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"The Pepsi Epidemic"

So, as you may or may not have heard about, there was a little "Pepsi Epidemic" that happened a little while ago that made a lot of Pro-Lifer's completely get rid of all Pepsi products.

I'm going to take a little bit of an article from the website LifeSiteNews.

"Despite documents clearly showing that Pepsi has partnered with a research organization that uses cells derived from an aborted baby in flavor research, in a statement sent to LifeSiteNews this week, PepsiCo has denied the allegations. As LifeSiteNews previously reported, the soft drink producer has been under fire from pro-life organizations for contracting with Senomyx, a company known to use cells originally derived from an aborted fetus in flavor research.


A PepsiCo shareholder also protested the contract in a shareholder resolution filed last year with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), asking 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.”
Jeff Dahncke, senior director of communications at PepsiCo, told LifeSiteNews in a recent email that the company “does not conduct or fund research that utilizes any human tissue or cell lines derived from human embryos or fetuses.”
The company has reportedly sent similar emails to consumers who wrote in protest of Senomyx’s practices.
But Debi Vinnedge, executive director of Children of God for Life, an organization which has been at the forefront of promoting the pro-life boycott of Pepsi, says the denials simply don’t stand up in light of the clear facts.
According to Vinnedge, there is incontrovertible evidence that Senomyx’s work on behalf of Pepsi utilizes cell lines ultimately derived from an aborted baby, since that is the only kind of cell line the biotech company uses in its sweetener patents. Under a 2010 contract between the two companies, Senomyx is developing artificial high-potency sweeteners for PepsiCo.
“They have other cell lines they use in their patents that could be used, and we’ve encouraged Senomyx to do that, but they are not doing that,” she told LifeSiteNews.
According to Vinnedge, Pepsi’s misleading claim that its research does not use aborted baby tissue likely rests on the fact that the process by which Senomyx obtains the cell lines may be a few steps removed from the originally harvested cells. Cells obtained from human tissue are typically cultivated in a lab so that they grow and multiply, and are then sold to companies like Senomyx.
“They’re not taking it directly from the fetus, that’s how they get away with saying what they’re saying,” she explained, adding that “the cell line still contains the full DNA from that aborted baby, no different than if you were taking it directly from the fetus.”

As for me, I completely got rid of Pepsi products, even if this thing was just a little myth, I didn't want to take any chances, and, I'm pretty sure Pepsi supports Planned Parenthood, which I personally don't like anyways.

Pepsi came out with a statement that said they no longer used the cells that they apparently used, and I decided to go ahead and drink Pepsi how I would have normally drank it, which, granted, is not a lot, I'm a coca-cola kinda girl. 

So, if you were curious about this "epidemic" of sorts, there you go. And if you find yourself wanting more info, check out LifeSiteNews.com for some more information. 

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