[Avodah] Psak about Muscovy Duck from the Rabbinical Institute for Kosher Supervision and Research

[Ben Waxman]

I hear your point, but I did just realize something. Rav Salant died 100 
years ago. The beit din could easily say that for him, it was fine. Anyone 
today who eats the duck is eating treif. Just like 100 years ago people, 
including rabbanim, ate things that no one today would dream of eating, so 
too with the duck.

Ben
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zev Sero" <zev at sero.name>

No, that is not at all what the Ksav Sofer was saying.  That would not
have stopped the DC's campaign against the mikveh.  After all, he already
knew that the KS had endorsed it, and that didn't stop him.  It was only
when the KS informed him that he had personally been born from such a
mikveh, i.e. his mother had used one built to the same design, that the
DC called off his campaign.  He was not prepared to publicly call the
CS a boel nidah, and the KS a ben-hanidah.