[Avodah] Price of Non-glatt Meat versus Glatt

[Mandel, Seth]

The difference is between cost and price.

It costs more to produce plain kosher. And even more to keep glatt and
plain kosher separate.

Price is determined by supply and demand. There is much less demand
for plain kosher nowadays (vs 60 years ago). The number of Cons. and
Refo. Jews buying only kosher meat has and is dropping. Most O. now
buy only glatt.

The ^fewer cows^ is not the determining factor, since all meat goes to
the treifene factory owner, and the Jewish company only buys the kosher
or glatt. The issue is just dividing the costs of the shu`bim between
the kosher animals. The bigger the production, the less it matters.
Yes, fewer kosh'er'glatt, the higher the cost per animal. Butthe other
factors balance that out.

Excuse the punctuation. Keyboards down here in S. America work funny.

Rabbi Seth Mandel
Rabbinic Coordinator
The Orthodox Union