http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html

Myself, I prefer SwamiSalt. Blessed by the Mahatma himself.

Anonymous@101: Damn! I swear I wasn’t copying you. Yours is better anyway.

There are certain people who have a need to get defensive and upset over their religion, to the point that they see demons everywhere and will misinterpret things to show that they are being persecuted. The Christian salt guy is one example, and Jesus-Is-My-Pirate is another.

Is JIMP annoyed with bias in general, or just against Christianity? For example, does he care about anti-Muslim bias? How about anti-atheist bias? I have never met a Christian who didn’t have a bias against atheism or agnosticism, and most of the ones I’ve met had strong biases against other religions. So who’s better here?

I personally think “blessed” anything is silly. Blessed salt reminds me too much of the Catholic church selling “indulgences”, which was one of the catalysts for the Reformation, and that was for fund raising too.

Scientology salt is $300/lb, but it’ll give you superhuman abilities.

See me @34. You might get it. Anonymous #38: doesn’t.

As for Kosher/non-kosher salt- as posters above have said, kosher salt is so called because its large grains make it good for removing blood from meat, and Jewish dietary laws prohibit the consumption of blood.
Only animal products can be treyf (non-Kosher). However, other food can be made non-Kosher in certain circumstances- such as if they’re mixed with something that isn’t (bacon-flavoured salt), they come into contact with certain sorts of vermin, or (and this is the good bit) they have been sacrificed to idols.

And the “kosher certification” of the ingredients is to ensure mostly that the first 2 circumstances don’t apply.

Ooo, there’s the kiss of death. Christians who do and say blatantly anti-Semitic things invariably follow it up with the I-love-Jesus-and-he-was-a-Jew defense.

*Ahem*

Oh, Christian salt, what, you mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPY1bUpCgMA

I would like to make it clear that “Kosher salt” is just as big of a rip-off as “Christian salt” (surely they cost more).

My 3 lb box of Diamond Kosher salt was $2.95. My 1 lb box of regular ol’ iodized salt was $0.95. The Kosher salt 3 cents/lb more. That not much of a scam…

That aside, many people can certainly taste the iodine. As to whether it cures goiter — we already get enough iodine as it is here in the West. IF you’re going to be exporting salt to malnourished populations, though, well then don’t send the Kosher salt. Better for us if we don’t give it all away anyway…

That one never gets old. I like it even better than “I can’t be racist, I’m (insert minority here)”

I don’t know how someone could think he was antisemitic. He’s just an entrepreneur who “plans an entire line of Christian-branded foods, including rye bread, bagels and pickles.”