[surroundedbyblue]

"One 12-year-old Florida boy who learned of PepsiCo’s research from his mom’s prolife news reports was upset enough to take action himself. At a 40 Days for Life kickoff, Gene spoke passionately to the audience.

“When I found out about this, I was sick to my stomach,” he said. “I decided I wouldn’t let this happen so I came up with a way to boycott Pepsi products called United Schools for Life. This program will attempt to remove all Pepsi products from the schools in our diocese.” Gene hopes to spread his mission through the entire state."

God bless this little boy! I hope he's successful. While he's at it, he should contact Steubenville Univ - I noticed Pepsi products in their cafeteria this past summer when I went to a conference there. People need to know this information.....

[jpsb]

Is this article for real? This has got to be a sick joke.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Lets keep this going!

Let everyone know....It also just sounds so weird, it should have a real impact.

[dead]

PepsiCo did reply however, saying that this research, using cell lines derived from aborted babies, would produce “great tasting, lower-calorie beverages.” Who is their spokesman? Jonathan Swift?

[WKUHilltopper]

This has gotta be a joke...

[Notwithstanding]

Need to know more about this - usually emotions flare and people jump to conclusions. We should know exactly why we are outraged and we must be able to explain precisely how the company being boycotted is linked to a specific gravely immoral act.

At this point, the casual reader leaves the main post with an image of dead fetal cells in his Pepsi, which is not at all the case no matter how bad the situation is.

Pertinent questions:

Does the research that benefits Pepsi use cell lines derived by killing a human embryo to create the cell lines? One can’t know from the main post. If the answer is yes, then boycotting Pepsi seems to be nearly a moral obligation.

Does the research company hired by Pepsi use cell lines in OTHER research that is not done for Pepsi? One can’t know from the main post. If the answer is yes, then boycotting Pepsi is certainly not morally required and could be a waste of pro-life energy and resources.

[Ramius]

People actually believe this?

[Yaelle]

Simon Cowell likes drinking aborted babies??

(seriously, could this be true? )
(not about Simon)

[the_Watchman]

The assertions of the pro-life groups seems to be somewhat misleading, but the situation still is not good. The wikipedia page dealing with the company has a "talk" page where a poster sympathetic to Senomyx states that this company uses aborted human stem cells for testing responses to sweet substances. This makes more sense, but is less sensational than assuming that they are using these cells in the sweeteners. Of course the resulting use of fetal stem cells still is inexcusable to many of us and is clearly unnecessary.

[JimRed]

Soft drinks = cannibalism? Who knew?

[annieokie]

This is SICK. I WILL NEVER PURCHASE ANOTHER PEPSI PRODUCT.

Going now to pour out my new Liter of Pepsi.

What the h... were they thinking, is this a legal type of cannibalism?

[goodwithagun]

Please do not forget that the same process Pepsi uses for flavor testing is also used for vaccines! Here is a chart of vaccines that use the process: http://www.cogforlife.org/fetalvaccines.htm

[Notwithstanding]

This is interesting in light of the recent HESC patent denial in Europe; the Euroweenie Court of Justice unanimously supported a German court’s verdict that you can’t patent something that was derived by embryo-destructive research. The court ruled that it was immoral to profit financially from killing an embryo.

I wonder if this Senomyx company’s patent for this flavor research method would be valid in Europe?

[RichInOC]

When they called it “the taste of a new generation”...they weren’t kidding.

[monkeyshine]

I can’t believe this is even real. People are are going to become cannibals simply to enhance the flavor of junk food?

This is beyond sick.

[Batrachian]

I don't know why anyone would touch that nasty tasting stuff anyway when they can drink pure, delicious Coke that not only tastes better, but was not made from dead babies. That has to count for something!

I'm changing my tag line to reflect my new awareness of this issue.

[Lx]

So, do different races or genders produce better tasting product?

They even get credit for recycling!

[cpforlife.org]

30 minute interview with Children of God for Life Executive Director, Debi Vinnedge. From yesterday (TUE OCT 25) Very informative.

http://kgov.com/bel/20111025

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