Jerusalem – Tnuva, Israel’s largest dairy products manufacturer, agreed to lower cottage cheese prices by about 20 percent following a nationwide boycott.
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The company announced Wednesday that it would lower the recommended price of a 9-ounce tub of cottage cheese by about from $2.17 to $1.70.
More than 100,000 Facebook users indicated their support for the boycott by signing on to a page urging the action started by a 25-year-old haredi Orthodox Israeli man.
And we pay almost $4 for a 16 oz tub cheese, lets start a boycott too.
Kol Hakovod!! Maybe we can do this with our School’s Bus system that charges $1400 per year per child
and we pay about 5 bucks here in miami, wish we could boycott somehow :o(
$1400 for a least 180 days and 2 trips a day comes to $3.88 per trip, including pickup by the door and return. I drove a bus and it is not very easy. You have to make your runs quickly and everyday the same people are not outside when you come. They eat their breakfast on the bus which you have to keep clean. There is how insurance [taken kids in the city] wear and tear, fuel, repairs and replacement.
It is not a full days work either. One to one and half hours in the morning and two to two and half in the afternoon. Many time the parents think you are their personal chauffeur, bring Moshe to my sister, my mother or some other place even though it is not on your route.
Cottage cheese is foolishly simple to make. If you don’t insist on Cholov Yisroel milk you can get more than a pound of cheese from a gallon of milk ($2.25 at my local supermarket), a few pennies worth of cream and a couple pennies more for either salt and vinegar or kosher rennet.