term to cover up their
true nature.
"What they don't tell the public is that they are using
HEK 293 -- human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby
to produce those receptors," said Debi Vinnedge, director of CGL.
"They could have easily chosen animal, insect, or other morally obtained
human cells expressing the G protein for taste receptors."
CGL says it has tried to contact Senomyx on numerous
occasions to urge the company to switch to alternative testing methods, but has
yet to receive a formidable response. CGL has also contacted many of the
company's "collaborators," which include PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, Solae,
and Nestle. Such collaborators help fund research and development at Senomyx,
as well as pay royalties on sales of products they sell that include the
company's flavor ingredients.
Campbell Soup was also a Senomyx collaborator, but shortly
after being contacted by CGL, the company indicated that it had officially cut
ties with Senomyx over the ordeal.
Besides the company's questionable use of aborted fetal
cells to test its flavors, the flavors themselves are synthetically-derived.
Artificial flavor enhancers are exactly what their name insinuates -- fake.
They typically reduce costs for processed food producers by extending flavors
and tastes but provide no nutritional benefit to consumers.
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