{"id":10398,"date":"2013-02-11T10:22:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2013-02-11T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:22:57","slug":"foodies-find-common-cause-with-anti-abortion-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=10398","title":{"rendered":"Foodies Find Common Cause with Anti-Abortion Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://blackhillsballoons.com/available-activities/ What happens when the ideological agenda of crunchy granola food activists intersects with the religious agenda of anti-abortion activists? \u00a0You get this (recycled, bizarro<\/a>) nonsense from a Seattle-based organic food advocacy website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

https://forgive123.com/our-leadership/ Biotech companies<\/a>\u00a0have been using aborted human fetal cells for testing the effectiveness of different\u00a0flavoring agent<\/a>\u00a0in their products. Last year the news came out that a\u00a0biotech company<\/a>\u00a0in CA called Senomyx has been using aborted human fetal cells in\u00a0foods and beverages.<\/a><\/p>\n

A pro-life watchdog group called Children of God for Life (CGL) has been calling the marketing scheme of the\u00a0biotech companies\u00a0<\/a>deceptive and use of aborted human fetal cells unethical and immoral. Debi Vinnedge, the director of CGL in an interview mentions that why the\u00a0biotech<\/a>\u00a0doesn\u2019t come out clean and tell the public that they are using human embryonic kidney cells (HEK-293) taken from aborted babies to produce human taste receptors?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Order Ativan Online I don’t have the time or patience to deconstruct this latest bit of scare-mongering propaganda circulating on the fringes of the biotech-averse food movement. Fortunately, Matthew Herper at Forbes<\/em> dove<\/a>\u00a0earnestly into the loopy story a year ago, when it was getting traction. As he wrote, “The fetus-derived cell line we\u2019re talking about” is a 35-year-old technology” that is\u00a0“used in the development of drugs and vaccines.” Moreover, this biotech flavoring experiment is not some dastardly scheme. Rather, Herper explained<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a huge public health upside to what Synomyx is doing. They are developing flavors that mimic sugar, salt, and also savory tastes. I\u2019m a guy who doesn\u2019t drink soda because of the health risk involved. But replacing ingredients that can lead to obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, and cancer strikes me as a useful endeavor. The creation of a medicine like Pulmozyme for cystic fibrosis, which the Children of God For Life says also used HEK cells, seems even more worthwhile. So do the vaccines from\u00a0Merck<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0GlaxoSmithKline<\/a>\u00a0that the group also opposes.<\/p>\n

https://disneycruisinggroup.com/planning/ I don\u2019t think many people in science or in the drug business would think of using HEK cells as \u201cusing aborted fetuses.\u201d To a very large extent, the HEK 293 line is being caught up in the embryonic stem cell politics of a decade later. But I can see how people who think fetal tissue should never be used in any medicine would see a problem here. I can also understand how a lot of biotechnology can seem a little scary and Frankenstein-like, because it emphasizes how malleable and manipulable our basic parts are. The fact that we can so manipulate biology challenges our view of ourselves as spiritual beings in control of our own destinies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://dinoeliadis.com/about-us/ He’s absolutely right on that score. This is a front in the GMO wars that is neglected by biotech advocates. It’s tricky terrain. How do you address widespread unease of biotechnology without resorting to ridicule or the anti-science label? That’s a challenge that’s needs to be taken on.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong>\u00a0As CBS reported<\/a> last year, “it’s important to note that no part of a human kidney cell are ever a part of Senomyx’s taste enhancers or any finished food products.”<\/p>\n

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https://rgprincipal.com/mexico/ [This is the image accompanying a related article<\/a> at a “wellness” site]<\/p>\n

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Ambien Buy Online What happens when the ideological agenda of crunchy granola food activists intersects with the religious agenda of anti-abortion activists? \u00a0You get this (recycled, bizarro) nonsense from a Seattle-based organic food advocacy website: Biotech companies\u00a0have been using aborted human fetal cells for testing the effectiveness of different\u00a0flavoring agent\u00a0in their products. Last year the news came out… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2496,2724,2962,2967],"tags":[743,1126,1581,1583],"class_list":["post-10398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-gmos","category-science-communication","category-select","tag-biotechnology","tag-gmos","tag-science","tag-science-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}