Oklahoma lawmaker wants to stop Pepsi from using aborted fetus cells in soda flavoring research
By Ethan A. Huff
Natural News
January 24, 2012
(NaturalNews) In order to simulate various flavors in processed foods, some food manufacturers are actually using aborted fetal cells to test and produce these artificial chemical enhancers that millions of Americans consume every single day. Concerned about the ethical and moral implications of such a process, Oklahoma Senator Ralph Shortey has introduced new legislation to prohibit this practice from occurring in his home state.
Senomyx, a California-based biotechnology company that specializes in developing food flavorings, is one such company that uses aborted embryonic cells to create “isolated human taste receptors,” which are used in the production of food chemicals. And this company has partnered with several major food manufacturers, including Kraft, PepsiCo, and Nestle (http://www.naturalnews.com/032043_human_fetal_cells_artificial_flavors.html).
“There is a potential that there are companies that are using aborted human babies in their research and development of basically enhancing flavor for artificial flavors,” Sen. Shortey is quoted as saying by KRMG News Talk Radio. “What I am saying is that if it does happen then we are not going to allow it to manufacture here.”
According to Children of God for Life (CGL), a pro-life watchdog group, Senomyx uses HEK 293 to produce its artificial flavor enhancing chemicals. HEK 293 is code for human embryonic kidney cells that are manipulated to produce taste receptors that express a specific protein known as the G protein. But CGL says the company could also use animal, insect, or other more acceptably-derived cells instead, and still procure the same results.
While aborted fetal cells are not necessarily in the final products made by PepsiCo, Kraft, or Nestle, such cells appear to needlessly play a part in the production of artificial flavor chemicals used by these companies. And since there are viable alternatives to this questionable practice, Sen. Shortey, CGL, and many others are calling for its end.
As we reported previously, the Campbell Soup company used to be a Senomyx partner until CGL contacted them about the fetal cell issue. Shortly thereafter, reports indicate that Campbell’s officially cut ties with Senomyx, which in 2003 filed a patent for “recombinant (genetically modified) methods for expressing a functional sweet taste receptor.”
Sources for this article include:
http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/food-containing-fetuses-targeted-under-new-oklaho/nG7P7/
http://www.naturalnews.com/032043_human_fetal_cells_artificial_flavors.html
Death and Diplomacy: Homs on the brink [video]
Russia Today
February 8, 2012
The Syrian opposition say the city of Homs has come under the heaviest attack yet in days of intensive fighting between armed goups and government forces. Activists say hundreds of people have been killed by army shelling since Friday, the government denies the assault. Local journalist, Diana Nemeh, says reports from Homs are difficult to verify.
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Clearing the Smoke: The Science of Cannabis [video]
YouTube – NIMBINTELEVISION
August 11, 2011
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Chossudovsky: “War on Iran would mean World War III” [video]
Global Research TV
January 30, 2012
The military build-up and economic sanctions against Iran are designed to unleash a global war from the Mediterranean to China with unpredictable consequences, warns Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
Tensions between Iran and the West are close to crisis level. With massive help from the western media, Iran has firmly become embedded as the root of all evil in the minds of many westerners.
The author of the book Towards a World War Three Scenario, The Dangers of Nuclear War told RT that “The issue of Iran’s nuclear weapons is a red herring, but this red herring could lead us to a WWIII scenario.” He also recalled all the American military bases with nuclear weapons close to Iran’s borders.
Michel Chossudovsky recalled that a couple of weeks ago, America’s Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta quite categorically stated to CBS that Iran neither possesses, nor is developing nuclear weapons. Panetta did not rule out that there are still diplomatic means to cut Iran’s Gordian knot.
But considering the US military preparations around Iran, this statement rather looks like a deceptive maneuver.
Last week, EU nations adopted an unprecedented set of sanctions against the Islamic Republic..
These include a complete embargo on oil supplies from Iran, and are expected to come into force in July.
“What we are witnessing here is a build-up towards a military confrontation. These sanctions constitute the staging of a military agenda,” feels Michel Chossudovsky. “In turn, we have massive deployment of US military hardware, troops going to Israel to be stationed in Israel, more troops go to Kuwait, [American] naval forces are entering the Persian Gulf.”
Michel Chossudovsky believes that “What the United States wants now, including its allies, is some kind of a green light which will give a human face to a war.”
On Monday, the UN nuclear inspectors started a three-day mission to examine Iran’s atomic activities.
Tehran says the talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the first in more than three years, will prove its nuclear program is purely peaceful.
With the visit of the IAEA inspectors, Iran is playing a diplomatic card, believes Chossudovsky. The IAEA is not politically controlled, so once it confirms Iran’s nuclear program has peaceful purposes, this should undermine the aggressive intentions of the West.
The US needs a contrary statement from the IAEA to use this for transition to a new — military — stage in the Iran drama.
“This war has already started. There are drone attacks, there are special [American] forces inside Iran and there is financial warfare,” considers Michel Chossudovsky.
Plans to invade Iran emerged immediately after the invasion of Iraq, Chossudovsky informs, with military preparations begun around 2005, so by now everything should be ready and in place for a full-scale military conflict.
“The WWIII scenario is unthinkable. This war would extend from the Meditarranean to the Chinese border. It could possibly include Russia and China,” Michel Chossudovsky concluded. “We could find ourselves at a very critical crossroads.”
Originally aired on RT, January 29, 2012
http://rt.com/news/us-iran-ww3-chossudovsky-025/
‘Regime change path to bloodshed’ – Churkin to RT [video]
Russia Today
February 7, 2012
In the light of recent UN Security Council fallouts, RT spoke to Russia’s ambassador to the body, Vitaly Churkin.
He says that piling pressure only on the Assad regime gives unilateral advantages to the rebels, who are also to blame for inciting violence in Syria.
And while Russia made mediation efforts in Syria, some nations sought to further isolate the Arab country, by withdrawing their ambassadors en masse.
President of the Arab Lawyers’ Association, Sabah al-Mukhtar, they are just careless about the bloodshed.
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The Past, Present and Future of Internet Censorship [video]
Corbett Report
January 28, 2012
TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=3827
In recent weeks the general public has mobilized to face US legislative threats to Internet freedoms. Far from a conclusive victory, however, the death of SOPA and PIPA only highlight the latest in a series of measures that are seeking to create a legal framework for government-administered Internet censorship.
Find out more about this contentious topic in this week’s GRTV Backgrounder on Global Research TV.
Jeff And Jan Smith – Morgellons…See What The CDC Calls Hallucinations ! [video]
Rense
February 6, 2012
People who suffer from Morgellons disease are NOT delusional no matter what the CDC or the mainstream press would have you believe.
Comments from previous video version:
food grade peroxide or food grade Diatomaceous Earth possibly. im thinking maybe this is some people’s reactions to gmo foods. one video i watched showed a parasite. like a larva, maybe a silkworm type.
Gooodwitch 2 hours ago
She said it breaks into pieces if you introduce hydrogen peroxide. So why cant those with this take food grade and dissolve all the fibers?
MayanResearcher 4 hours ago
Thank you for uploading this and I have a request if you have any videos of Joel Skousen on the Jeff Rense show could you please post them if you can? Thank you and if you can’t I understand! Take care!
o13starsnstripes 4 hours ago
It’s a Brave New World:
The Hairs thing is simple, IF these things are nano-machines, then the have a purpose. They need to communicate to someone (or something) and so would need “Antennae.”
Just a thought.
Den
DenChaldes 7 hours ago
IF…and I mean IF…this is an actual device…can’t help but wonder if this is the ZOMBIE Switch?
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