Beetles are not a kosher food, and now the hometown of the Beetles, Liverpool, England is now less kosher as well.
A few weeks ago, Rosemans, a store that was supervised under the Liverpool Kashrut Commission (LKC), was caught with non-kosher meat. The LKC had worked out an arrangement where Rosemans could still operate under a limited form of supervision. In the interim, the LKC also offered Rosemans alternative options wherein they could continue to offer the Liverpool Jewish community kosher meat under its supervision.
Robert Kaye was the owner of Rosemans under whom the scandal had occurred. Mr. Kay passed away suddenly at the age of 43. It was recently announced that the ownership of Rosemans had declined to pursue any of the options that the LKC had offered.
The problem with the non-kosher meat was not an isolated incident. It had been going on for years.
Unfortunately, the concept of long-term scandals with non-kosher food is not new. The largest and most prestigious of Kashrus organizations have inadvertently granted supervision to businesses that have engaged in such fraud. These scandals have occurred in Monsey, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Paris, France, Johannesburg, SA and Jerusalem, Israel. YWN calls upon the Kashrus organizations to create programming and training to ensure that these type of scandals not occur in the future.
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I believe the limited form of supervision meant limited products and only those that didn’t need much supervision(packaged goods and the like).Otherwise it makes no sense that they would offer limited hashgacha on a place that already went behind their back. Not making a choteh niscar here. Please fix this point.
How stupid does the author think YWN readers are?
Beetles are insects
BEATLES was the name of the band from Liverpool.
Poor attempt at humor, try fact checking your articles before embarrassing YWN
“YWN calls upon the Kashrus organizations to create programming and training to ensure that these type of scandals not occur in the future”
Sadly, as long as the price differential between kosher and non-kosher foods remains as great as it is, there will always be some individuals who seek to make illicit profits by substituting one for the other and pocketing the difference. Training programs for mashgichim can go a long way to detecting such frauds but I’m skeptical it can be totally eliminated.. Perhaps some efforts to reduce the price differential would reduce the incentive (along with more intensive scrutiny by the hashgacha organizations.).
“YWN calls upon the Kashrus organizations to create programming and training to ensure that these type of scandals not occur in the future.”
Ha!
There are many things, (lashon harah etc.) that YWN can be called on to rectify, too.
You are NOT the standard bearers of Yiddishkeit!
@Gadolhadorah, do you think there a people walking away rich from kosher meat production? How exactly can they make it cheaper unless you and your friends want to volunteer to work for free. The reasons kosher products are more expensive is because more people are involved in the manufacturing and processing. Additionally whatever training programs are implemented, will obviously raise the production cost even more!
Yes, Kashrus organanisations must up their game and employ methods to investigate and make their seals harder to pirate. However, they are not the CIA and have limited resources. Besides, their remit is to make sure their product is kosher.
The onus lies on the consumer to be more savvy, go to your butcher or caterer and ask questions, who supplies your meat today? who is the mashgiach? Etc.
The same goes by a Kiddush. There are party planners who have no Hechsher and while they may have heimish names they have limited knowledge about Kashrus and can’t be trusted not to cut corners as it effects their bottom line profit. So, at a kiddush ask the host- under who’s supervision is this event? And if it’s just a heimishe party planner stick to Diet Coke. Even with the most noble intentions there are always issues with kashrus of ingredients, cooking utensils, Bishul Akum, meat and fish products transported by a non Jew without being wrapped properly, Mix ups with Milky and Meaty serving dishes, etc.
All the stringencies and safeguards that Kashrus organisations employ, are not followed by private caterers, leading to terrible breaches in kashrus and Chillul Shabbos.
“The readers of YWN call upon YWN to create programming and training to ensure that no lashon hora appears on it’s website in the future”.