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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>In what I sent out
earlier from
<a href="http://www.lohud.com/article/20100309/NEWS03/3090385/No-pox-on-lox--insists-Monsey-group" eudora="autourl">
http://www.lohud.com/article/20100309/NEWS03/3090385/No-pox-on-lox--insists-Monsey-group</a>
I quoted<br><br>
"Go ahead, eat lox," said Yisroel Neiman, a member of
Chevra Mehadrin, a Monsey organization that prepared a report on fish and
Jewish law. "It's kosher I just had some."<br><br>
Neiman said he had no idea why the report was being interpreted to mean
that salmon, the fish from which nova lox is made, violates Jewish
dietary law.<br><br>
"They made it up," Neiman said, referring to media
organizations who attributed the ban on lox to the report. "It's a
lie. We never said lox isn't kosher."</blockquote><br>
I have learned from Rabbi Chaim Goldberg of the OU that Neiman's
statements are misleading. Rabbi Goldberg explained the following to me.
Some fish are produced on "fish farms" whereas as other fish is
caught in is natural habitat. Fish produced under controlled
conditions on farms is called farmed fish and fish that are caught in
their natural habitat are called wild caught. <br><br>
This Monsey group and the others who claim that there are worms in our
fish are referring to wild caught fish. Take a look at a can of Alaskan
salmon. You will see that it says wild caught on it. <br><br>
Virtually all lox is made from farmed salmon. This Monsey group and the
others who hold like they do regarding there being worms in fish agree
that there is no problem with worms in farmed salmon. <br><br>
Thus, Neiman can say there is no problem with lox and that he just had
some, since virtually all lox is made from farmed salmon.<br><br>
The impression given by the news blurb is that there is no problem with
worms in fish according to the Monsey group. But this is not their
position. They still maintain that certain types of wild caught fish do
have worms in them.<br>
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Yitzchok Levine</font></body>
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