Nope, the issue is that some legalistic rabbinical fools have declared that Häagen-Dazs is made with milk from farmers who are not Jewish and who use cows that are not kosher.
Milk produced by non-Jews without Jewish supervision was forbidden by the sages of the Talmud due to a concern that it may be adulterated with milk from a non-kosher animal.
So all of you Christian and atheist dairymen/women out there had been stop selling your milk to Häagen-Dazs. You are polluting ice cream with your dirty, filthy, unclean, pagan milk!
So what's a poor legalist supposed to do? This Rabbi had this to say:In an update sent by the rabbinate on Sunday, the kashrut department said that because Häagen-Dazs is made with unsupervised liquid milk, as opposed to milk powder, the marketing and sale of the ice cream in establishments and outlets with kashrut certification is not acceptable and constitutes “a severe infringement of kashrut procedures.”
“We request from those providing kashrut certificates not to permit the sale of this product in places with [kashrut] supervision,” the notice read. “One should not take into account the opinion of kashrut advisers in this matter who request to continue selling this product, and if the management of any chain insists on selling them it is possible that ‘kashrut [license] withdrawal’ may be enacted against them, according to the law.”
Asked what Häagen-Dazs lovers should do instead, he replied, “Love God more than ice-cream.”
Asked what Herbert Armstrong thought about it, they found out that there was Häagen-Dazs served in his home all the time. If HWA ate it, so can I!
Surprise! ‘Häagen-Dazs not kosher’
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