View Single Post
  #21 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking,misc.consumers
Rod Speed Rod Speed is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 377
Default Paying to eat "Kosher" even if you are not Jewish.

Sqwertz > wrote
> Sheldon <Sheldon >> wrote


>> There's no extra costs for keeping kosher, most foods on stupidmarket
>> shelves are kosher by default anyway and it costs nothing extra to
>> refrain from consuming non kosher foods and mixing meat with dairy.


> Everyone is paying the Kosher Tax - even those
> of us who don't care about keeping kosher.


Nope, see the snopes refutation of that lie.

> And as you note, most food is already kosher anyway,


So the bulk of it doesnt even need to be certified.

> but the manufacturers still have to pay for their
> certifications for these "default kosher" products.


Wrong, as always.

>> Kosher costs nothing extra.


> Yes, it does.


No it doesnt.

> Like advertising, the costs of certifying your products
> kosher is passed along to the consumers.


Pity you dont have to get it certified kosher.