Do Aborted Babies Enhance the Flavor of the Food You Eat?
Biotech Company Uses Fetal Stem Cells to Test Food
Biotech Companies Using Stem Cells
Popular food companies are working with a biotech company called Senomyx to test their foods. The goal of the testing is to find food additives to reduce the amount of MSG, salt, and sugar used in the foods that they produce. Semonyx receives money to do the research, along with royalties when foods using their ingredients are sold. The fetal stem cell line, taken from the kidney of an electively aborted baby, is used to test the biochemical reaction when exposed to the food ingredients. Although they could have used cells derived from other forms of life, they chose to use the fetal stem cells.
Companies Using this Technology
Currently, the companies that have decided to partner with Semonyx include Nestlé, Pepsico, Kraft (which included Cadbury Chocolate), and Solae. Campbell's Soup did have a partnership with this company, but they chose to break their relationships with the biotech company shortly after the pro-life group Children of God for Life sent out a press release about their involvement.
Eating Real Food
If the idea of eating foods using ingredients that were developed using fetal stem cell lines leaves a bad taste in your mouth, you can avoid buying products from the companies that are working with Semonyx. Unfortunately, this includes some of the biggest brands in the food industry. This also doesn't guarantee that other companies won't start working with Semonyx in the future in order to develop their own food ingredients. The best way to guarantee that you won't be eating food with these products is to eat real food using natural ingredients. There's no telling whether the ingredients that Semonyx develops won't be worse than the MSG, salt, and sugar that they are trying to replace. With real food, especially if they are taken from an organic source, you can guarantee that you're eating food obtained without the help of cells derived from an aborted baby.
Source:Semonyx Alert, Children of God for Life, 29 March 2011.
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12 Comments
Post a CommentYes, they do. I am planning to slow smoke two stuffed and bacon wrapped aborted fetuses for my Superbowl party. With the right seasonings and condiments they will be the hit of the party, even better than the bacon explosions I usually serve up. Num, num, nummy.
GET REAL PEOPLE.
Guess everyone missed the line:
"they are not actually putting aborted fetal cells into your food"
Oh yeah. You neanderthals just read headlines. Ug Ug. Bad.
I will boycott everything that is made with baby juice in it.
I mean dead babys,no I mean gods little ones.It is a sin if you eat people(babys).
SIN-SIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A SIN
WE ALL MUST BOYCOTT THIS CRAP FOOD AND DRINK.
ALSO
BOYCOOT ALL SHOTS,it is in all the shots they put in your arm or butt.
Total evil.
It alls good till somebody looses an eye. Its easy to have an opinion on these thing when you don't see them affecting your own life in a negative way, but when you are a ward of the state till the age of 21, and your carers make choices for you, aborting your child for scientific purposes, your opinion might change a little on the right and wrong of the matter.
Ok that is just gross that's the last time I'm buying any of those products.
You psycho cannibals.
Just because we are ABLE to do something, doesn't mean that we SHOULD. The scientific community has rationalized the use of aborted human fetuses based on the fact that they are available and that the cells have been used widely in research. (BTW the HEK 293 cells are not stem cells.) Although there is history showing that the original discovery and use of these cells began in the 70's, companies who develop and sell these cells today are unwilling to divulge the resource to their ongoing production. AND, how is using these cells to test the "taste" of food and beverages prevention? If you want prevention and healthy food, don't eat too much chocolate (Nestle/Cadbury), don't drink diet pop, fake baked chips or junk snacks (Pepsico) and eat an organic, unmodified apple. I've never heard of someone becoming obese or getting cancer from one of them. Get real people.
Just because we are ABLE to do something, doesn't mean that we SHOULD. The scientific community has rationalized the use of aborted human fetuses based on the fact that they are available and that the cells have been used widely in research. (BTW the HEK 293 cells are not stem cells.) Although there is history showing that the original discovery and use of these cells began in the 70's, companies who develop and sell these cells today are unwilling to divulge the resource to their ongoing production. AND, how is using these cells to test the "taste" of food and beverages prevention? If you want prevention and healthy food, don't eat too much chocolate (Nestle/Cadbury), don't drink diet pop, fake baked chips or junk snacks (Pepsico) and eat an organic, unmodified apple. I've never heard of someone becoming obese or getting cancer from one of them. Get real people.
So its OK to use these cells to cure disease but not to get HFCS, salt and MSG out of processed foods. Where exactly do we draw the line between prevention and cure.
If these cells are available why in the world would we not use them. Is the assertion that these companies are killing babies to get at their stem cells. That's the way this sounds..
The Human Embryonic Kidney (HEK) 293 cell line being used has been around since the early 70s and were derived from a cultured fetal kidney. They are among the most widely used stem cell lines in research science today.
So..lets prevent food companies from improving the healthiness of their products, potentially preventing them from addressing obesity and rampant diabetes so we can protest the abortion of a fetus 35-40 years ago.
Makes perfect sense to me. Guess it's just more fun to whip up the pro life troops than to actually address the serious health risks of obesity and all the maladies that come with it.
This is just SICK!! SHAME on these companies!!