In other words, every agency, organization, and individual out there giving hashgacha should be doing a proper job.
Unfortunately, many are not, even to the point that one cannot eat at
establishments that they certify or eat the products that they certify unless
the kashrus system is independently verified.
Ubiquitous under-performance, even in bastions of holiness, does not make it
more acceptable to do a sub-standard job, but it allows us to be more kind in
considering that a deficient agency, organization, or individual is not a
standout, but one of many.
The reasons vary: lack of expertise in kashrus systems, lack of
management skills, lack of budget, lack of the community’s willingness to
properly fund a top-notch, or even Halachically acceptable, kashrus program,
misplaced compassion towards unqualified staff, turf wars, negligence, and
sometimes even avarice and lack of yir’as Shamayim.
But the consequences are the same: a community unknowingly eats that which
is Halachically prohibited, and the knowing of the community are left with no
good options and are frowned upon by the unknowing.
May Hashem protect all His children and grant us all to eat properly kosher
food.
The following article appeared in the past in KASHRUS
Magazine (reprinted with some clarification.)
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