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As Rabbi Yehuda Spitz explains, for many dairy-look pareve products there is an understanding among the general [religious Jewish] population that, even though it looks like it's dairy, it's not, and, because of that understanding, there's no need to specially indicate to people that the product is pareve. Even for those who wish to be more stringent, he explains, and even for products without such an understanding, it's sufficient to have a product label indicating the pareve status. He's referring to meat and milk issues, i.e. whether a dairy-look pareve food can be served with meat. Likely, then, the same would apply to the question of whether a meat-and-milk-look product can be served at all, and perhaps also to the question of whether a non-kosher-species-look product can be served at all. Then a label indicating the kosher status would suffice — and these products have that.

As Rabbi Yehuda Spitz explains, for many dairy-look pareve products there is an understanding among the general [religious Jewish] population that, even though it looks like it's dairy, it's not, and, because of that understanding, there's no need to specially indicate to people that the product is pareve. Even for those who wish to be more stringent, he explains, and even for products without such an understanding, it's sufficient to have a product label indicating the pareve status. He's referring to meat and milk issues, i.e. whether a dairy-look pareve food can be served with meat. Likely, then, the same would apply to the question of whether a meat-and-milk-look product can be served at all, and perhaps also to the question of whether a non-kosher-species-look product can be served at all. Then a label indicating the kosher status would suffice — and these products have that.

As Rabbi Yehuda Spitz explains, for many dairy-look pareve products there is an understanding among the general population that, even though it looks like it's dairy, it's not, and, because of that understanding, there's no need to specially indicate to people that the product is pareve. Even for those who wish to be more stringent, he explains, and even for products without such an understanding, it's sufficient to have a product label indicating the pareve status. He's referring to meat and milk issues, i.e. whether a dairy-look pareve food can be served with meat. Likely, then, the same would apply to the question of whether a meat-and-milk-look product can be served at all, and perhaps also to the question of whether a non-kosher-species-look product can be served at all. Then a label indicating the kosher status would suffice — and these products have that.

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msh210 ♦
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  • 73.9k
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As Rabbi Yehuda Spitz explains, for many dairy-look pareve products there is an understanding among the general [religious Jewish] population that, even though it looks like it's dairy, it's not, and, because of that understanding, there's no need to specially indicate to people that the product is pareve. Even for those who wish to be more stringent, he explains, and even for products without such an understanding, it's sufficient to have a product label indicating the pareve status. He's referring to meat and milk issues, i.e. whether a dairy-look pareve food can be served with meat. Likely, then, the same would apply to the question of whether a meat-and-milk-look product can be served at all, and perhaps also to the question of whether a non-kosher-species-look product can be served at all. Then a label indicating the kosher status would suffice — and these products have that.