Thread: Some Food and Vaccines Contain Aborted Cells

http://www.lifenews.com/2011/12/13/do-y ... ted-cells/

Do You Know if Your Food or Vaccines Contain Aborted Cells?



by Susan Tyrrell | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 12/13/11 5:37 PM


Little upsets pro-life people more than learning that things they consider innocent are actually tainted with the shedding of innocent blood. This long list of guilt-ridden products includes childhood vaccines, wrinkle creams and even your favorite soft drinks and chewing gum

The problem is, it’s hard to keep it all straight even if you are trying to avoid putting products in you that are obtained through the death of a baby. Fortunately, Children of God for Life
http://cogforlife.org/ has produced an easy reference guide—a one page list of fetal call products.

HERE IS THE LIST OF PEPSI, KRAFT, NESTLE, CADBERRY AND VACCINE PHARMA COMPANIES USING ABORTED FETAL CELLS.
CLICK HERE FOR A PDF DOWNLOAD OF FETAL CELL PRODUCTS.

http://cogforlife.org/fetalproductsall.pdf

It’s also important to note that financial support of any company using fetal cells for its products keeps them afloat. In the case of Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Nestle, Kraft, Cadbury, et. al., many have chosen to abstain from all of the company’s products (myself included) until they find better ways to test flavor receptors than the cells of an aborted baby. Many people have accused those reporting on this to be spreading rumors, but they are substantiated facts. Even PepsiCo’s shareholders, who are not a religious or pro-life group, filed a resolution with the government office,
http://bound4life.com/blog/2011/10/26/p ... r-research the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to demand they stop using fetal cell derived products because it was unnecessary and hurting business.

Additionally, many other companies are using fetal cells as a regular product ingredient in vaccines, skin creams, and other items. These days it seems like you have to do research on everything you buy to be sure an aborted baby didn’t help supply it. You can find some general background on what we have called the “Industry of Deathâ€

Can some of yall look into this and message me if you think this is true?

Is it true that abortion clinics are selling the aborted fetal material to companies to be used in products we consume?

W

About Senomyx

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Sensing the Future Through Innovation.


Discovery & Development...
Senomyx is discovering and developing innovative flavor ingredients for the food, beverage, and ingredient supply industries using our unique proprietary technologies. We believe that our novel flavors, flavor enhancers, and bitter blockers will enable our collaborators to improve the nutritional profile of their products and/or achieve a competitive advantage while maintaining or enhancing taste.

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. In addition, Senomyx has a bitter blocker program to reduce or block bitter tastes and thereby improve the taste characteristics of foods, beverages and pharmaceutical products. Senomyx also has a cool flavor program for the discovery of novel flavor ingredients intended to provide a cooling taste effect for confectioneries, foods and beverages, as well as oral care and OTC healthcare products.

Commercialization...
Senomyx has six savory flavors that were discovered and developed in-house and have received regulatory approval in the U.S. and many additional countries. Nestlé is currently marketing products that contain one of Senomyx's Savory Flavors in the Pacific Rim, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.

Ajinomoto, Co., Inc. is currently introducing products that contain a Senomyx flavor ingredient in Asia, North America, and an emerging market with large growth potential.

Senomyx has received a GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) regulatory designation for S2383, an extremely effective enhancer of the high-intensity sweetener sucralose that was discovered and developed by the Company. The GRAS determination allows S2383 to be incorporated into products such as beverages, cereal, dairy products, baked goods, and confectionaries in the U.S. and in numerous other countries. S2383 can be used to reduce the sucralose in these products by up to 75% while maintaining the desired sweet taste.

Senomyx has granted Firmenich exclusive rights to commercialize S2383 worldwide. Firmenich initiated commercialization of S2383 in the first quarter of 2011.

S6973, which enhances the taste of sucrose (common table sugar), received a GRAS designation that allows usage in numerous food products including baked goods, cereals, gum, condiments and relishes, confectioneries and frostings, frozen dairy offerings, fruit ices, gelatins and puddings, hard and soft candy, jams and jellies, milk products, and sauces. The GRAS status also includes instant coffee and tea, as well as imitation dairy products. S6973, which was discovered and developed by Senomyx, enables the reduction of up to 50% of the sucrose present in product prototypes while maintaining the sweet taste of natural sugar.

Senomyx has granted Firmenich exclusive rights to commercialize S6873 worldwide. Firmenich initiated commercialization of S6973 during the second quarter of 2011.

Collaborations...
Senomyx has entered into product discovery and development collaborations with several of the world's leading food, beverage, and ingredient supply companies. These collaborations provide Senomyx with research and development funding, milestone payments based upon achievement of research or development goals, and royalties on sales of products incorporating our flavor ingredients. We are primarily responsible for the discovery, development and regulatory approval of our new flavor ingredients, while each collaborator will bear the costs and responsibilities for manufacturing, marketing, selling and distributing its consumer products that contain Senomyx flavor ingredients. This arrangement is intended to allow Senomyx to benefit from our collaborators' brand recognition, global market presence, established sales and distribution channels, and other industry specific expertise.


http://www.senomyx.com/company/

Now, I wonder just what S6873 and S6973 are made of.

Aborted Fetal Tissue Used to Test New Food Additives

Submitted by Lois Rain on June 1, 2011 – 2:51 pm5 Comments
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Unlike what the wording of source articles suggest – No, you are not eating aborted fetal tissue in new food products. Stem cells and aborted fetal tissue are, however, used in the process of testing new flavor additives. The rationale for this method is to find additives allowing the reduction of MSG, salt, and sugar in food ingredients.
Some may not mind stem cell research for other purposes, but for artificial food additives? Newly manufactured ones that may be worse than current ingredients? All the more reason to ditch process foods and stop supporting the food companies condoning this method, whether it’s the stem cell research or the new food additives or both that grinds your gears.
Popular food companies team up with a biotech company called Senomyx to test new foods. Pro-life group Children of God brought this knowledge to the forefront, holding that such testing can be achieved via other methods, including using other forms of life if necessary or even morally obtained human cells. They are calling for boycotts and respectful protest letter writing to such companies as Nestle, Pepsi, and Kraft among others.
Due to consumer response, Campbell’s Soup severed their partnership with Senomyx. Children of God is also in the fight against the use of aborted fetal cell lines known to be in vaccines.
Pepsi tried to weasel out of the claims with a sneaky response (below). Pepsi tried to make it appear that the writer said that aborted stem cells were in Pepsi ingredients or that Pepsi conducted research using the stem cell method. They know they partner with Senomyx that clearly uses this method, see here and here.
~Health Freedoms

Do Aborted Babies Enhance the Flavor of the Food You Eat?

Do you owe the taste of your food to aborted babies? While the question sounds ridiculous, the fact is that you might. Some companies are using stem cell lines derived from an aborted fetus to test flavor enhancers for the food that you eat every day. Although they are not actually putting aborted fetal cells into your food, they are using these cells in the laboratory to develop chemicals to make your food taste better. Some of the brands that are using this kind of testing include Pepsico, Kraft, and Nestlé. Although there are plenty of people that don’t have an ethical problem with using stem cell lines to help cure disease, do we really want them to be used to develop our food? Perhaps this is another reason to eat minimally processed 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.
By: Brooke Lorren

Pepsi response to a protest letter:

Dishonest: PepsiCo
From: noreply@pepsi.com
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 4:00 PM
Subject: A Message from PepsiCo Consumer Relations 012652620A
“Thank you for contacting us to share your sincere concerns. Please know that we take very seriously the issues you raised. PepsiCo has a strong set of defined values
we strive to live up to. Unfortunately, there is some misinformation being circulated related to research techniques that have been used for decades by universities,
hospitals, government agencies, and private companies around the world. These claims are meant to suggest that human fetal tissue is somehow used in our research.
That is both inaccurate and something we would never do or even consider.
It also is inaccurate to suggest that tissue or cells somehow are being used as product ingredients. That’s dangerous, unethical and against the law. Every ingredient in
every one of our products is reviewed and approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
We hope this information is helpful and reassuring. Thank you again for reaching out to us and allowing us to clarify the situation.”
Margaret Corsi
Consumer Relations Representative

How To Respond To PepsiCo:
Dear Ms. Corsi,
Thank you for responding to my letter.
I did not say that PepsiCo was using human fetal tissue in their products nor have I heard of anyone suggesting that. It appears that Pepsi is spreading misinformation
in this regard. However, PepsiCo is funding research and development of artificial flavor enhancers to be used in your beverages that are made by Senomyx – and they
are using aborted fetal cell line HEK-293 in that R&D.
It seems that PepsiCo is trying to obfuscate the facts here by insinuating you are not guilty by association, when according to Senomyx, you are a partner, a collaborator
and a financial backer. Which is it?
Clearly, you do have a marketing problem – Senomyx is specifically implicating your company on their website ( http://senomyx.com/collaborations/partnerships.htm )
and this is a problem for me, and I suspect millions of other consumers who have joined or are planning to join the boycott.
Sources:
http://mobile.associatedcontent.com/...ed_babies_enha

http://www.cogforlife.org/senomyxalert.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC123709/
http://www.cogforlife.org/senomyxpartnersrespond.htm


http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/06/01...ood-additives/

Human receptors for sweet and umami taste

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC123709/

Abstract

The three members of the T1R class of taste-specific G protein-coupled receptors have been hypothesized to function in combination as heterodimeric sweet taste receptors. Here we show that human T1R2/T1R3 recognizes diverse natural and synthetic sweeteners. In contrast, human T1R1/T1R3 responds to the umami taste stimulus l-glutamate, and this response is enhanced by 5′-ribonucleotides, a hallmark of umami taste. The ligand specificities of rat T1R2/T1R3 and T1R1/T1R3 correspond to those of their human counterparts. These findings implicate the T1Rs in umami taste and suggest that sweet and umami taste receptors share a common subunit.

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Material and Methods
T1R Cloning. Intronless human T1R expression constructs were generated in a pEAK10-derived vector (Edge Biosystems, Gaithersburg, MD) by a combination of cDNA-based and genomic DNA-based methods. To generate the full-length T1R1 expression construct, two 5′ coding exons identified in a cloned T1R1 interval (GenBank accession no. AL159177) were combined by PCR overlap and then joined to a 5′-truncated testis cDNA clone. The T1R2 expression construct was generated from a partially sequenced T1R2 genomic interval. Two missing T1R2 5′ introns were identified by screening shotgun libraries of the cloned genomic interval using probes derived from the corresponding rat coding sequence. Coding exons then were combined by PCR overlap to produce the full-length expression construct. The T1R3 expression construct was generated by PCR overlap from a sequenced T1R3 genomic interval (GenBank accession no. AL139287). Rat T1R3 was isolated from a taste-tissue-derived cDNA library by using a rat T1R3 exon fragment generated by human T1R3-based degenerate PCR.
G_α15 chimeras were generated in a pEAK10-derived vector by PCR with mutagenic primers. The five-residue C-terminal tail of G_α15, EINLL, was replaced with EYNLV (G_αq and G_α11), EFNLV (G_α14), QYELL (G_αs and G_αolf), DCGLF (G_αi1, G_αi2, G_αt1, G_αt2, and G_αgust), ECGLY (G_αi3), GCGLY (G_αo1 and G_αo2), YIGLC (G_αz), DIMLQ (G_α12), or QLMLQ (G_α13).

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Results and Discussion
We cloned human and rat T1Rs for functional expression experiments (Fig. ​(Fig.1).1). The G protein or G proteins that couple to the T1Rs in vivo are not known. Consequently, we transiently transfected the human T1Rs into a HEK-293-derived cell line that stably expresses G_α15, a promiscuous phospholipase C-linked G protein (15, 16). Sucrose elicited transient intracellular calcium increases in G_α15 cells cotransfected with human T1R2 and T1R3 but not in cells transfected with T1R2 or T1R3 alone. T1R2/T1R3 activity was inhibited by the sweet taste inhibitor lactisole (17); this inhibition likely reflects antagonism at the T1R2/T1R3 receptor, because lactisole did not inhibit the G_α15-dependent activity of endogenous β₂-adrenergic receptor (Fig. ​(Fig.22A). In addition to sucrose, T1R2/T1R3 responded to all other sweet taste stimuli tested: the sugars fructose, galactose, glucose, lactose, and maltose; the amino acids glycine and d-tryptophan (but not its bitter enantiomer); the sweet proteins monellin and thaumatin; and the synthetic sweeteners acesulfame K, aspartame, cyclamate, dulcin, neotame, saccharin, and sucralose (Fig. ​(Fig.22B).

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC123709/

So aborted fetal tissue is used in testing but NOT in products we consume?

Please dont post me to much material on this, i dont have the time to read right now.

W

No fetuses in food: Oklahoma lawmaker explains intent behind bill

January 26, 2012 | 1:13pm

He’s being lampooned on blogs, news sites, Twitter and Gawker.

But state Sen. Ralph Shortey, the Oklahoma lawmaker who introduced a bill banning the use of human fetuses in food, is surprised his legislative effort has gotten so much attention.

The Twitterverse was abuzz this week with tweets reading: "This just in: my husband Kevin went to high school with Ralph 'fetus food' Shortey." Another: "Too much aborted human fetus in YOUR food? Senator Ralph Shortey can help!"

The bill was among 70 measures an assistant filed for Shortey last Thursday, the deadline for introducing legislation.

On Monday, after returning from tending to family matters and a weekend quail hunt, he was met with a phone that was ringing off the hook, and, in only a few days, a deluge of 400 emails flooding his inbox.

“I’ve gotten so much hate mail,” Shortey said Thursday in a phone interview from Texas. (The freshman senator said he was on his way to Austin with a youth group with which he volunteers.)

The Oklahoma City Republican explained that the bill was introduced after he did some research online and found reports of a 2010 boycott of Pepsi Co. by Children of God For Life, an anti-abortion group based in Florida.

The boycott backers claim that Pepsi Co. was contracting with Senomyx, a San Diego-based company, that allegedly was using human embryonic stem cells in the testing of artificial flavors.

Pepsi and Senomyx have denied those allegations, but Shortey was undeterred.

“Are fetuses being chopped up and put in our Doritos?” he asked. “No.”

But he said he believes these embryonic stem cells are being used in research by private companies.

“I want a serious conversation about this,” Shortey told the Los Angeles Times. “This wasn’t an open invitation for the country to chime in. This was an invitation to my colleagues to have this discussion.”

The bill -- a couple of paragraphs his assistant wrote up and he reviewed -- reads: "No person or entity shall manufacture or knowingly sell food or any other product intended for human consumption which contains aborted human fetuses in the ingredients or which used aborted human fetuses in the research or development of any of the ingredients."

Shortey said he intends to revise the bill, known as SB 1418, before pushing for the measure to be heard in committee.

Federal food safety officials have never heard of such a thing. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman told the Associated Press that the agency has never gotten any reports of fetuses being used in food production.

Shortey, elected in 2010, has introduced a spate of controversial bills, including one that would deny Oklahoma citizenship to children of illegal immigrants born in the state. Another bill he wrote would have allowed police to confiscate the homes and cars of illegal immigrants. He also tried to advance a bill that would have required presidential candidates to provide proof of citizenship before being allowed on Oklahoma's primary ballot.

None of Shortey's controversial bills have become law.

As news began circulating this week of his latest legislative priority, Twitter users and humor sites were rife with disbelief and amusement. "Way to keep the crazy title for OK," wrote one person.

But the lampooning doesn’t bother Shortey. “The first attack is to make that issue or person look ridiculous,” he said. “And I’ve got thick skin. I don’t care what people think about me.”

Asked if he believes everything he reads on the Internet, Shortey said: “Absolutely not. I don’t just look at something and say this must be true. But I’ve done some digging.”

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