GE subsidiary to use human embryonic stem cells for drug testing (spare lab rats from toxic drugs)

cna ^ | July 11, 2009

[NYer]

Yet we must not underestimate the disturbing scenarios that threaten our future, or the powerful new instruments that the “culture of death” has at its disposal. To the tragic and widespread scourge of abortion we may well have to add in the future — indeed it is already surreptiously present — the systematic eugenic programming of births. At the other end of the spectrum, a pro-euthanasia mindset is making inroads as an equally damaging assertion of control over life that under certain circumstances is deemed no longer worth living. Underlying these scenarios are cultural viewpoints that deny human dignity. These practices in turn foster a materialistic and mechanistic understanding of human life. Who could measure the negative effects of this kind of mentality for development? How can we be surprised by the indifference shown towards situations of human degradation, when such indifference extends even to our attitude towards what is and is not human? What is astonishing is the arbitrary and selective determination of what to put forward today as worthy of respect. Insignificant matters are considered shocking, yet unprecedented injustices seem to be widely tolerated.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

[HiTech RedNeck]

“No Animal Testing”

[Steamburg]

If only embryonic stem cell was a code word for politician. That is a position I could support.

[trisham]

Who would ever have thought we would come to the day when anyone thought it was preferable to sacrifice human embryos to spare rats?

[Condor51]

According to CNSNews.com, GE Healthcare has said it hopes testing which uses human embryonic cells will spare lab rats from potentially toxic drug evaluations.

These 'people' are s-i-c-k.
And there's a special place awaiting them -- right next to Josef Mengele's room in Hell!

[muawiyah]

We are working our way backwards. As everyone recalls Father Abraham was guided to an animal to use as a substitute sacrifice for his son. Now, we sacrifice human beings to avoid harm to the animals.

I suspect eventually we will need to take care of the whole pack of barbarians and savages who have seized our legal systems and governments and dispose of them en masse and all at once, as an act of self-defense.

[NYer]

Who would ever have thought we would come to the day when anyone thought it was preferable to sacrifice human embryos to spare rats?

The signs were all there but we were moving too fast to see them. I recall 25 years ago when they stopped testing mascara on rabbits.

JPII and B16 both saw this coming; hence the quote from the new encyclical.

[NYer]

Money speaks louder than words .... how about boycotting GE products?!

[Always Right]

I think we are way down the slippery slope already. Not too far away from harvesting babies to do research on.

[Fred Hayek]

I must ask if there is a connection between General Electric and PETA.

General Electric GO TO HELL!

[Desdemona]

Money speaks louder than words .... how about boycotting GE products?!

And NBC. The one flaw with this plan is aircraft engines. You can't always choose a flight based on who built the plane and the engines.

[trisham]

The signs were all there but we were moving too fast to see them. I recall 25 years ago when they stopped testing mascara on rabbits.

JPII and B16 both saw this coming; hence the quote from the new encyclical.

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The culture of death seems to be gaining ground at an alarming rate.

[trisham]

I must ask if there is a connection between General Electric and PETA.

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Good question.

[trisham]

I was thinking the same thing.

[Condor51]

Money speaks louder than words .... how about boycotting GE products?!

I already do and have for years decades ;-)

(My Boycott has been for so long, I forgot the original reason, 'I'm series'. But I still will not buy anything by GE)

[HiTech RedNeck]

Much of this testing was redundant and a response to a growing wave of litigiousness. It is little surprise that a backlash developed, condemning it as cruelty in the pursuit of vanity. The result was new lines of cosmetics which were made of nothing that hadn’t already been tested in the past.

The scientific rationale behind using human stem cells for toxicity testing is entirely unclear to me. Has empirical research been done which shows that the results carry over to the results on organisms as a whole? And even if the results did, why aren’t adult stem cells being used?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Was it that GE was one of the earliest and most aggressive outsourcers of labor?