[Avodah] Glatt Was Imported to the US by Hungarian 'Hassidim

[Arie Folger]

RMB and RSZ have been discussing how Hungarians apparently brought
Glatt to America, and that since their slaughterhouses were
independent (free of Mafia involvment), glatt became synonymous with
reliable. RMB wanted to use that as a backdrop upon which to develop
the thesis that entire Hungarian 'Hassidic communities were strict in
eating only glatt.

My US$0.02:

Just also remember that the Hungarians have a very lenient shittah of
glatt. Theirs is the messorah that distinguishes between ririn and
sirkhot, which is not very obvious to outsiders. Thus, Hungarian glatt
is not 'halaq Beit Yossef.

Alsol before the massive industrialization of cattle ranching, animals
had a heathier diet (corn is really hard for them to digest, and let's
not get started on the formula poor veal have to limit themselves to),
so that there were less ['hashash] tereifot.

Kol tuv,
-- 
Arie Folger,
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