[Avodah] Is any meat today kosher?

Zev Sero via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Tue Mar 21 16:01:55 PDT 2017


On 21/03/17 18:47, Simon Montagu via Avodah wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:37 AM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
>> This isn't true. Tza'ar baalei chaim does not make an animal treif.

> Where does he say it does? His whole point is that "kashrut" is a larger
> concept that whether a specific animal is treif or not.

Which is something he just made up.

On 21/03/17 19:00, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> But his implication is still that there is an issur cheftza on the
> resulting meat. That hast yet to be proven. There might be an
> issur derabbanan if there is a communal notion of mesayeiah -- if
> the frum community supporting the white veal industry is en mass
> mesayeia ZBC.

That could only be an issue if we were the only people eating this, or 
at least a significant sector of those who eat it.  Instead we're a 
completely insignificant sector, except in EY.  If we were to asser it 
the farmers wouldn't even notice.

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Zev Sero                May 2017, with its *nine* days of Chanukah,
zev at sero.name           be a brilliant year for us all



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