I can’t believe that we’ve gotten this far without anyone mentioning the conflict of interest that the Kashrus agencies have. They benefit from being asked to give hechsherim. Starbucks has not asked them for a hechsher (and there are various urban legends about this). How can you then trust them when they recommend that you not drink there? In such a case, it makes a lot of sense to evaluate their arguments but not to accept their specific psak – especially when their psak is so much stricter than their strongest arguments would indicate.
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