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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (37569)	6/7/2004 11:45:53 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Jewish Tax: Kosher Steel? (These talmudic rabbis are experts milking the public with their voodo religion!) At least the following thoughts threaten to spring to mind upon reading the Newsweek article below: 1. tainless steel does not corrode The steel products that might come into contact with food would be made of stainless steel, which is highly resistant to corrosion, and certainly is in no danger of suffering corrosion in the short interval between manufacture and purchase when it sits safely packaged on a retail shelf — thus, it is unclear why such stainless steel products need any protective coating at all, and it is capable of being doubted that they do have any. 2. Wash before using If steel products that might come into contact with food, such as knives and forks and sauce pans and frying pans, have on them a protective coating which might contain "a tiny bit of animal fat," then if the steel products were washed before first use, this coating would be removed. A consumer of average prudence would so wash any such steel product before applying it to food, and the kosher-keeping Jew could be particularly sure to do so. My recollection of unpacking products intended to be applied to food is that instructions already warn that such products should be washed before first use. Thus, there does not appear to exist any problem requiring solution by extracting large sums of money from steel manufacturers. 3. his is big business The dollar amount mentioned in the Newsweek article suggests that the sums of money involved in kosher accreditation are not nominal. In one year, a single rabbi plus colleagues anticipates extracting $700,000 US from American steelmakers for bestowing on them the right of labelling their steel as kosher. As this rabbi might be expected to under-estimate revenues in order to keep from looking greedy, and in order to not invite a flood of competitors, the true revenues might be expected to be even higher. As the fees can be increased from year to year, and as enterprises other than steel manufacturing can be added to the list of contributors, then one imagines that kosher accreditation is possibly a highly remunerative field. 4. Molecular religion Human beings shed themselves into the air around them. They exhale organic molecules into the air. When they talk, a cloud of saliva droplets, some containing mouth cells, is sprayed in front of them. Their skin cells rub off and go floating in the wind. Thus, in a short trip on a crowded bus, it is conceivable that a passenger inhales billions of organic molecules, even hundreds of entire cells, which constitute body parts of the other passengers. Does any religion consider this a consumption of meat? Of course not! Does any religion consider this to be cannibalism? Not likely! Or, a spectator sitting in the back row of an aquatic show ends up with a microscopic droplet of water in his mouth from the spray of the killer whale landing with a splash. The water in the pool is saturated with killer whale excretions and cells. Does any religion hold that spectator guilty of eating killer whale? Does the Orthodox Jew break kosher whenever he watches an aquatic show? When we pet a cat, we end up with cat molecules in our mouth — so does an Orthodox Jew break kosher by petting a cat? When we wear a mink coat, we end up with mink molecules in our mouth — so does an Orthodox Jew break kosher by wearing mink? Examples in this vein can be multiplied endlessly. Reflection on the nature of the invisible-to-the-naked-eye world which modern science has demonstrated the existence of forces us to the conclusion that religious observance was never intended to function at a microscopic level, that religious injunctions do not apply to stray molecules, that dietary laws are silent on the subject of the organic soup in which every human being is immersed. No religion concerns itself with prohibiting absorption into our bodies of substances in amounts so minuscule as to be detectable only in a sophisticated laboratory. A hypothesis that cries out to be considered, then, is that when a religion does begin to be concerned with stray molecules, begins one might say to show a preoccupation with stray molecules, then that religion is in the process of being hijacked by rabinnical extortionists. They simply use the foolishness of the Talmud to extort millions annually from the American people.