Here's what you do, pop over to the Jewish site in the original post
you conveniently snipped apart. That's where I got the info from and
you can tell them they don't have a clue.
I incase you can't find it, here it is again
http://www.kosherquest.org/symbols.php tells how it works out.
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On Mon, 04 May 2009 20:28:45 GMT, "brooklyn1"
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>> Sea salt, obtained by evaporating seawater,
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>You haven't a clue... ALL salt is the result of evaporated sea water...
>mined salt was once a sea, then dried up, the water evaporated. But "sea
>salt" is NOT a result of evaporating sea water... sea salt is a naturally
>occuring phenomena... it's salt that floats to the surface by becoming
>attached to foreign schmutz that floats... it forms on schmutz kinda like
>how sugar forms on a string to become rock candy.
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>I snipped all the rest of your post because none of that was factual either.
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>BTW, the product marketed as "Sea Salt" is NOT kosher... it's skimmed along
>with plant and *animal* parts. Sea salt is not pure salt in that it also
>contains many minerals/elements that in of themselves are kosher but are not
>necessarilly safe for folks to ingest on a regular basis.. one should always
>query their medical professional about the use of sea salt... many
>prescription medicines react badly when sea salt is introduced into the
>body, and medical doctors will typically rule out sea salt for
>pregnant/nursing women. But it's not the natuarilly occuring elements in
>sea salt that renders it non-kosher, it's the non-kosher animals and animal
>parts (excretia) it contains. Sea salt is very different from mined salt
>and solar evaporated salt
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