Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

[Neil Johnson]

I was listening to a radio program on NPR (The cypherpunks favorite statist
medium :) ).

They were discussing the problems with the certification of kosher food.

Evidently there are many different organizations with differing ideas on
what it takes to be kosher.

They interviewed one restaurant owner who follows kosher practices and has
been certified by a rabbi.

However, the local kosher certification organization says he isn't because
he doesn't have a full time rabbi on staff in the kitchen (who just happens
to HAVE to be from their organization). So most orthodox Jews won't eat
there.

Kind of sounds like a "protection racket" to me.

Neil M. Johnson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Choate" <ravage at ssz.com>
To: <cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 8:57 PM
Subject: CDR: RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven
(Intellagora)


>
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote:
>
> > The diamond-trading jews of New York use reputation (ostracism from
> > the community, centrally enforced by a council that rules their
voluntary
> > association) to handle 'arbitration'.
>
> They're also responsible to the same law and license that every other
> diamond trader in NY is responsible to. This isn't a 'market' in the
> economic sense, it's an extension of their religion (clearly a
> non-economic aspect to their culture).
>
> > Jews also use a non-governmental USDA to keep their food clean.
>
> Which again isn't really a 'market' per se since there isn't a statistical
> issue here. ALL Jews, as opposed to some percentage of same, technicaly
> require their food to be kosher.
>
> They are particular mechanisms for the protection of their culture not an
> 'economic market' (though both have economic aspects). They don't do it to
> protect their income. They do it because they believe it's the 'right'
> thing to do, they are answering to a higher calling.
>
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