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Vandiver606@hotmail.com (Tom) wrote in message news:<275fc558.0306291731.3352c5d5@posting.google.com>...
> threeriversguy_2000@yahoo.com (Ken) wrote in message news:<971f0a.0306272113.162c16ab@posting.google.com>...
> > mpanitz@juno.com (Mark Panitz) wrote in message news:<7a66fa60.0306271702.168230fa@posting.google.com>...
> > > Vandiver606@hotmail.com (Tom) wrote in message news:<275fc558.0306261728.6f95148@posting.google.com>...
> > > > Boris Dynin <boris@movil.com> wrote in message news:<decjfv41q2s9o89no3mlpk0lqfkr6ibf5q@4ax.com>...
> > > > 
> > > > This Kosher food and product racket has been going on too long. Start
> > > > looking at your shelves. At one time Brillo pads were "kosher".
> > > > Imagine if some White sect started the same extortion program!
> > > > 
> > > > Tom
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > hey this a hoax checkout 
> > > http://www.snopes.com/racial/business/kosher.htm
> > 
> > Good ol' Snopes, they did a great job explaining this issue.  But I'm
> > not sure I'd put this in the urban legend category.  Urban legends are
> > about ghosts, and men crouched on rear floorboards, and ....  This is
> > just plain anti-Semitic.  If you want a few laughs, or a few cries,
> > then go to the source: La Voz de Aztlan.  Their web site is very
> > informative.  Many, many of the articles are anti-Jew, anti-Israel,
> > pro-Palestinian, and have the Jews taking over the world and the U.S.
> > (Take a look at the revised U.S. flag.), although I don't know what
> > this has to do with La Raza.
> > 
> > Thanks for doing the research.
> > 
> > Ken
> 
> Attn: Weenies, please examine some of the food in your pantry. I am
> looking at a jar of Maxwell House coffee. It is designated "kosher"
> via the imprinted symbol. In other words, some devious Rabbi and
> cohorts is charging Kraft foods for their cute little kosher "K". And
> this is not an urban legend and is a point of irritation to some Jews.
> 
> Tom

While the Snopes article does a fairly good job of explaining things,
there are a few things it leaves out.  First of all, nobody charges
anybody to use the letter K.  If a company uses the letter K, the
company is saying that it certifies that the product is kosher.  It
didn't hire anybody, but merely used kosher ingredients (according to
the laws of the bible) and kept its shop kosher in a like manner.

The other thing that was left out is that while there might be a
miniscule cost per unit produced for the certification (typically on
the order of 0 cents, rounded to the nearest significant digit, and
only when certified with an circled U) it's not fair to look at the
per unit cost when the number of units sold would be lower without it.

Orthodox Jews will consume only certified kosher products.  If the
increased net profit made from producing additional units of the
product for this market segment is higher than the certification
costs, incremental cost per unit for the additional units, and related
incremental costs such as shipping, staffing, etc., then it's a sound
business decision because it's more profitable.  In this case, it gets
certified.  Otherwise it does not.

Looking at the cost per unit and the percentage of it that pays for
certification is not relevant.  What is relevant is to compare what
the cost per unit would be for the hypothetical lower quantities of
non-certified product compared to the cost per unit of the actual
product.  Since the latter is lower for the manufacturer, it's
actually theoretically cheaper for the consumer to get the kosher
product.

If you intentionally avoid kosher products as the authors of the scams
are saying, you ultimately pay more, not less. It's not a tax.  It's a
rebate.