Why Did Oklahoma Try to Ban Human Fetuses in Food?
The bill was introduced in 2012. It’s crazy, because there’s no human cells in food… or is the conspiracy true?
Buyer beware: a wide range of commercially sold products, including Pepsi, Sierra Mist, Mountain Dew, Aquafina water, Gatorade, and Tropicana juices and beverages, all contain ABORTED FETAL CELLS!
It’s bullshit, of course. It’s from an unverified image that gets shared on places like Instagram, with no cited sources, that has been circulating on the web since at least 2010.
But it’s had a number of effects, including leading an Oklahoma lawmaker to introduce a bill to the Senate (SB 1418) in 2012 that would outlaw “the manufacture or sale of food or products which use aborted human fetuses.”
How in the world did this idea get started? What was the reasoning behind it? Was there any grain of truth to this, or was it just insanity all the way down?
The answers, and the story of this image, probably lie with a company called Senomyx, a biotechnology company, and the kidney of a human fetus from 1973.
Here’s the theorized origin.