You're back? You're the guy from that website GoyimGazette, right? You're the so-called antisemite who keeps telling everyone kosher certified food is super-healthy? You chose the wrong time to start your thread because I happen to be the guy who completely debunked your big thread last year about kosher food being so much healthier and I think I even saved it somewhere.
I have a folder of pictures of non-edible products with kosher symbols on it, Palmolive soap, detergent, aluminum foil, floor cleaning products, etc.. They only do it for the money, they wouldn't know how to care about health because the filthy rabbis have no fucking clue what's healthy and what's not. Just look at them.
SR/GG: "Stuff with the Kosher stamp never said anything about GMO, so I followed my hunch and sure enough…"
Even a lot of organic certified stuff don't say anything about GMOs on their labels so that's not even a good starting point. You can have a product that's certified organic but doesn't have the 'No GMOs' symbol because
A) 'organic' technically doesn't necessarily exclude all GMOs
and
B) you have to pay for all these certifications and some companies may have a real 'No GMOs' policy but when they see the cost or the complexity of having that symbol on their label they decide to only have one organic certification / symbol and put 'No GMOs' on the label without an official certification that it's GMO-free.
SR/GG: "The private US entity responsible for issuing a Kosher certification for foods decided back in April of 2013 that Jews shouldn't be eating GMO."
Nah that's not what your own source says, read it again, 1st paragraph of that 'The Forward' article:
"When the only kosher agency to certify organic food for the USDA announced last month that it will no longer grant kosher certification for products that contain GMOs (genetically modified organisms), it had me wondering: What is the relationship between kosher food and health?"
1. You forgot one word: organic. Organic food and non-organic food are two different categories even though when you take a closer look the differences may not be as big as you think they are. You say all kosher food is GMO-free but your source says USDA certified organic products that are also certified kosher by the group 'NFC' – a small % of all the kosher products – are supposed to be GMO-free.
2. It's not true or it's no longer true, they're not the only kosher agency to certify organic food for the USDA. For example I have in front of me a bottle of Gingerade made in California and the label has the USDA Organic symbol with a kosher symbol that's not the NFC symbol, it's a K inside a big C the symbol of 'Kosher Certification Service'.
So people who eat kosher food still eat all kinds of GMO products but if you eat USDA certified organic products that are also certified kosher by 'NFC' then it's not supposed to contain GMOs. But the policies of each jewish certification agency changes from group to group, there's no centralized set of rules, and you can bet they cut corners if there's enough cash in the enveloppe.
And if the certification for organic products is as sloppy and unscientific as the rest of the kosher certifications – and you can bet it is – then the rabbis don't even have a clue on how to find out if there's GMOs or not besides taking the telephone and asking the guy at the other end of the line Hello does your food contain GMOs?.
^ ^ ^ That's the message he's trying to push. I'm going to try to find the thread from last year and post the link.