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<font size=3>At 03:42 PM 12/10/2009, Meir Rabi wrote:<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I would appreciate your thoughts
re the sale of Kosher meat in sealed marked<br>
packaging to be sold in non-K butcher shops.<br>
Is there a concern for MAyin?</font></blockquote><br>
What I am going to describe is not exactly the situation you refer to.
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Here in Brooklyn the Shoprite on Macdonald Ave sells kosher meat in two
"varieties." There is meat that is butchered and packaged
at the store under the supervision of a R. Bick. There is also factory
packaged meat from Alle (Meal Mart) on sale. The kosher meat and
poultry are in a separate case. There is, of course, non-kosher meat an
poultry for sale in this store.<br><br>
I see no reason why I should not, and in fact I do, buy the factory
packaged Meal Mart meat and the factory packaged Empire chicken.
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Anyone who looks can see what I and many other kosher shoppers are
buying.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>Is the opportunity
for new customers to purchase K meat or purchase it more<br>
easily a valid argument to introduce this 'new' alternative?<br>
If we already accept pre-packged K meat in the supermarket, why should
a<br>
butcher shop be different?<br>
How different must a K product be from a similar or identical non-K
product?<br>
For example, if a company has been persuaded to manufacture a Kosher run
of<br>
a food which is otherwise not K, and the K version is identifiable only
by a<br>
letter of digit alongside the 'use by date', how concerned must we be
that K<br>
shoppers will inadvertently purchase the non-K
look-alike?</font></blockquote><br>
Personally, I would not buy something that does not have a recognizable
hashgacha on it. <br><br>
YL<br>
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