[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.

[DesertRhino]

Ohhhhh i see. Theres no aborted cells in the flavor enhancers. They just use stem cells from line number HEK293 to test new flavor enhancers on. Well that changes EVERTHING!

Was pepsi in the 1940s really so bad? Does it really need flavor enhancers tested on stem cell receptors? No matter how you slice it,,,it’s not appetizing to think of scientists doing Frankenstein experiments to make my brain think pepsi tastes better.

weird weird weird,,,

[blueunicorn6]

At the Donner party, all they serve is pepsi!

[Western Phil]

From: http://hek293.com/

“The source of the cells was a healthy, aborted fetus. The name HEK293 is thusly named because it was Frank Graham’s 293rd experiment.”

People see the issue as to whether they want to be supporting the Mengele approach to research.