When you go to the internet to verify whether or not something you read or heard is true, please be careful of trusting the ‘fact checkers.’ Most of those sites do not care about, nor do they show evidence that they even know what a fact is. Most of them are nothing more than propaganda mills. Here is an example of how they twist things for their own purposes:
Some people have claimed that many food companies are using flavor additives that use (or include) the cells from an aborted human baby. This claim became prominent when Pepsi was accused of using aborted baby cells in its drinks. However, if you do a web search to check whether or not this is true, you will come up with something like this.
There aren’t human foetal cells in lots of popular snacks and drinks
All of these supposed ‘fact checker’ sites will be in the first couple of pages. But keep reading. The truth of an issue like this is seldom (if ever) on the first few pages. If you keep scrolling, you will start to find pages like the following:
Forget Pepsi Clear: How ‘Bout a Refreshing Pepsi FETUS?
The Truth about Fetal Tissue Research
Vaccine Ingredients: Fetal Cells
And, with respect to the claims specifically about Pepsi Co:
SEC Rules for PepsiCo’s Use of Aborted Fetal Cells
PepsiCo Says It Will Halt Use of Aborted Fetal Cells in Flavor Research
On it’s face, this is confusing enough. When you check some of the sources I just posted, you’ll start to wonder whether or not you can ever determine what is and is not true. But this is the goal!
They don’t want us to be able to determine truth from lie!
‘They’ make things like this difficult to figure out on purpose. The hope is that, if we have to spend too much time or work to hard to find the truth, we will get frustrated and give up worrying about it. When that happens, most people will just go along with whatever ‘They’ tell us, and that is the ultimate goal!
But you can determine the truth. All you need to do is learn a little basic logic and how to apply it. This is why I stress definitions and fallacies. Here, let me show you how the truth is lying right in the ‘fact checker’ sites post. Going back to this post:
There aren’t human foetal cells in lots of popular snacks and drinks
We find the following:
A video on Facebook claims that KraftHeinz, the Coca-Cola Company, Campbell’s, PepsiCo and Nestlé use flavourings made from the cells of aborted babies.
OK, so, the claim is that some food companies are using flavoring made from the cells of aborted babies. Note; the claim says ‘made from,’ not ‘made of:’ Remember this!
As you keep reading, the ‘fact checkers’ say this:
That aside, the implication that these flavourings are “made of” human cells is misleading. Though cells derived from human tissue may be involved in developing some flavourings, those cells are not in the flavouring itself.
Did you catch what the ‘fact checkers’ did? They switched the claim from ‘made from’ to ‘made of.’ This is called straw man, and it is a classic propaganda move. It is also a big fat fallacy.
Essentially, ‘straw man’ is a form of ‘bait-and-switch.’ It is when you say something that sounds like the claim you are disputing, but you change it just enough to make it easy for you to defeat. The problem is, you are not defeating the actual claim, you are defeating something that was never said by your opponent. At this level, this is intentional propaganda.
Now, if we keep reading the ‘fact check’ post, we come to this statement:
The video claims that a company called Senomyx creates flavour enhancements for companies like Pepsi, Kraft, Nestlé and Campbell’s.
It goes on to say that Senomyx grafts kidney cells from human aborted foetuses, replicates these cells, and puts them in products including Gatorade, Lay’s chips, Pepsi, Tropicana (all made by PepsiCo), Dasani water and Minute Maid (both made by the Coca-Cola Company).
Text above the video reads “HEK-239 [sic] artificial flavouring uses aborted fetus cells.”
This is actually an admission that the original claim is correct:
Food companies have and some still do use flavorings that are produced using the cells from an aborted child.
Now, go back to these stories:
SEC Rules for PepsiCo’s Use of Aborted Fetal Cells
PepsiCo Says It Will Halt Use of Aborted Fetal Cells in Flavor Research
And what do we have?
1 — Many food companies have — IN FACT — used (and still use) made artificial flavorings made using (made ‘from’) the cells of an aborted child.
2 — Yes, some people have mistakenly claimed that these cells are in (made ‘of’) the artificial flavoring, but this does not negate the actual claim.
3 — ‘Fact checkers’ intentionally confuse the issue in an attempt to make you believe the whole thing is just another ‘conspiracy theory.’
4 — The FACT remains: food companies Do use products that were DEVELOPED using cells from an aborted child.
Now, notice this:
At no time will any ‘fact checker’ broach the ethical issue of the fact that food companies are using the cells of an aborted child to make ‘food.’
And THIS is how ‘They’ stir the pot and blind the world in the process.
If you have ears to hear and eyes to see…
–B3A
[NOTE: All claims to the contrary, it has not been ‘proven’ that these flavorings do not contain cloned cells of aborted children. This is because the agencies we would have to trust to confirm this information have repeatedly proven themselves to be untrustworthy and in alliance with the big businesses and ‘fact checkers’ in question.]