According to a breaking story in tonight’s Jerusalem Post, Israel’s state rabbinical authority has Häagen-Dazs ice cream, a popular US-made premium brand, is not kosher and that stores which sell the ice cream in defiance of the ruling face the revocation of their religious licenses as officials “clean” stores.
Interestingly, Häagen-Dazs itself was founded by Polish-Jewish immigrants to the United States, who used the Danish-sounding name as a marketing tool because they believed Danes to be associated with dairy products.
But the company, now a subsidiary of General Mills, has run afoul of Israeli rabbis over its use of liquid milk instead of milk powder, since many of the dairy farmers producing the milk are not Jewish and don’t have rabbis hanging out on their farms all the time supervising them.
This is an issue, the official notice warns, because “sages” have issued a ban on the consumption of non-Jewish farmers’ milk unless it was supervised, fearing that “it may be adulterated with milk from a non-kosher animal.”
Of course, non-kosher animal milk is not commonly used in the United States in the first place, with the only example being the relatively uncommon sale of camel milk, a much more expensive alternative to cow’s milk. Still, the threat that such milk may get snuck into Häagen-Dazs ice cream for some inscrutable reason threatens the company’s ability to continue selling its product in Israel.
Guess someone forgot their little religious contribution.
I guess white phosphorus and cluster bombs are kosher.
freaking neo nazi lowlife
They must be otherwise the most moral army in the entire Universe wouldn't use them.
This is just another stunt to keep America products away from the market. It is amazing how they want the USA to hire Israeli rabbis to stand around and watch the cows eat grass. I suspect the Israeli rabbis would spend most of the time skiing the wonderful ski trails of vermont looking to make sure no cow break “clean” rules. This would keep with as they claim Moses going up in the mountain and looking for cows but only finding the 10 commandants.
I kind of think that the real reason is control of our world to keep a bunch of welfare individual living the good life while our combat soldiers who were wounded in wars started by the chosen can look forward to nothing much less having too much time as to worry about what the cows do searching for grass.
It just confirms my view that kosher is a scam to provide employment for rabbis.
BTW, just imagine the outcry in the western media if Muslims adopted the same approach. Sixteen hours since the JPost published the article, and antiwar.com is the only media outlet to pick it up.
I've come to the same conclusion about male circumcision.
I say, "Let them ban it!"
Maybe the ice cream prices in Florida will go down ))) Their loss, our gain ))
Every year the Publix stores offer Kosher Matzo and other Kosher staples during the holidays… and every year they end up trying to sell stuff after holidays for pennies on a dollar. I guess the management is afraid to offend the two rabbis in my small town by not offering Kosher and prefers to pass losses on to the gentiles (((((
My paying lower price for ice cream will be a small consolation prize, but prize nevertheless))))