There have been many concerning things in the news lately--anyone who denies this would have to have been living under a rock. One issue that has been very much under covered is the horrific case involving the use of aborted fetal cell lines as flavor enhancements.
Yes. You read that correctly: cells from aborted babies are being used to “enhance flavor” in order to reduce caloric content. LifeSiteNews and LifeNews have both covered the story, but I’ve only included part of the article from LifeNews. (You can find the whole article here. My comments are in red.)
Debi Vinnedge, the director of the pro-life organization, tells LifeNews.com today that, in 2010, her group wrote to Senomyx CEO Kent Snyder and pointed out that moral options for testing their food additives could and should be used. But when Senomyx ignored her letter, the group wrote to the companies Senomyx listed on their website as “collaborators” warning them of public backlash and threatened boycott. They included food giants PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, Campbell Soup, Solae and Nestlé. Campbell Soup has since severed relations with Senomyx.“The company’s 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.”“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.”Vinnedge says she has contacted the food companies working with Senomyx, but said it took three letters before one company, Nestlé, finally admitted its relationship with Senomyx and company officials claimed the line of cells from abortions was “well established in scientific research”.Seriously? Oh yeah, the scientific research which says that life clearly begins a conception. Right.PepsiCo wrote: “We hope you are reassured to learn that our collaboration with Senomyx is strictly limited to creating lower-calorie, great-tasting beverages for consumers. This will help us achieve our commitment to reduce added sugar per serving by 25% in key brands in key markets over the next decade and ultimately help people live healthier lives.” So you are committed to reducing sugar but not to reducing the attacks on human life in its most vulnerable form. Since when has “low calorie” trumped human dignity? So, um, I hate to ask, but what’s next?
Aside from the macabre and cannibalistic nature of this sad affair, the whole situation reminds me of something from the Old Testament. Let me explain.
You recall how in Exodus, Moses and the Jewish people entered into a covenant with God at Mount Sinai? After giving the people the 10 Commandments, the covenant was ratified through blood and a special banquet.
“And he [Moses] sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins and half of the blood he threw against the altar. Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and well will be obedient.” And Moses took the blood and threw it upon the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.” .... “And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.” Ex 24:5-8,11
(Jewish elders were able to eat the sacrificed animal after seeing a vision of God...this was part of their communion with God)
No sooner had the people promised to do everything that the Lord had commanded, that they turned around and violated the first and most important commandment! Moses came down from Mt Sinai and found them worshiping a golden calf. Interestingly enough, Moses is so infuriated that he makes them join in communion with their false god...
And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot , and he threw the tables out of his hand and broke them at the foot of the mountain. And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it upon the water, and made the people of Israel drink it.” Ex 32:19,20Does this remind you of something? Could it be that the sick form of cannibalism we are experiencing is just a communion with our culture’s false gods of sensuality, science and self?
