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DY you’re stretching what I said. All I’m saying is that it shouldn’t be physically painful to have to eat something that’s inherently kosher. RoB put it well.. where’s the limit?

I find it very difficult to imagine vegetables with soil still on them, being washed in clay vessels, with no soap would have been inspected for black specks that are too small to identify as bug or dirt. The average Jew 3000 years ago didn’t have crystal clear running water, light-up cutting boards, or steel spoons to scoop black specks from tubs of water. Yet, they still ate their veggies somehow. Unless we have a bigger chiyuv of hishtadlus to not eat bugs (b/c of technology), I don’t see why it was okay for them to do it one way but not for us.