Friday, March 4, 2016
Aborted Babies Taste Test Your Products
All articles are non recent
Sources: http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2013/07/comprehensive-list-of-companies-that-uses-aborted-fetal-cells-as-flavor-2452716.html
https://familycouncil.org/?p=4666
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC123709/
Many trusted companies such as Kraft, Nestle, and even Pepsi Co. have partnered with biotech company Senomyx. Senomyx creates new additives, or flavor enhancers, for their partners. Since 1999, Senomyx has been testing additives and determining if it makes a product smell or taste better. Rather than hiring professional taste testers and having them determine the additives, Senomyx has capitalized on a discovery that allows them to receive direct feedback on what's good and what isn't.
Senomyx has reversed engineered human receptors that respond to taste and aroma and they can reproduce these receptors using Human Embryonic Kidney cells (HEK). Many individuals have spoken against the use of aborted fetuses in such a way and have threatened to boycott those companies partnered with Senomyx. Other individuals have feared that HEKs may even appear in the final product of their soda or candy, but they are not. To be clear, Senomyx is using these cells to only test additives and see which ones the receptors react to the most; therefore, choosing the "best" sweetener or flavor. What good does it do for one's health if we continue to use sweeter sweeteners, doesn't that just add to sugar addictions? Senomyx has also even created taste inhibitors! Certain soy products may be bitter, and Senomyx has added inhibitors that prevent an individual from noticing any bitter taste.
Much like cosmetics have labels claiming their product was not tested on animals, should we ask for labels that state whether or not the product was tested using HEKs, or what flavor enhancers/inhibitors were added using this method? Perhaps one day, enough concerned Americans can bring this topic into debate in legislature and decide the future of this testing method.
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Wow. I had no idea that companies were using HEKs to test their products . . . that's genius! They're already out of the womb and were probably heading somewhere not useful, it's not like they purposely aborted babies, so why not? Science has to take advantage of what it's got in order to progress.
ReplyDeleteYou bring up a really good point that because the company Senomyx can alter the product without adding any extra sugars, it will be better for human health. However, I'd still like some further research on this practice to ensure no negative health consequences.
If we had to label everything that was modified in food products, there wouldn't be enough space to write on. Still, it is hypocritical of me to want GMO labeled products and not HEKs. It just seems unnecessary since they aren't in the product itself, they were just used in testing.
Those are my $.02.
Wow yeah
ReplyDeleteOk
I agree w/Patty
It's not like those fetuses are being used for anything
However
It's not cool that you can just add a chemical to limit a taste
#DownWithTasteInhibitors2K16