Kosher Supervision: How Much is Politics?
My D.H. just sent me an article about the kashrut questions on Hebrew National hot dogs and salami. They themselves say they're kosher, but the hechsher, Triangle-K (Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag is Rav Hamachshir) is not accepted in the Haredi or Hassidic community and as a result, we don't use it. Granted, the meat from Hebrew National is not glatt. But read this, and tell me why it should not be considered kosher? Non-glatt meat is still kosher, although some would say, not to the highest standards, which they consider that glatt, is. "Non Glatt" means that there was some question about the meat, a mark on the lungs, and the lungs are blown up and inspected even more thoroughly. "Glatt" means smooth (in Hebrew, halak ), or, no marks on it, so the meat passes through without the extra inspection of the blown-up lungs. It seems to me, that the doubly-inspected meat--if it is not rejected because a moom, or blemish, was found on it which would disqualify it as ...