<div dir="ltr">I was merely responding to R. Dr. Yitzchak Levine's original extensive quote. <div><br></div><div>Butter was used as an example in <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Timothy Lytton's book Kosher</span> of a product that previously did not require any hashgacha, but because of changes in manufacturing process now require an hashgacha. </div>
<div><br></div><div style>What has changed? Now butter can be made from whey. </div><div style><br></div><div style>I noted that according to RMF zt"l, whey did not require an hashgacha and therefore butter should still not require an hashgacha. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>To state the obvious, both R. Blech and the OU have a significant financial stake in claiming that butter (and countless other products) can only be purchased with reliable hashgachah. Additionally, the RCA gets an annual payoff from the OU Kosher division (as per a longstanding arrangement) so RCA Rabbanim also have a strong incentive to to claim that products can only be purchased with a reliable hashgachah.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Again, assuming that RMF zt"l is the <i>posek hador</i>, why should butter only be purchased with a reliable hashgachah?</div><div style><br></div><div style>Which raised questions as to what degree is <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Timothy Lytton's book Kosher merely repeating the Kosher industry's party line?</span></div>
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