[aruanan]

I’ll bet these are nothing more than the HEK 293 cell line. This immortal cell line has been around for decades and came from human embryonic kidney cells transformed by means of an adenovirus back in the 1970s. It is unknown whether the cells came from a naturally aborted fetus or not. At any rate, researchers don’t obtain these cells by going down to Planned Parenthood for samples. So if this was the cell line used and folks think that drinking a Pepsi product results in more abortions to keep the product line going they couldn’t be any more mistaken.

[TribalPrincess2U]

OMG! We're already a ‘soylent green’ society.

Never, never will I drink that crap. My son-in -law, worked for them and he drank lots of it. He died from esophageal and stomach cancer abt 10 years ago in his late 40’s I believe.

[marron]

You'd have to wonder what kind of person could even conceive of such a thing. The argument for so long in favor of the use of fetal tissue was the supposed life-saving treatments that would supposedly be developed for the sake of humanity.

And now we find they want to make a beverage with them.

These are people who have completely lost their moorings.

[aruanan]

“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,” she said. “Using human embryonic kidney (HEK-293) to produce flavor enhancers for their beverages is a far cry from routine operations!”

As I thought. Sheesh, these folks are just a bit nutty here. The HEK293 cells are standard research tools in molecular cell biology. They are not used to make flavor enhancers in the sense that anyone drinking a Pepsi is drinking aborted fetuses. When people start portraying things like this in order to sway others to support them, they're essentially lying and justifying it by saying they're doing it in a good cause--the end justifies the means. This is similar to the misuse of the statistics in breast cancer and abortion. They make it sound as though an abortion increases a woman's chance of cancer when, in actuality, it's only reducing it towards the risk run by women who have never ever been pregnant. In fact, a sufficiently large group of women having an abortion at the end of the first trimester would should a reduced risk of breast cancer when compared to a group of nulliparous women, but no one is using this as a way of saying women should have an abortion after the first trimester because that way they can reduce their risk of breast cancer without all the bother of actually having the kid.

[ScottinVA]

company use of cells derived from an aborted fetus in flavor-enhancing research.

How in the hell does THAT enhance flavor? Forget it... maybe I don't really want to know. This is one sick ****ing country.

[madison10]

There goes my Diet Mt. Dew. I don’t care if it’s in the final product or not, that’s just disgusting.

[theBuckwheat]

Socialism is the ideology that we can (and must) live at the expense of others. Making products from the cells of aborted babies is the ultimate outrage of socialism: it is literally living at the expense of others.

[combat_boots]

Yes but Pepsi must have received its approval! http://www.icpem.org/2008/Fluke.jpg

[faucetman]

Here, take a drink of this water. It only has a small amount of sewage in it.

Here, take a drink of this Pepsi. It only has a small amount of aborted fetus in it.

In a national taste test..... aborted fetuses prefer Pepsi!

News Flash! Pepsico has acquired Planned Parenthood.

“Pepsi Next” the new drink to die for.

“Pepsi Next” an unusual new flavor you can't quite put your “finger” on.

“Pepsi Next” a new “CHOICE” for women.

Here at Pepsi, there is absolutely NOTHING we won't do, to bring you a new flavor.

Support women's reproductive rights, drink “Pepsi Next”.

“Pepsi Next”, breakfast of abortionists.

Just like Pizza Hut, you won't find Coca Cola at Planned Parenthood. We offer only Pepsi products.

[gingerales]

oh c’mon, how many times will we have similar misleading threads here?

They do their testing in HEK-293 cells, a cell line (cells transformed or immortalized so that they can keep growing and dividing in culture) derived from probably a stillborn fetus. This is NOT similar to using dead baby parts in Pepsi.

FWIW, do we even know what cell line(s) Coca Cola uses?

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[Nowhere Man]

Nothing like aborting the next “Pepsi Generation.” B-) B-P Just an ironic humor break.

[TheOldLady]

I've always hated Pepsi, but I wish I didn't so I could boycott them now.

That was about the creepiest thing I've ever heard when this first came to light months ago, but this ruling just takes the cake.

It's time for us to divest ourselves of the culture of death.

[ronnyquest]

Holy shit, what a fiasco! PepsiCo is showing their true stripes. Go figure that the White House is an enabler of this evil practice.