The rest of it has mainly to do with how clean the environment is where the food was prepared. Some of it looks like common-sense stuff these days, but remember that these laws came about centuries before Pasteur. BTW, if you saw how the trafe vs. the kosher raw chickens are packed, you'd REALLY prefer the kosher, if they weren't so damn expensive. Sam --- David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, George Goff wrote: > > > Not if the bottled water is kosher. What puzzles > me is that anyone would buy > > any foodstuff that was not kosher. > > I've heard that, except in the case of meat, kosher > status doesn't really > say anything about how the product is made. It just > means that, at one > point or another, a rabbi visited the factory and > approved it. This can > even take the form of driving by in a car. > > It could be I'm misinformed, though. > > > David Brodbeck, N8SRE > '82 Diesel Westfalia > '94 Honda Civic Si
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