Meanwhile, we are one of the most religious countries on Earth. Don't listen to the propaganda Katie, research these things yourself. You think you understand the moral implications of abortion? You don't, I can tell by the emotion in your post. It seems to me you would be the type to force a young woman to give birth to the child of her rapist father. Your moral compass is all whack because it points erratically to some sky-daddy who doesn't exist. Search within yourself, you have a moral compass of your own.

Omw! No. Research PepsiCo shareholders: "fetus" (really baby) cells. I'm gone. Au revoir!

Well, well.

We are getting into some stupefying wrong now, aren’t we, Katelyn?





While it is generally true that you can’t disprove A god in general, whenever you make a claim about a particular god, then there is something to work with. For instance, claiming in no uncertain terms that if anyone has as much faith in their heart as a mustard seed they can move mountains, and then that said faith fails to motivate any stone into motion, then at least that god has been disproven. And that would be your god, Katelyn.



We understood that from the start, but what you continue to fail to understand is that there is a very important difference between know and believe. That difference comprises everything that there is about “know”.



If you got through our responses, I think you will find no reference at all to anyone trying to stop you from writing. In fact, I have made a couple of comments meant to encourage you. Just who are you railing against Katelyn?




Katelyn, what you have there is so far off the mark it’s not even wrong.





In the 1950’s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_allegiance



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Amend ... nstitution
Read it.



Did you read the amendment? Did you bother to look it up before you started slapping your fingers at that keyboard?

Next, just what the hell are you talking about? You think pepsi is stuffing aborted babies into it’s drinks? You’re thinking of soilent green, Katelyn. It sounds to me that your parents forbid you to drink soda, and this is the retarded lie they told you to scare you away. And you bought it. Nice. Way to think things through.



You know nothing at all about the kinds of choices that people have to make when considering abortion. Hell, you don’t even have the wherewithal to distinguish between a flagrant boogeyman tale to keep you off mountain dew and an understanding of what will sell soda.




It depends on which greatest country on earth you are talking about, Katelyn. Often times, it’s religious fanaticism and a rejection and suspicion of empirical thought that has crashed great civilizations.




Who makes fun of Indians? Not surprisingly, nobody at all puts dead children in their soda. You are a fool to believe this.







Hm. No mention of fetus on there. Just a liberal lie, i'm sure.

No. You have squandered all credibility and lenience.

Uh...she's actually right about the pepsico story.

http://www.politicolnews.com/pepsi-usin ... flavoring/

Wow - PepsiCo responded, saying, “our collaboration with Senomyx is strictly limited to creating lower-calorie, great-tasting beverages for consumers.”

No denial I could find.

In all seriousness, there's barely a smidgeon of truth here. Pepsi contracts with Senomyx, which has used fetal cells from an "electively aborted baby" to do research on artificial flavor enhancers.

So there are no actual aborted fetal cells in a can of Pepsi. The aborted fetal cells are used to to mimic human taste receptors while conducting research on artificial flavor enhancers.

"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,” says the Senomyx website.

For what it's worth, I think this is pretty messed up. Regardless of your perspective on abortion, it seems amazingly insensitive to use biological material from an aborted human fetus to do research for a brand of soda.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-li ... ell-lines/

Who thinks this shit up? You really have to wonder how they came around to testing artificial flavoring on aborted cells. Why not use donated body parts from crash victims or what-have-you? For some reason that seems slightly less offensive than using the cells of aborted fetus's.

Some of the criticism against the company is precisely that they have other options. What's not clear is how many aborted fetuses have been used. It sounds like just one. Are they still conducting tests using this fetus' cells? You would think they would find other ways.

We must exercise our god-given right to very best-tasting, non-nutritive soft drinks. The whole world is watching.

You sound like a Coke fan. I think you're all just biased against Pepsi. I don't mind drinking babies.

Coke is definitely better. Its secret ingredient, of course, is tiger blood.

This is one of those awful true statements that generate its opposing myth, creating a vivid image which has emotional carriage regardless of the facts.

PepsiCo would be better off apologizing and promising not to allow such research in future. Otherwise the urban myth will cause people to make an association that is not helpful for marketing.

The true story is far too complicated to understand, whereas the simple false version cuts through.

I see a country song in the making:

"Momma's, don't let your babies, end up in a Pepsi."

This is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. What's it from?

I completely agree, Robert. The level of corporate stupidity is amazing. Perhaps this story hasn't gotten much traction yet, but by the time it does the damage will have been done.