[Avodah] [Areivim] RHS and dairy

[Daniel Israel]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:12:09 -0600 martin brody 
<martinlbrody at gmail.com> wrote:
>I don't know if anybody answered this yet, but it is my 
understanding that
>RHS considers cows as suffeik treifas, and rejects rov as measured 
at
>slaughter. As we mostly slaughter steers for meat, maybe he thinks 
milking
>cows are subject to some sort of problem that increases the 
likelihood of
>being trefiot

So, what can we do about this?

That is, it seems to me impossible to say that the Torah intended 
that their be a time when dairy products are impossible to obtain 
in a kosher manner.  Furthermore, it seems clear that those who 
hold this way (AFAIK RHS is not the only one) have to be relying on 
more than simple safek, because it has always been true that some 
cows turn out to be treif, and, again AFAIK, we never see this 
chashash in the Gemara or rishonim.

So I must assume that there is some way the problem could be 
avoided, it is just that whatever the necessary steps are, they 
aren't being taken.  Now, given that this is a very minority 
opinion, it may be perfectly reasonable that they aren't being 
taken.  But I would be very interested to know what, at least in 
theory, would have to be done to avoid this problem according to 
this opinion.

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu