Kosher Certification Symbols

Currently, the vast majority of food products sold in U.S. grocery stores have been reviewed by the certifying kosher. Those who pass can print a dark symbol, like a U in a circle or simply the letter "K" on the label. Those who do not recognize these symbols, or read Hebrew, do not know that the product is kosher.

Since less than 2% of the Polulation U.S. keeps kosher, the costs of this process are sent to unwitting consumers not kosher. Kosher activists love to a weary trot 1975 article in The New York Times in which an anonymous source claims that the cost per unit of accreditation is "6.5 millionths of a" hundred, but this is ridiculous. At this rate, the rabbis did collect a dollar for each unit sold 6.5 billion.

So, in fairness, consumers should continue to be non-kosher forced to subsidize a system that does not improve the quality of our food?

1. No non-kosher consumer is forced to subsidize this. You are absolutely free to buy non-certified products.
2. Your calculation is wrong by an order of magnitude. 6.5 millionths of a cent per unit is $ 10 by 6.5 billion units, and not $ 1 billion units by 6.5. Given the population size and number of units per person per day, $ 10 for 6.5 billion units is more than most rabbis do.
3. If the cost of certification has been considerable, and certified products cost less than products certified kosher. This is not the case for most packaged goods. (There is a cost difference for Turkey and meat, but most customers do not buy non-kosher kosher kosher turkey or beef, so the cost of these products is not supported by them.)
4. While the vast majority of companies in a particular type of advertising in the local newspaper, part of the amount each spends on buying these companies goes to the newspaper. Is it fair that those who do not read the newspaper must subsidize it this way?
5. I think a lot less than 1% of the population still kosher, since only about 3% of the country's Jewish and less than one third of Jews in the United States keep kosher.

Anyway, the answer to your question is that non-kosher customers should continue to be free to buy non-kosher or kosher products, as they have always been (except maybe Israel).