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Default Hopefully last word on Kosher Salt (difference between Sea Salt and Kosher)

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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