[Avodah] Chometz milking question

[Zev Sero]

On 9/04/2011 2:43 PM, Eliyahu Grossman wrote:
> Ok, here in Israel, starting this week, all cows will be given only kitniyot
> to eat - no chometz.
>
> Around the rest of the world, they don't do that.

Around the rest of the world, milk is not produced for the Jewish market
on Pesach.  We buy all our milk before Pesach, so that anything that
might somehow have got into it will have become batel.  Those who are
super-careful strain it to be sure that there is no solid foreign matter
in it, which would not be batel.  So what goes on during Pesach is of no
concern to us.  The goy will produce milk as he usually does, and will
sell it to his fellow goyim, and after Pesach we will resume buying from
him as usual.  But if you have a Jewish dairy farm, it can't just shut
down during Pesach; it's producing milk, in which any chametz would not
be batel, so the situation is quite different.


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