Nestle, Pepsi, Solae, and Kraft Use Cells From Aborted Babies to Test Artificial Flavors. Campbell Soup Rejects Methods.

I saw this mentioned last week but was waiting for some sort of verification. The fact that Campbell Soup responded honorably by severing ties with the company providing this testing methodology is verification enough for me.

This just shows what a slippery slope we are on in treating unborn children as a "choice" for any reason.

“The company’s [Senomyx] 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.”

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“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,” she said. “They could have easily chosen animal, insect, or other morally obtained human cells expressing the G protein for taste receptors.”

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Within hours of its press statement to LifeNews.com, the pro-life group received notice from Campbell Soup that the company has severed its ties with Senomyx. Juli Mandel Sloves, Senior Manager of Nutrition & Wellness Communications at Campbell Soup Company, told Vinnedge, “We are no longer in partnership with Senomyx. This fact was discussed during the Senomyx conference call with its investors earlier this month.”

Read the entire story here. (Via Mark Shea, whose piece was via New Advent.)

You should see what PepsiCo responded. Talk about clueless.

This gives a whole new meaning to fasting for life. I am actually not sure if I even buy Kraft, Nestle, Solae, or Pepsi products, since companies often have tentacles in places that aren't obvious these days.

If I boycotted tuna for years to save dolphins (and I did, just ask my family) then how much more will I do so to stop this hideous practice?

The other thing we can do is to contact the companies themselves with our protests. I myself am also going to be sending the Campbell CEO a thank you note. Positive reinforcement is a good thing too.

Contact the companies at:

Kent Snyder, CEO
Senomyx
4767 Nexus Centre Drive
San Diego, California 92121

Paul Bulcke, CEO
Nestlé USA
800 North Brand Boulevard
Glendale, CA 91203

Jamie Caulfield, Sr.VP
PepsiCo, Inc.
700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577

Irene Rosenfeld, CEO
Kraft Foods/Cadbury Chocolate
Three Lakes Drive
Northfield, IL 60093

Mr. Torkel Rhenman Chief Executive Officer
Solae
4300 Duncan Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri 63110

Contact Campbell with appreciation at:

Edmund M. Carpenter, CEO
Campbell Soup
1 Campbell Place
Camden, NJ 08103-1701

UPDATE:
My letters are done and going out today.

SECOND UPDATE
Solae also stopped using this company for their testing. Good for them!