<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">>>I know this has been discussed at length in many a learned article, but I<br>>>still don't understand the basic point. I thought the definition of<br>
>>"treifah" was that the animal had suffered a disease or injury that rendered it<br>>>non-viable -- that it would soon die. If this puncture leaves the cow<br>>>alive, healthy, and producing milk for many years, I just don't understand how<br>
>>it could possibly be considered "treifah."<br></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> If I remember correctly, RHS explained to me that whether we go by the science of the times to determine</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">if the animal would have lived through the year, or whether we go strictly according to the simanim of trefus that we have</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">a kabbalah on, is a machlokes rishonim between the Rashba and the Rambam. Apparently the dairy cows, after shechita,</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">almost all show the halachic signs of treifus. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> -MW</span></div>