The Pepsi Co Boycot

[epiclesis]

When my wife was in grade school in Portland, OR, she would pick berries with a bunch of her school mates. A bus would come pick them up and take them out to the fields.

Today, I think this would be called 'child labor'.

I'm an hour south of portland, and I have a lot of friends my age who grew up picking berries on farms in their early and later teenage years.

 

[Root of Jesse]

Explain how this is "promoting abortion". It was one abortion that took place decades ago, and we're using a by-product of that life for science. The child was not, to my knowledge, killed for the purpose of testing junk food. Additional abortions are not being procured for this purpose.

It is not a sin to use products that were enhanced by testing on aborted cell tissue. I think it's distasteful, and would try to avoid them, and it could be a pious act to not eat such products. But as I said, if this was the case, that it's a sin to knowingly use products created this way, we can never use any product produced by human hands, because ultimately, we're all sinful. You couldn't even eat food you cooked and grew yourself.

 

[Michie]

I'm an hour south of portland, and I have a lot of friends my age who grew up picking berries on farms in their early and later teenage years.

We pick berries every June & July here. We have wild raspberries & blackberries growing all over our property. Got to watch the chiggers though. They love those plants!

It's worth it though. Makes great cobbler & you can freeze the berries.

 

[ChristianLayman]

I think Frito-Lay also is doing the same thing as Pepsi-Co. Needless to say, as much as I enjoy a Mountain Dew or Pepsi every now and then, the taste isn't worth the admission price to Hell.

 

[AMDG]

It is not a sin to use products that were enhanced by testing on aborted cell tissue. I think it's distasteful, and would try to avoid them

Perhaps, but that "yuck factor" alone is worth the boycott. Tell them why they are being boycotted and they just might decide that it would be more profitable *not* to use aborted fetal cell tissue and decide to treat life with a little bit of dignity instead of in just a utilitarian way.

 

[pgp_protector]

Just an FYI their are no Fetal Cells used in the making of the product.

What was done was the cells were used in Testing / Creating a Chemical Compound.

Now that this compound is created, they don't use the cells in making more of it.