League Joins Pepsi Boycott
Posted by Corrina Gura (June 1, 2011 at 10:18 am)
The Pro-Life Action League invites you to join us in boycotting PepsiCo.
Good tasting beverages should not in any way be developed from the cells of aborted babies. Until Pepsi acknowledges this and drops all ties with Senomyx, pro-lifers must stop buying all Pepsi products.
The Abortion Connection
Children of God for Life (COGFL), an organization devoted to identifying ethical and unethical vaccines, medicines, and other products, discovered in late March a disgusting use of aborted fetal tissue:
Senomyx website states that “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. …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.”
Senomyx notes their collaborators provide them research and development funding plus royalties on sales of products using their flavor ingredients.
“What they do not tell the public is that they are using HEK 293 – human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors“, stated Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director for Children of God for Life, a pro-life watch dog group that has been monitoring the use of aborted fetal material in medical products and cosmetics for years. (emphasis added)
Cells from aborted babies are being used to make our laboratory-created foods more palatable.
Shame on us if we accept such disrespect for human life–the reduction of an unborn baby to cells that tell us whether we’ll like how food tastes.
Companies Respond to the Connection
When notified of this use of aborted baby’s cells, companies responded in a variety of ways.
Campbell’s Soup immediately severed all connections with Senomyx.
Solae lied about working with Senomyx. So did Nestle, which got snotty–then recanted when provided with proof.
Kraft/Cadbury sent the clueless response of: “Our collaboration with Senomyx is to discover novel ingredients that positively impact food flavors, similar to what already is being widely used in foods and beverages today.” To them this obviously justifies the exploitation of a murdered baby.
Pepsi’s Response
The first response COGFL received from Pepsi was that their “collaboration with Senomyx is strictly limited to creating lower-calorie, great tasting beverages for consumers.” When consumers continued to be unhappy despite this “assurance,” Pepsi changed its response.
Pepsi’s second response relied heavily on two logical fallacies–can you spot them?
Unfortunately, there is some misinformation being circulated related to research techniques that have been used for decades by universities, hospitals, government agencies, and private companies around the world. These claims are meant to suggest that human fetal tissue is somehow used in our research. That is both inaccurate and something we would never do or even consider. It also is inaccurate to suggest that tissue or cells somehow are being used as product ingredients.
Give yourself an “A” if you identified 1) the Ad Populum Fallacy, also known as “everybody’s doing it” (also acceptable: appeal to antiquity/tradition) and 2) the Straw Man Fallacy (constructing an inaccurate version of the real argument in order to easily refute it).
Seeing no signs of remorse, COGFL has launched a massive pro-life boycott against PepsiCo, which dozens of pro-life groups have signed on to.
Products to Boycott
Click here for a full list of Pepsi products.
Basically look for these brands:
Pepsi
Sierra Mist
Ocean Spray
Mountain Dew
Amp Energy
Mug Rootbeer
Tazo Tea
Seattle’s Best Coffee
Sobe
Aquafina
Frapuccino
Lipton
DoubleShot
Propel
Take More Action
And also importantly, let Pepsi know you’re boycotting them. Write to:
Jamie Caulfield, Sr. VP
PepsiCo, Inc.
700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
(914) 253-2000
http://prolifeaction.org/hotline/2011/nopepsi/
Pepsi products:
North American Brands
Pepsi
Pepsi Max
Pepsi Natural
Pepsi One
Pepsi Throwback
Pepsi Wild Cherry
Caffeine Free Pepsi
Diet Pepsi
Diet Pepsi Lime
Diet Pepsi Vanilla
Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry
Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi
Sierra Mist Natural
Diet Sierra Mist
Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash
Diet Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash
Diet Sierra Mist Ruby Splash
Ocean Spray Apple Juice
Ocean Spray Blueberry Juice Cocktail
Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail
Ocean Spray Cran-Grape Drink
Ocean Spray Cran-Pomegranate Juice Drink
Ocean Spray Orange Juice
Ocean Spray Pineapple Peach Mango Juice Blend
Ocean Spray Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice Drink
Ocean Spray Strawberry Kiwi Juice Drink
Mountain Dew
Mountain Dew Code Red
Mountain Dew Live Wire
Mountain Dew Throwback
Mountain Dew Voltage
Mountain Dew White Out
Caffeine Free Mountain Dew
Caffeine Free Diet Mountain Dew
Diet Mountain Dew
Diet Mountain Dew Code Red
AMP Energy
AMP Energy - Elevate
AMP Energy - Lightning
AMP Energy - Lightning
Sugar Free
AMP Energy - Overdrive
AMP Energy -
Sugar Free
AMP Energy - Traction
AMP Energy Juice - Orange
Mug Root Beer
Diet Mug Root Beer
Mug Cream Soda
Diet Mug Cream Soda
No Fear
Sugar Free No Fear
Seattle's Best Coffee - Iced Latte
Seattle's Best Coffee - Iced Mocha
Seattle's Best Coffee - Iced Vanilla Latte
Tazo Giant Peach
Tazo Organic Iced Black
Tazo Organic Iced Green
SoBe Energize Citrus Energy
SoBe Energize Green Tea
SoBe Energize Mango Melon
SoBe Energize Power Fruit Punch
SoBe Lean Fuji Apple Cranberry
SoBe Lean Honey Green Tea
SoBe Lean Raspberry Lemonade
SoBe Lifewater Acai Fruit Punch
SoBe Lifewater Agave Lemonade
SoBe Lifewater B-Energy Black Cherry Dragonfruit
SoBe Lifewater B-Energy Strawberry Apricot
SoBe Lifewater Black and Blue Berry
SoBe Lifewater Blackberry Grape
SoBe Lifewater Cherimoya Punch
SoBe Lifewater Fuji Apple Pear
SoBe Lifewater Macintosh Apple Cherry
SoBe Lifewater Mango Melon
SoBe Lifewater Orange Tangerine
SoBe Lifewater Pomegranate Cherry
SoBe Lifewater Strawberry Dragonfruit
SoBe Lifewater Strawberry Kiwi
SoBe Lifewater Strawberry Kiwi Lemonade
SoBe Lifewater Yumberry Pomegranate
SoBe Smooth Orange Cream
SoBe Smooth Pina Colada
SoBe Smooth Strawberry Banana
SoBe Smooth Strawberry Daiquiri
SoBe Vita-Boom Cranberry Grapefruit
SoBe Vita-Boom Orange Carrot
Aquafina
Aquafina FlavorSplash - Grape
Aquafina FlavorSplash - Lemon
Aquafina FlavorSplash - Peach Mango
Aquafina FlavorSplash - Raspberry
Aquafina FlavorSplash - Strawberry Kiwi
Aquafina FlavorSplash - Wild Berry
Frappuccino - Caramel
Frappuccino - Coffee
Frappuccino - Dark Chocolate Mocha
Frappuccino - Light Vanilla
Frappuccino - Light Mocha
Frappuccino - Mocha
Frappuccino - Vanilla
DoubleShot Coffee Drink
DoubleShot Light Coffee Drink
DoubleShot Energy - Coffee
DoubleShot Energy - Mocha
DoubleShot Energy - Vanilla
DoubleShot Energy - Vanilla Light
Lipton Brisk Fruit Punch
Lipton Brisk Green Tea with Mango Dragonfruit
Lipton Brisk Green Tea with Peach
Lipton Brisk Iced tea with Lemonade
Lipton Brisk Lemonade
Lipton Brisk Lemon Iced Tea
Lipton Brisk No Calorie Lemon Iced Tea
Lipton Brisk Orangeade
Lipton Brisk Pink Lemonade
Lipton Brisk Raspberry Iced Tea
Lipton Brisk Strawberry Melon
Lipton Brisk Sugar Free Lemonade
Lipton Brisk Sugar Free Orangeade
Lipton Brisk Sweet Iced Tea
Lipton Diet Green Tea with Citrus
Lipton Diet Green Tea with Mixed Berry
Lipton Diet Iced Tea with Lemon
Lipton Diet White Tea with Raspberry
Lipton Green Tea with Citrus
Lipton Iced Tea Lemonade
Lipton Iced Tea with Lemon
Lipton PureLeaf - Diet Lemon
Lipton PureLeaf - Extra Sweet
Lipton PureLeaf - Green Tea with Honey
Lipton PureLeaf - Lemon
Lipton PureLeaf - Peach
Lipton PureLeaf - Raspberry
Lipton PureLeaf - Sweetened
Lipton PureLeaf - Unsweetened
Lipton Sweet Iced Tea
Lipton White Tea with Raspberry
Propel - Berry
Propel - Grape
Propel - Kiwi Strawberry
Propel - Lemon
Propel - Raspberry Lemonade
Propel - Cherry Lime with Calcium
Propel - Citrus Punch with Calcium
Propel - Lemonade with Calcium
Propel Zero - Berry
Propel Zero - Black Cherry
Propel Zero - Blueberry Pomegranate
Propel Zero - Grape
Propel Zero - Kiwi Strawberry
Propel Zero - Lemon
Propel Zero - Peach
International Brands
Fiesta Mirinda Mango
Fiesta Mirinda Pina
Manzanita Sol
Kas Mas
http://pepsico.com/Brands/Pepsi_Cola-Brands.html