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Avi K: Just someone? I use primarily Otzer Bais Din. There is also outside of the Shmittah Gevul and from Chutz La’Aretz. I would never use Badatz because it is Gevul Nochri, a euphemism for Arab produce. Badatz successfully lobbied to allow the poison from Gaza to enter Israel.
Are we to support the terrorists who try to kill us? Even Heter Mechirah is better than that.
By the way, there is also other Halachic problems using Arab garbage. There are Arabs are halachically Jews, so there is a problem with using their produce because you don’t know who is whom and neither do most of them. Also, some unscrupulous Israeli farmers sell produce to Arabs who then sell it back to the Israeli market.