Rabbi Gronesh (sp) is a very well respected Rav in the New York Flatbush area.
Last week he told me very clearly in no uncertain terms that the requirement for Cholov Yisroael was L’chatchila.
And he said it more then once making sure I heard it clearly with no uncertainties whatsoever.
When I asked him about those who eat Cholov Stam who quote Rav Feinstien and the idea that in America Cholov Stam was relied on in that the laws requred it to not have anything in it that would make it trief (not that American law was made for Kashrus’ sake but in this case, it works out that way) Rav Gronesh told me that
there are those Rabbonim who rely on the idea that C’S’ according to them fulfills the requirement for C’Y’, and some people follow that.
But he made it clear that there is no question whatsoever that
C’Y’ is L’chatchila and that C’S’ is not “the same” as C’Y’.
As I have said before I personally am no scholar and do not know these things.
This is what a very well respected Rav, who gives Heschers all over the world (from what others, not the Rav himself has said in response to my questions about why he sometimes did not join the minyan in his shule, for a few days at time), has told me.
Those who argue with my repetition and understanding of what the Rav said, can ask him themselves.
Those who argue with the ideas themselves, are not arguing with me, they are arguing with the Rav.