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Pepsi to launch social vending machine

Pepsi is introducing a "social vending" machine that lets users buy each other drinks remotely, further proof that its decades-old rivalry with Coca-Cola Co is going ever-more high tech. Ref. Source 9

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Pepsi Shareholders Demand It Stop Using Aborted Fetal Cells

Pepsi shareholders have filed a shareholder resolution with the Securities and Exchange Commission and PepsiCo demanding that the company has been contracting with a research firm that uses fetal cells from babies victimized by abortions to test and produce artificial flavor enhancers.

As recently as May, Pepsi ignored concerns and criticism from dozens of pro-life groups and tens of thousands of pro-life people who voiced their opposition to PepsiCo contracting with biotech company Senomyx even after it was found to be testing their food additives using fetal cells from abortions.

"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."

Debi Vinnedge, of the pro-life group Children of God for Life, explained, "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. They could have easily chosen animal, insect, or other morally obtained human cells expressing the G protein for taste receptors." Ref. Source 6

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Pepsi Continues Denying Using Fetal Cells in Flavor Testing

PepsiCo has come under heavy criticism from pro-life advocates for months for contracting with biotech firm Senomyx Inc., which uses cells from a baby killed in an abortion to conduct flavor testing. Ref. Source 8

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BREAKING: Pepsi Stops Using Aborted Fetal Cell Lines to Test Flavors

After months of pro-life protests and opposition, PepsiCo has indicated it will no longer contract with biotech firm Senomyx Inc., which uses cells from a baby killed in an abortion to conduct flavor testing.

The second largest beverage company in the world contracted with the firm in a $30 million deal in August 2010 and once Debi Vinnedge of the pro-life group Children of God for Life uncovered the connection, numerous pro-life groups, including LifeNews, joined together to promote a boycott of Pepsi until it ends the Senomyx contract.

Vinnedge informed LifeNews today of Pepsi's decision and hailed it as a major breakthrough and achievement by thousands of concerned consumers who have been writing and boycotting PepsiCo beverages since last May. Ref. Source 9

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I've always preferred the taste of Pepsi over Coke, its not as bitter tasting like Coke is now. I have a neutral view about the testing on cells though.

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Really? Personally, I am not a soda drinker, and when I drink soda, I choose diet sodas. I like the taste of Coke Zero better than the sugar free sodas Pepsi offers.

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I am not into Coke but, I have tried Pepsi before, at first I thought the taste of Pepsi was unusual and today I still think it is far from before. But now I don't like Coke anymore especially this product because I think it is very unhealthy for me more than the other sodas besides Coca-Cola.

Edited: Felipe on 20th May, 2013 - 8:55pm

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A can of Pepsi has 41 grams of sugar. This amount to about seven teaspoons of sugar.