Edit - Okay, I still do not know exactly how they are using them. I understand they are using them for taste testing to measure responses to food products. But how? I probably need a visual or an animation to see exactly what they are doing. It's just not clicking in my head.
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Well from what I can tell, they're basically using aborted fetus kidney cells to test how different additives, conservatives etc. affect the taste of food, so that they can create cheap food (thx to conservatives) with fewer unhealthy additives that tastes great.
As I am pro-choice, I see this as recycling. That dead fetus was (for lack of a better term) going to go to waste anyway, at least this way it's helping the rest of us out.
Now if the fetuses are taken without there having been a waiver form of some sort signed by the parents, I would indeed see that as wrong, but as it stands, I don't think that's the case.
Additionally, that article says something along the lines of:
I really really really REALLY doubt that if she were right and those were viable options, that Senomyx would prefer using human fetus cells. Who wants this kind of headache?
I got that but I don't understand the "how" in the use. They listed an explanation that included what I thought was cell-site receptors and modulation. But I don't understand what stem-cells have to do with that, at all. It's used for "testing" but the process is obscured.
The group that is making these claims are called the Children of God for Life... I'm not sure how credible they are for things of this nature...
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How are they using the fetus? It sounds like they are using the cells to try and figure out how things taste... Why don't they just... You know... Taste it?
In my school we're growing meat in labs with stem cells. Granted, as of now it's only possible at a microscopic level but it's still rather interesting.
The word stem is nowhere on the site.
The word baby is nowhere on the site.
The word fetus is nowhere on the site.
The word abort is nowhere on the site.
These are the kinds of things you learn when you think for yourself (GASP!) and don't blindly accept the rantings of crazy people (how dare I?).
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By browser has a find feature? I used google's "site:" code, I usually use it to make porn searches more efficient but this seemed like a more noble cause.
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