[Avodah] Rabbi Dovid Feinstein and Other Leading Rabbis Forbid Anisakis Worm in Fish

[Micha Berger]

There is still something I don't get... Anisakis worms have been
in Mediterranean fish since at least the Ancient Greeks, who mention
them. Are we saying the tannaim and amoraei EY ate treif? Quite possibly
bemeizid, since we're talking about an infestation already mentioned in
the Ebers papyrus (circa 1550 BCE), and by Aristo, Hyppocrytes and Galen
(2nd cent CE)? (Who also mention that it's the source of anisakiasis,
a similar infestation in a human patient r"l.)

We have been doing this for a while now, revisting old situations and
coming up with pesaqim that defy the old norms. Halachic process allows
for this, but not when it's motzi laaz al harishonim.

(But I'm with RRG -- another person who doesn't eat fish and wouldn't
understand why anyone would want wormy fish anyway...)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha