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Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:55:25 +0200
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Vivian Stated
"Another really good market would be a "kosher honey", certified by
specialists within the Jewish community.   It involves having your
operation certified as clean, and not having non kosher things
contaminating it, but it is another specialty industry that has a lot
of following and is used to high markups due to the additional effort."

I have had an interesting experience in this regard.
My wife runs an educational centre where children come to see how the bee
operates on our farm. We have a wide range of people coming through from
blind children to communal groups.  One such group was an orthodox Jewish
group.  They really enjoyed the visit and wanted to buy some product but
first wanted to see how the product was produced. They wanted honey as fresh
as could be without being heated or filtered.  This I said I could produce
and so I extracted the honey in a stainless steel centrifuge and then
allowed the honey to pass through a fine wire mesh gauze.  In explaining to
the group what was happening they wanted to look at the sieve.  They saw the
bits of wax and other things contained and then someone asked what the small
black particles were.  I sort of half heatedly told them it was bee's knees.
They then became quite alarmed, refusing to buy any honey.  Their argument
was that the honey had become contaminated with something dead, and their
religion forbade them to consume such things.

Eddy Lear
South Africa

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