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PepsiCo Says It Will Halt Use of Aborted Fetal Cells in Flavor Research
The New American ^ | 5/23/12 | Dave Bohon

Posted on 05/23/2012 10:36:05 AM PDT by JohnKinAK

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What were they thinking to begin with?
1 posted on 05/23/2012 10:36:12 AM PDT by JohnKinAK
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Pepsi, it’s people!


2 posted on 05/23/2012 10:39:52 AM PDT by StormEye
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Now we need to get vaccine manufacturers to stop also!


3 posted on 05/23/2012 10:42:04 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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They were thinking that they hired a firm to accurately predict how their product would be received by the flavor receptors and this company came up with a method that works. Pepsi is by no means the only company that does this, flavor predicting is big difficult business.


4 posted on 05/23/2012 10:43:18 AM PDT by discostu (I did it 35 minutes ago)
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Prolly something along the lines of that this new aborted-fetus cell tech is neat, it’s cool, etc. And also it’s disgusting.

I’m glad that no more Baby Does are being used to verify that the Ya-hoo! is still in the Mountain Dew. Remember the trope that “No animals were harmed in this production”? And this was worse.


5 posted on 05/23/2012 10:43:26 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou, let me ABOs run loose! They are of much use Lou, so let me ABOs run loose)
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Now we need to get vaccine manufacturers to stop also!

I pointed this out to our pediatrician a couple months ago when I became aware of it, and she had no idea. First, I was shocked that I didn't already know about it, then I was even more surprised to learn that she knew nothing about it. How can this be kept so silent for so long?
6 posted on 05/23/2012 10:44:04 AM PDT by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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Well this company was once run by Mommy Dearest herself.


7 posted on 05/23/2012 10:44:23 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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Exactly. How utterly depraved we have become that someone has to actually point this out to begin with. We are a sick society.


8 posted on 05/23/2012 10:46:41 AM PDT by Obadiah (2008: Hope & Change -- 2012: Fear & Destruction)
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There is no substitute for the old fashioned taste test, if finding good flavors is the key.

What is weird is that these were not taste bud cells being used. These were kidney cells. It appeared to me that they were being used to verify the presence of trace chemicals that add nuance to flavor, so as to maintain the flavor quality of existing formulas.


9 posted on 05/23/2012 10:47:13 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou, let me ABOs run loose! They are of much use Lou, so let me ABOs run loose)
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Say what. I glad I swore of Carbonated Drinks years ago.

Pepsi’s Gatoraid has “Is it in you?” for a slogan. Recon Pepsi Slogan should be “Who is in you”


10 posted on 05/23/2012 10:50:59 AM PDT by Bailee
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Actually the old fashioned taste test is horrible. For one thing it’s notoriously inaccurate (you never know what people have eaten recently that effect how things will taste to them), and for another it tends to be expensive to be hauling people in off the street. The “old fashioned” that actually works is even more expensive because it means contracting with members of a very small group that have established themselves as having “accurate” taste buds which they take good care of (there’s a similar nose group for perfumes), these people have the physiology and the training to be able to detect if you enhanced the cherry 10% as was the goal.

It doesn’t matter where the cells came from, cells is cells and once you do the tweaking they do what you want. What’s important is their ability to have predictable bio-electric reactions so you can see the results of your change. Probably what’s going to happen is the testing company is going to secure a line of cells that came from a non-aborted source (possibly live sampling, possibly cadaver) and the process will continue on the same. They were probably being used two ways, testing tweaks in the chemical process designed to get the same taste for cheaper, and testing tweaks in the chemical process designed to make small changes to the flavor.


11 posted on 05/23/2012 10:56:07 AM PDT by discostu (I did it 35 minutes ago)
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Depravity sinks to a new low in America.


12 posted on 05/23/2012 10:57:40 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. - Prov 22:3)
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Thanks for your 2nd paragraph. I was really wondering what the cells were used for.

I don’t drink Pepsi anyway.


13 posted on 05/23/2012 11:10:23 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To the degree Pepsi continues to do business with this company it continues to ‘sit at the table’ with cannibals.


14 posted on 05/23/2012 11:21:15 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: discostu

It doesn’t matter where the cells came from, cells is cells and once you do the tweaking they do what you want. What’s important is their ability to have predictable bio-electric reactions so you can see the results of your change. Probably what’s going to happen is the testing company is going to secure a line of cells that came from a non-aborted source (possibly live sampling, possibly cadaver) and the process will continue on the same. They were probably being used two ways, testing tweaks in the chemical process designed to get the same taste for cheaper, and testing tweaks in the chemical process designed to make small changes to the flavor.
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So why don’t we just open some camps to get rid of useless eaters and use their cells? We could hire Dr. Menegle to remove the proper ones.

You sir, are extremely morally challenged.


15 posted on 05/23/2012 11:54:28 AM PDT by JohnKinAK
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Machs nix! We’ve dropped Pepsico.....AND Campbell soups, etc., and will NOT use them again!


16 posted on 05/23/2012 12:10:19 PM PDT by Tucker39 ( Psa 68:19Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits; even the God of our salvation.KJV)
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...Pepsi Slogan should be “Who is in you”.

Or:
"The taste? It varies, from person to person."

17 posted on 05/23/2012 12:12:15 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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Yeah, now I can try their lower sugar soda.


18 posted on 05/23/2012 12:21:54 PM PDT by tiki
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Also, most of the companies that were using this service bowed out when people asked them to but Pepsi refused. I guess they found out that their customers opinions matter.


19 posted on 05/23/2012 12:24:27 PM PDT by tiki
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You need to learn about logic over emotion. We already use cells for various types of experimentation from ALL the sources I outlined. Cells from live people they’re volunteers, most cells from cadavers also come from volunteers (organ donor, sold their corpse for science). The only non-volunteers are the cells from aborted fetuses. Also you should understand that one sampling goes a long way, they make the cells reproduce post harvest. One little skin scrapping that would wouldn’t even need a bandage to “recover” from can provide experimental cells for thousands of test for decades. Nobody is killing “useless eaters” that’s just hyperbole BS from people that can’t be bothered to understand what they’re talking about.


20 posted on 05/23/2012 12:30:22 PM PDT by discostu (I did it 35 minutes ago)
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