It seems the real reason is because Tara is, expectedly, moving to the kashrut services of the Eida Hachareidis. The implied accusation seems to be that the Eida has encouraged Tara in recent months to break the rules of Agudat Yisrael in order to void the contract between them or even if just to make the break easier and more mutual. Tara has been under the hashgacha of Agudat Yisrael for 60 years.
It seems the Eida hechsher will begin appearing on tara products next week. In the meantime, during the transition period, some products continue to appear with the Agudat Yisrael hechsher and newly produced products will bear the Westheim kashrut certification.
sources: NRG, Kikar, Actualic, and more
This seems to be big news, but for the average consumer it does not really make much of a difference. Moving from one mehadrin hechsher to another, the standards are probably pretty similar. At the end of the day, this is almost entirely just business - they think they'll be attractive to more customers by using the Eida hechsher.
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At least 90% of Kashrut is business. A very small part has anything to do with Halachah.
ReplyDeleteUm .. for those of us not in the know .. what country is this in?
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DeleteCould be "only business", but silly me, I always thought being straight in business also counted. Whether or not it affects the kashrut of the food or not. Somebody who plays games with the kashrut rules for money reasons under one hechsher might also play fast and loose with the kashrut rules under another hechsher and who is to guarantee the reason will be "harmless". Sheker isn't harmless, anyhow. That's just me. It may be that other businesses do the same sorts of things but personally, if I know a company will do that, I'd rather eat something else, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThey all do it. Every single one. (If I would be in the good business, I would put a paragraph in the contract forbidding such claims, when leaving. They will never agree.)
DeleteFood business. Not good. That too.
DeleteWhat always offends me is how the agency then takes out huge ads saying "not under our supervision!" and that's it. It happens in the US too, and it happened here.
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