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To #7
February 14, 2010 12:34 pm

(1) The plain reading of #5 “I try my best to use OK or Chof-K when using simple mass market products that are OK” makes clear that the comment was for ANY product. Therefore he needs to know that what he considers “baseline kosher, basically those of Modern Orthodoxy” is the standard used by all hechsherim, since they rely on OU ingredients. (2) Meat or poultry have less kashrus complications than many other products. Once the shchita and melicha is al pi halacha, there is very little need to rely on kulas or hetairim which are resorted to when making… Read more »

To #6
February 14, 2010 5:08 am

I think you misunderstood #5. He or she is referring to glatt fleishig products. Although, I have never seen a glatt OU product without another Chareidi hechsher, I would not trust meat if it has ony a OU hechsher, and I am not Lubavitch.

To #5 The OU - Outstandingly Unacceptable
February 14, 2010 4:12 am

Keep eating the OK or Chof-K or mehadrin hechsherim, but be aware that the hechsherim always rely on the OU for the ingerdients – so at the end of the day, you ARE eating OU. No point keeping your head buried in the sand.

The OU - Outstandingly Unacceptable
February 13, 2010 9:10 pm

OU is NOT Charedi. It is a mass market hechsher with standards that are baseline kosher, basically those of Modern Orthodoxy. Its “posek” is the mecharcher riv Belsky. I try my best to use OK or Chof-K when using simple mass market products that are OK without a mehadrin hechsher in the US.

I think he meant Chassidishe Shcita
February 13, 2010 2:21 pm

not Charedi, OU is Charedi…
please correct

The truth
February 13, 2010 1:47 pm

Problem is – that the truth is that people ate Rubashkin not because of Badatz, but rather because Weissmandal and KAJ were good Hechshareim.
There are people that DAVKA to NOT eat Badatz.

its good to know
February 13, 2010 1:36 pm

its good to know that all the meat under the chk are shechted by LUBAVITCH shochtim i think this is the first and main lye tyhat is being told the the comunity who think carse about lubavutch shechita.

please tell me who is in uragury shechting all the coe=ws that come to the us under chk?????

and who was the shochtim that r shechcthing for lubavitch now in iowa.

to bemighty honest if you r godd fearing dont eat meat for i cant beleive that alkl this meat coming under the chk is actually shechted by a lubavutcher.

lubavitcher
February 13, 2010 1:05 pm

is he trying to say that the people that shechy for the chk in agristar are lubavitchers (and not just people that learn chassidus)????
when i was there last year it wasnt like that so did it change???

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