On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:02:49 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>SMS <SMS >> wrote:
>
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>> SMS <SMS >> wrote:

>
>Happy now? This is getting boring. You will never convince me that
>you and any other person who follows religious dietary restrictions
>are of sane mind and body. And nothing short of a scientifically
>conducted poll would convince us that kosher products do/don't sell
>better among non-koshers because they're kosher.

To an extent you are right - in this newsgroup we are just speculating
as to why. We don't know for sure if it is people who keep kosher,
believe kosher is purer or tastes better, have food allergies, keep
halal, etc. But, it doesn't matter.

What matters is that the manufacturers believe that getting a kosher
designation increases their sales and that the resulting profits more
than offset the cost of getting that designation. If getting the
designation didn't, companies other than those intentionally serving the
kosher market, like Hebrew National and Empire, would not bother with
it. After all profit is profit.



>
>> Since the cost of certification is in the thousands of a
>> cent per unit sold,
>
>More exaggeration to support your claim, even if the differenmce
>between 1/1000th of a cent and $.01 is still less than $.01.
>
>-sw