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Dear
Mike House,
First, let me
give you the
background.
The Pepsi Company has a documented, cozy
relationship
with Senomyx
that uses
aborted fetal
cells in
flavor-enhancing
research.
The cells
aren't in the
product
itself, but
used to test
human reaction
to various
flavors.
Even though
this has
caused a huge
controversy,
PepsiCo
presses
onward,
thumbing their
nose at
innocent life
for the sake
of profits.
A
shareholder’s
resolution was
filed in
October 2011
urging the
company to
“adopt a
corporate
policy that
recognizes
human rights
and employs
ethical
standards
which do not
involve using
the remains of
aborted human
beings in both
private and
collaborative
research and
development
agreements.”
PepsiCo is
fighting back
by trying to
keep these
shareholders
from speaking
the truth, and
they're
getting the
Obama
administration
to help.
PepsiCo
pleaded in a
36-page filing
with the
Securities and
Exchange
Commission
(SEC) to
reject the
shareholder's
resolution,
keeping the
majority of
shareholders
in the dark.
In other words,
PepsiCo wants
to continue
disregarding
life with the
federal
government’s
approval. One
lead attorney
for PepsiCo
said that the
pro-life
resolution
should be
rejected
because
“certain
tasks are so
fundamental to
run a company
on a
day-to-day
basis that
they could not
be subject to
stockholder
oversight.”
PepsiCo even
went so far as
to boldly
declare that
shareholders
couldn’t
make an
informed
decision on
the matter for
the reason
that it was
too complex. What that
essentially
translates
into is that
PepsiCo
doesn’t
think its own
shareholders
are competent
enough to
understand
that the
company is
making profits
off the
remains of
aborted
children.
The latest news
is that
PepsiCo has
succeeded.
The SEC ruled
in late
February that
PepsiCo’s
use of aborted
fetal cells in
their research
and
development
agreement with
Senomyx--their
contracted
research
company--is
nothing more
than
“ordinary
business
operations.”
Debi Vinnedge--a
good friend
and the
executive
director of
Children of
God for
Life--captured
the gravity of
the situation
in a nutshell.
Her
organization
brought
PepsiCo’s
disgusting
activities to
our attention
last year.
“We’re not
talking about
what kind of
pencils
PepsiCo wants
to use--we are
talking about
exploiting the
remains of an
aborted child
for profit,”
she said.
“Using human
embryonic
kidney
(HEK-293) to
produce flavor
enhancers for
their
beverages is a
far cry from
routine
operations!”
She’s right.
Part of me wants
to be shocked
at the SEC’s
decision to
label
PepsiCo’s
disgusting
activity as
“ordinary.”
At the same
time, given
the
pro-abortion
policies
hemorrhaging
out of Barack
Obama's
administration,
I’m really
not all that
surprised by
their
decision.
PepsiCo will
continue their
efforts to
keep the
controversy
quiet, but the
pro-life
community’s
boycott of
Pepsi products
and exposing
the outrage
isn’t going
to lose its
fizz anytime
soon.
Here's what I
need you to
do.
BOYCOTT Pepsi
products. Click
here for the link
that will tell
you what they
are.
Contact
PepsiCo
directly by
click here.
Tell them why
you're
boycotting
their
products.
Let
others know by
leaving a
comment on the
company’s
Facebook page
by clicking
here. Post
comments on
your own
Facebook and
Twitter pages.
Forward this
email to
others.
The
only way to
stop this
atrocity is if
you and I make
enough noise.
Together, we
must put
PepsiCo under
the spotlight
and expose
their
willingness to
make money off
the bodies of
aborted
babies.
For the lives of
the tiny and
vulnerable,
Bradley Mattes
Executive
Director
Life Issues
Institute
PS
Knowledge is
life-saving
power. Please
share this
email with as
many people as
you can.
America must
be shaken out
of its
apathetic
slumber—the
cost is too
great—millions
of babies are
being brutally
killed.
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