The Nazis used human skin to make lovely lampshades.That old saying really *is* true..."there's nothing new under the sun".
Posted on 07/30/2015 6:24:46 PM PDT by Morgana
A pro-life group that monitors the use of cells from babies victimized by abortions is today highlighting a biotech company, Senomyx, which it says produces artificial flavor enhancers using aborted fetal cell lines to test their products.
The group Children of God for Life is calling for a public boycott of major food companies partnering with Senomyx.
Debi Vinnedge, the director of the pro-life organization, tells LifeNews.com today that, in 2010, her group wrote to Senomyx CEO Kent Snyder and pointed out that moral options for testing their food additives could and should be used. But when Senomyx ignored her letter, the group wrote to the companies Senomyx listed on their website as “collaborators” warning them of public backlash and threatened boycott. They included food giants PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, Campbell Soup, Solae and Nestlé. (See update below.)
“The company’s key flavor programs focus on the discovery and development of savory, sweet and salt flavor ingredients that are intended to allow for the reduction of MSG, sugar and salt in food and beverage products,” the Senomyx web site says. “Using isolated human taste receptors, we created proprietary taste receptor-based assay systems that provide a biochemical or electronic readout when a flavor ingredient interacts with the receptor.”
Vinnedge says a boycott is important because the collaborating companies provide Senomyx with research and development funding plus royalties on sales of products using their flavor ingredients.
“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,” she said. “They could have easily chosen animal, insect, or other morally obtained human cells expressing the G protein for taste receptors.”
Vinnedge says she has contacted the food companies working with Senomyx, but said it took three letters before one company, Nestlé, finally admitted its relationship with Senomyx and company officials claimed the line of cells from abortions was “well established in scientific research”.
Both PepsiCo and Campbell Soup also responded.
PepsiCo wrote: “We hope you are reassured to learn that our collaboration with Senomyx is strictly limited to creating lower-calorie, great-tasting beverages for consumers. This will help us achieve our commitment to reduce added sugar per serving by 25% in key brands in key markets over the next decade and ultimately help people live healthier lives.”
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Campbell Soup officials told the pro-life group: “Every effort is made to use the finest ingredients and develop the greatest selection of products, all at a great value. With this in mind, it must be said that the trust we have cultivated and developed over the years with our consumers is not worth compromising to cut costs or increase profit margins.”
While Campbell Soup didn’t state they would change their methods, their response, gave Vinnedge hope.
“If enough people voice their outrage and intent to boycott these consumer products, it may convince Senomyx to change their methods,” she said. “Otherwise, we will be buying Coca-Cola, Lipton soups and Hershey products.”
UPDATE: Within hours of its press statement to LifeNews.com, the pro-life group received notice from Campbell Soup that the company has severed its ties with Senomyx. Juli Mandel Sloves, Senior Manager of Nutrition & Wellness Communications at Campbell Soup Company, told Vinnedge, “We are no longer in partnership with Senomyx. This fact was discussed during the Senomyx conference call with its investors earlier this month.”
ACTION: Contact the companies at:
Kent Snyder, CEO Senomyx 4767 Nexus Centre Drive San Diego, California 92121
Edmund M. Carpenter, CEO Campbell Soup 1 Campbell Place Camden, NJ 08103-1701
Paul Bulcke, CEO Nestlé USA 800 North Brand Boulevard Glendale, CA 91203
Jamie Caulfield, Sr.VP PepsiCo, Inc. 700 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY 10577
Irene Rosenfeld, CEO Kraft Foods/Cadbury Chocolate Three Lakes Drive Northfield, IL 60093
Mr. Torkel Rhenman Chief Executive Officer Solae 4300 Duncan Avenue St. Louis, Missouri 63110
Well it’s just a darn good thing they are using animals for testing, huh.
Yea using Lions are a real no-no!
The Nazis used human skin to make lovely lampshades.That old saying really *is* true..."there's nothing new under the sun".
I think I’m going to be sick.
Man, now I have to go nuke my kitchen!
At least I’ll have soup.
Have those in the chain of research and use no sense of humanity? How did we get to this point?
Oh God. This is evil to its core.
I think it is important to be honest and accurate.
The company does not “use cells from abortions to test Artificial flavors”.
They use a cell line developed in 1973 in Europe that did use cells from an elective abortion in creating the cell line.
The headline dishonestly implies the company is using tissue from multiple contemporary abortions on an ongoing basis which is not even close to being true.
Sure adds a new pejorative meaning to the word "frankenfood".
I prefer to think of it as ObamaFood!!
Is that an Ed Gein shade?
Yup, because all that fake food creates the need for Obamacare.
We all ate that crap growing up and look at us, we are still alive.
Devils Food....also comes to mind.... for some reason
Frankenfluids? :)
Franken Fluids as well!!
word is that babys parts are an integral ingredient in...yes... PANTHER WHIZZ ALE
I HEREGY DARE Barack Hussein Mohammed Obam TO ADDRESS this ISSUE by WEEKS END!
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