[Avodah] Chometz milking question

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Eliyahu Grossman asked:

> 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.

You are presuming that if the cows would eat chometz right up until Pesach then there would be a problem with the milk that they produce. And maybe there would be. Or maybe it is just a practical step in the process of cleaning the area to insure that no chometz grains fall into the milk on Chol Hamoed.

R' Zev Sero wrote:

> 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.

In my part of the world (New Jersey) those who drink Cholov Hacompanies can find plenty of it during Chol Hamoed with an OUP on it, and my (totally ignorant) guess is that it is pretty fresh.

Those who drink only Cholov Yisroel can also find plenty of certified Kosher L'Pesach milk in the stores on Chol Hamoed, though I suppose it's possible that it was all stored at the dairy from Erev Pesach, with the Chol Hamoed prodiction being released only after yom tov.

Which communities strain their milk? I remember some people in Yerushalayim who stored large quantities of drinking water prior to Pesach (so that any chometz would be batel) but I never heard of straining milk.

Akiva Miller

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