[Avodah] re Halachic guidlines for kashrut

[Zev Sero]

On 29/11/2011 5:44 PM, martin brody wrote:
> Don't think so. Or did you mean Los Angeles in general? Where the RCC have
> basically outlawed non-glatt meat. The less expensive option, especially
> in these hard economic times.

How could non-glatt meat be *less* expensive than glatt?  The labour
involved in checking the lungs must surely make it *more* expensive.


> Try buying a bottle of non-mevushal wine in a restaurant. No chance.

That's a matter of practicality, not a standard of kashrut; no rabbi
in LA will tell you that you can't have non-mevushal wine at home.
In a restaurant, where they are responsible for the kashrut of what you
eat, and where it would be all too easy for non-mevushal wine to become
treif, they don't want to assume the risk.  It's exactly the same as not
allowing milk & meat in the same kitchen in a restaurant, even though
every home does have them both.

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