>From: norma2
...@charter.net
>Newsgroups: wpg.general,calgary.general
>Subject: Re: Heinz Dumps KOSHER TAX-Too Expensive to Consumers!!
>Date: 2 Apr 2003 02:33:32 -0800
>"veranda" <nob
...@home.com> wrote in message
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>> > > veranda : the origins of Kosher are of very good value since it
>> > > teaches sanitary way of food storage , handling and preparation .
>> > > Those were valuable practices hundreds of years ago .
>> > > The whole point is that Today it only duplicates the work of
>> > > Public Food Inspectors and therefore is an unjustified extra cost
>> <norma2
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>> > What duplication? It is a symbol on the container and the cost would
>> > not change in any way. This "paranoia" is silly.
>veranda : what 'paranoia' ?? we are talking about saving money .
>In order to have the Kosher mark on a product the manufacturer
>must subscribe to the Rabbi inspections ( just like Public
>Inspectors ) and the Rabbi are charging money for their services ,
>you knew that !
>Kosher is Israel's food inspectors , dear , not in Canada though ,
>we got our own ! :)
>Well, to set the record straight. The Rabbinate council that approves
>something Kosher according to milk and meat products probably got a
>flat fee and if the company continued to raise the prices that counsel
>doesn't really care. It is not an item by item thing. With the
>Kosher diet it matters what foods are eate together (and never mil and
>meat) and one eats mostly milk meals, because the time period between
>those types of meals is longer after meat (a much heavier meal in the
>day.)
>What would it save you--less than $10 a year.
>All countries have their own Rabbinate Councils, so don't think that it
>is just Canada with their own. Maybe it is the Canadian Rabbis who
>have demanded more money?
>Or, perhaps Philip Wolf, the KOSHER FOOD INSPECTOR in Calgary wanted
>more than the $35,000 a year he got for duplicating the work of the
>Canadian authorities?? Apparently, his part-time stamps business
>couldn't make any money either.
>On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 10:25:20 -0600, Boris Dynin <bo
...@movil.com> wrote:
>Further to the article below about Heinz/Libby, the smaller article
>following sheds more light on the KOSHER NOSTRA EXTORTION TAX!!
>The "Kosher Nostra Scam" on the American Consumer
>by
>Ernesto Cienfuegos
>La Voz de Aztlan
>Los Angeles, Alta California - 4/27/2002 - (ACN) La Voz de Aztlan
>receives quite a few "news tips" per week from our many subscribers
>and readers. Some we dismiss immediately but a very few catch our
>attention.
>Last week we received an e-mail asking us if we knew the significance
>of the small encircled letter "U" or letter "K" that can be found
>printed on many food cans, food packages and on other kitchen
>products. The message gave us some clues and suggested that we
>do some research into the subject. What we found
>certainly was "news" to us and it both shocked and angered us.
>On arriving at my residence, I immediately went to the pantry to
>verify that what I had just learned was actually true. Sure enough,
>most of the packaged and canned foods from major companies, like
>Proctor & Gamble and others, did have the (U), the (K) or other
>similar markings. The Arrowhead water bottle, the instant Folgers
>Coffee, the Kelloggs box, the Jiff Peanut Butter, the Pepper
>container, the Trader Joe's tea box and even the Glads plastic
>sandwich bags carton had the (U) or (K) mark on them.
>We needed a little more verification so we called two major companies
>to ask some questions. We chose Proctor & Gamble that markets the
>Folgers Coffee and the Clorox Company that manufactures the Glads
>plastic zip lock sandwich bags. Each of the two companies, as well as
>most others, have 1-800 telephone numbers printed on their packages
>for consumers to call in case they have any questions about their
>products. When we asked the Proctor & Gamble representative what the
>(U) meant on their Folgers Coffee container, she asked us to wait
>until she consulted with her supervisor. She came back and informed us
>that the mark meant that the coffee was " certified kosher".
>We than asked her how and who certified the coffee to be "kosher" and
>whether it cost any money to do so. She refused to answer these and
>other questions. She suggested that we write to their Corporate Public
>Affairs Department. We than called the Clorox Corporation to ask what
>the (U) meant on the package of their Glads plastic sandwich bags and
>she also said that the (U) meant that the plastic bags were "kosher"
>but refused to answer questions concerning payments the Clorox
>Corporation has to make in order to be able to print the (U) on their
>products.
>What we learned next, pretty much floored me personally. I learned
>that major food companies throughout America actually pay a Jewish Tax
>amounting to hundreds of million of dollars per year in order to
>receive protection.
>This hidden tax gets passed, of course, to all non-Jewish consumers of
>the products. The scam is to coerce the companies to pay up or suffer
>the consequences of a Jewish boycott. Jewish consumers have learned
>not to buy any kitchen product that does not have the (U) the (K) and
>other similar markings.
>Another shocker was learning who is actually behind these
>sophisticated "Kosher Nostra Scams." It turns out that the
>perpetrators of these elaborate extortion schemes are actually
>Rabbinical Councils that are set up, not just in the U.S. but in other
>western countries as well. For example, the largest payola operation
>in the U.S. is run by those who license the (U) symbol. The
>(U) symbol provides protection for many products sold here in Aztlan
>and in the United States. This symbol is managed by the The Union of
>Orthodox Jewish Congregations with headquarters at 333 Seventh Avenue
>in New York City.
>The scam works like a well oiled machine and is now generating vast
>amounts of funds, some of which are being utilized by the Union of
>Orthodox Rabbis to support the Ariel Sharon Zionist government in
>Israel. The website of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations is
>full of pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian propaganda.
>The "Kosher Nostra" protection racket starts when an Orthodox Rabbi
>approaches a company to warn the owners that unless their product is
>certified as kosher, or "fit for a Jew to eat", they will face a
>boycott by every Jew in America. Most, if not all of the food
>companies, succumb to the blackmail because of fear of the Jewish
>dominated media and a boycott that may eventually culminate in
>bankruptcy. Also, the food companies know that the cost can be passed
>on to the consumer anyway. The food companies have kept secret from
>the general consumer the meaning of the (U) and the amount
>of money they have to pay the Jewish Rabbis.
>It is estimated that the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, which
>manages the (U) symbol protection racket, controls about 85% of the
>"Kosher Nostra " certification business. They now employ about 1200
>Rabbi agents that are spread through out the U.S.
>Food companies must first pay an exorbitant application fee and then a
>large annual fee for the use of the (U) copyright symbol. Secondly,
>the companies must pay separate fees each time a team of Rabbis shows
>up to "inspect" the company's operations.
>Certain food companies are required to hire Rabbis full time at very
>lucrative salaries.
>The amount of money that the non-Jewish consumer has paid the food
>companies to make up for the hidden Jewish Tax is unknown, but it is
>estimated to be in the BILLIONS since the scam first started. The
>Orthodox Jewish Councils as well as the food companies keep the amount
>of the fees very secret. The Jewish owned Wall Street Journal wrote
>about the problem many years ago, but they have stopped writing about
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