Secondly, the good intentions of the company makes no difference. Human experimentation is immoral, period. government agencies, food and beverage companies, and essentially every pharmaceutical and biotech compan” are using aborted babies to test things or research various topics, it is never right to do so. We are talking about using an aborted baby for research, people! No matter how many “ top universities, hospitals, U.S. “Everyone else is doing it!” Tell me when this is a decent excuse for doing something, especially something ethically and morally wrong. Let me tell you why.įirst off, they’re using the same excuse my 12 year-old tries with my husband and I to get a cell phone (which she cannot have). This response from Pepsi is less than satisfactory. Thank you again for reaching out to us and allowing us to clarify the situation.Ġ12745138A We hope this information is helpful and reassuring. This is unfortunate, and it is certainly not reflective of the work we are doing. Yet, there is some misinformation being circulated meant to distort what we’re doing and question our motives and those of other companies. government agencies, food and beverage companies, and essentially every pharmaceutical and biotech company in the world. With respect to the flavor discovery research with Senomyx, we utilize techniques that have been in standard use for several decades by top universities, hospitals, U.S. This is something we take very seriously, and we hold ourselves and all of our research partners to the same high standards as the world’s leading research centers. Please be assured that PepsiCo is committed to using only the highest ethical methods in all aspects of our research. Thank you for contacting us to share your sincere concerns. Now let’s turn to Pepsico, whose response is also exciting, albeit for different reasons: I couldn’t have been happier about this! First, no one should be using human experimentation to research anything, so the fact that Nestle is not contracted with Senomyx is great news just for that! On a personal note, that’s one fewer list I’ll need to take shopping with me during this boycott. We appreciate your interest in our products and hope you will visit our website often for the latest information on our products and promotions. Your feedback is valuable to us, as it helps us to improve our products and services. Senomyx is currently not one of our ingredient suppliers. In the past, Nestlé had a research collaboration with Senomyx to identify taste molecules. We welcome questions and comments from loyal consumers such as yourself and appreciate this opportunity to assist you. Thank you for taking the time to contact Nestlé® regarding this issue. Let’s start with some good news from Nestle: To cut all three from our purchases would be a gargantuan effort.Īs of writing this on Wednesday night, I’ve heard back from two of the three companies. Here is a link to three lists containing the brands under PepsiCo. I wasn’t lying when I said they’re a big part of my shopping list. Thank you very much, and I hope to hear soon that we can, once again, support products. I urge you to cut ties with Senomyx and return to a more ethical way of having taste tests done. As long as partners with Senomyx, our family will boycott all products and restaurants, which up until now has included quite a few of the items on our shopping list on a regular basis. This kind of research is an affront to human dignity and completely immoral to take part in.
These receptors are from HEK 293 – human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors. I was deeply disturbed to learn recently of your company’s partnering with Senomyx, a research company that uses human taste receptors to test flavors of various products makes. Not being one to want to wait for a snail mail response, I shot off an email this afternoon to each company. The idea that a company would do such a thing was so repulsive that I decided I would boycott Pepsico, Nestle, and Kraft Foods – the three companies cited as having ties with Senomyx. HEK-293 was derived from the stem cells of a healthy baby killed by abortion I’d read recently that some food companies were contracting with Senomyx, a company that uses HEK-293 to test flavors.
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