[Avodah] Believing Companies - Kashrus

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 04:35:28PM -0500, Prof. Levine wrote:
: At 04:00 PM 12/9/2009, R. Micha wrote:
...
: >I think what you're asking boils down to:
: >Can you be sure that if a company has two options, claims to be using
: >the cheaper one, they wouldn't have any of the more expensive one
: >around?

: >Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits
...
: "After giving some thought to our conversation today  I want to add 
: the following:
: Although the non-Jew said they use vegetable ingredients there is no 
: one making sure this is always done and non-vegetable glycerin is 
: cheaper than vegetable..."

: If one cannot rely on what a non-Jew (I assume this applies to a 
: non-religious Jew also) tells you, then how can one follow lists?

That's not a question to ask me, that's a question you would have had
to have asked R' Yechekel Abramsky, Dayan Grossnass, Dayan Dr Isidor
Grunfeld, etc... who formalized LBD's and other such lists.

It would seem that gedolei Torah who know the laws of neemanus don't all
agree with RMDL.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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