Can someone explain to me in simple terms exactly how one could taste test anything using aborted fetus cells?
They use the cells as they to test for a specific flavor profile. The cells are only activated by the flavor they are designed for.
from the article - “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.”
You have to think in terms of a laboratory somewhere growing these aborted cells perpetually in order to do their testing. Growing all sorts of cells in labs is SOP in many biomaterial companies. This company may be purchasing them all prepared for their assay systems or they may be growing them but they are using them - that we know:
“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.”
They are using HEK 293 – human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors.
They are using these cells, these human embryonic kidney cells, as if they are any other biochemical compound in a racheted up litmus test...the cells being part of the litmus to proof their flavors as being accurate to their control flavor.