@GBCDude @TerminalState @TheMadPirate @wishgranter14 My Judaism is more cultural, and I am ethnically Jewish. I was raised religious- but I am wholly secular. I am a strong agnostic-atheist, with heavy flavors of Absurdism in terms of philosophy.
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@TheMadPirate @GBCDude @TerminalState @wishgranter14 Not really. I live in Tel Aviv- Kosher food is easy to get here. I just like pork products so I shop the Russian and Arab Christian shops for my groceries where pork based things are concerned. I go to the kosher butcher for beef or chicken. It's almost impossible to find non-kosher beef or chicken here.
And it's not like I have to hike or go somewhere weird to get the pork products. It's across the street from me to go to one Russian place I do most of my shopping for sausages, bacon, and various cheeses.
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Eh. The money comes in more with the paperwork required for your butcher/buchery. But when they're doing enough to feed the Brooklyn orthodox crew, the price goes way down.
But send that same beef or chicken to the ass-end of Iowa and all of a sudden it's stupid expensive.
The process itself is pretty interesting, as a lot of it has to do with treating the animal with respect as much as it is bronze-age health inspection.
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You'll need to get a 'hechure' (heck-sure) for instance. It's a certificate that says the Rabbi has come by and guarantees it is kosher. That service costs money, and that money is of course passed onto the consumer.
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That being said, in some places in Europe and the US Kosher is more expensive, but that's due to your basic economics with supply and demand.
In places with a lot of Jewish people- NYC, Miami, some areas of California- those areas can have Kosher food that isn't all that more expensive than non-kosher food. Again, it's your basic supply-demand economics in that regard.