[Avodah] bittul

[Eli Turkel]

<<It's not for nothing that Chazal, and l'havdil the FDA, accept the
notion of bittul. There is no danger (physical or spiritual) from
those few parts per
million of extra organic matter. The only halachic concern is because a
berya is not battel. >>

Which leads to the question whether bittul is lechatchila or beidieved.
I assume that if we know that a piece of treif meat fell in a pot with
60 kosher pieces many people would forgo the steak even though
halachically it is kosher because of bittul. There are even shitot
that one can eat all 61 pieces (not at once) since each is a safek.
Again I assume many would forgo that privelege.

Thus, if one was sure that there were pieces of bugs in ones food but
they were battel would everyone say that one can eat it lechatchila or
would some say that there is at least a minhag chassidut not to eat
it.

To put it another way if there are 2 hasgachot available on an item,
one uses bittul in their hasgacha and the other one doesn't is there
any reason to prefer the more "machmir" hasgacha ?

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Eli Turkel