No it's not.  The "community of food purveyors AND ... their
mashgichin" can just use a different agency.  All the kashrut agency is
doing is assigning a particular meaning to its particular stamp of
approval.  &quot;Gzeirah&quot; implies coercion.<br><font color="#888888">
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David Riceman</font><br><br><br>no g&#39;zeira implies that<br>&quot;anything halachically muttar taht is prohibited as a &quot;syag&quot;<br><br>See my posts on g&#39;zzeira from Rambam and Shulchan Aruch <br><br clear="all">
also I define it to apply to POLICIES<br><br><br>-- <br>Shalom uVRacha<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a><br><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nishma-Minhag/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nishma-Minhag/</a><br>
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