Posted on 12/17/2017 10:25:46 AM PST by Morgana
PepsiCo has come under fire from pro-life advocates because it has been contracting with a research firm that uses fetal cells from babies victimized by abortions to test and produce artificial flavor enhancers.
Now, the Obama administration is set to face more criticism because an agency has declared that Pepsi’s use of the company and its controversial flavor testing process constitutes “ordinary business.”
In a decision delivered February 28, the Security and Exchange Commission ruled that PepsiCo’s use of aborted fetal remains in their research and development agreement with Senomyx to produce flavor enhancers falls under “ordinary business operations.”
Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director of Children of God for Life, the organization that exposed the PepsiCo- Senomyx collaboration last year, informed LifeNews today that a letter signed by Attorney Brian Pitko of the SEC Office of Chief Counsel was sent in response to a 36-page document submitted by PepsiCo attorneys in January 2012. In that filing, PepsiCo pleaded with the SEC to reject a Shareholder’s Resolution filed in October 2011 that the company “adopt a corporate policy that recognizes human rights and employs ethical standards which do not involve using the remains of aborted human beings in both private and collaborative research and development agreements.”
PepsiCo lead attorney George A. Schieren noted that the resolution should be excluded because it “deals with matters related to the company’s ordinary business operations” and that “certain tasks are so fundamental to run a company on a day-to-day basis that they could not be subject to stockholder oversight.”
Vinnedge said she is appalled by the apathy and insensitivity of both PepsiCo executives and the Obama administration.
“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
Vinnedge said PepsiCo also requested the resolution be excluded because it “probed too deeply into matters of a complex nature upon which shareholders cannot make an informed judgment.”
“In other words, PepsiCo thinks its stockholders are too stupid to understand what they are doing with the remains of aborted children,” she said. “Well they are about to find out just how smart the public really is when they turn up the heat on the world-wide boycott.”
Vinnedge is warning consumers to be on guard for the roll-out of PepsiCo’s newest beverage that claims to cut sugar and calories by 50%. The product is called Pepsi Next and is anticipated to hit the market in the coming weeks. Since PepsiCo stated that their goal with Senomyx is to produce new beverages with reduced sugars and calories, she wonders if Pepsi Next is the new Senomyx-PepsiCo creation?
“While fetal components are currently not in the final product, there is growing concern among consumers that it could happen in the near future. With the explosion of health foods on the market, there is nothing to stop companies from using fetal remains as protein ingredients,” she told LifeNews. “Impossible, you say? Actually because of GRAS rules (Generally Accepted as Safe) it might not even trigger FDA oversight. And that has consumers plenty worried about just what might be “next” from the industry.”
She says the latest development makes Oklahoma Senator Ralph Shortey’s SB1418 banning the sale of products that are developed with or contain aborted fetal remains critically important for consumer protection.
“We commend the Senator for his courageous move,” noted Vinnedge. “The public is already saying no thanks to all Pepsi beverages and Pepsi Next is just that – the “next” product to avoid.”
As recently as May, Pepsi ignored concerns and criticism from dozens of pro-life groups and tens of thousands of pro-life people who voiced their opposition to PepsiCo contracting with biotech company Senomyx even after it was found to be testing their food additives using fetal cells from abortions.
“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 explained, “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. They could have easily chosen animal, insect, or other morally obtained human cells expressing the G protein for taste receptors.”
ACTION: Contact these companies…
Jamie Caulfield, Sr. VP PepsiCo, Inc. 700 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY 10577 (914) 253-2000 Email form: http://cr.pepsi.com/usen/pepsiusen.cfm?time=5189878
This explains the new Soylent Green Pepsi coming out next year.
“Have not drank Pepsi since first read this “
Haven’t had a carbonated drink since about 1985 when my urologist took me to his white board and drew out the stoichiometric equations that merged CO2 with uric acid to make my kidney stones. Now the stuff tastes so foul to me that I can’t even sip some at a party.
But, had I know about this, I’d have quit anyway.
Should be fair and say that Pro life people won....Pepsi quit...
Still I don’t trust them..I drink RC Cola
Barf alert.
Exactly with you there. If there would have even done it ONCE, what else might they do? And if they would use aborted cell in research... is it such a stretch to think they might also LIE?
“Should be fair and say that Pro life people won....Pepsi quit...
Still I don’t trust them..I drink RC Cola”
Can you imagine had Pepsi won on this, and can you imagine the increase in demand of aborted baby parts had it taken off as the product they imagined?
Diet Shasta is all we drink at the ranch. Tastes the same as Diet Coke, but cheaper.
The fact they would even consider using it once means have have no moral compass.
Me too. Urologist had to go through my back to remove my kidney stones. Went over my diet and used to drink 3-4 Diet Cokes per day. Not anymore. Coffee and water only.
Wasn’t this debunked a few years ago?
Thanks Morgana.
Always been a Coke guy. It has that edge that cuts through the thirst that Pepsi doesn’t do
After hiking about 45 miles on one stretch of the Application Trail, having drank noting but spring water for three days, I stopped in town to resupply. I had a Mountain Dew - bam it hit me like Red Bull... but I also experienced the negative aspects of Sodas that I had never actually noticed prior. While a cold coke is good sometimes, I know that my body bloats just a bit with these drinks. I could immediately tell that my body had a Soda vs the Spring Water. It took backpacking to purge my body of junk and even scarfing down a Snickers or Pop Tart was a sort of experiment of introducing different sugars, cards, or C02’s and I have since been “aware” to this awakening.
The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.
I'm with you. When it comes to money and business ethics, I don't trust ANYONE.
Another source for future autism????
This is postively disgusting.
Yes.
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