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The Eda haCharedis in Y-m and Rav Landa in Bnei Brak are also charged with preserving the overall “kashrus” of their communities.
I don’t think either of them would withdraw a hechsher from a factory because the employees don’t dress properly, but they are far more than kashrus authorities when they certify any establishment in their own areas. Their job is to maintain “vehaya machanecho kodosh,” and food is just a part of their responsibility to their communities.
Rav Landa does not supervise any restaurant open past 7 PM in Bnei Brak and he has instituted rules about seating there as well in order to prevent 13th Avenue or Avenue J style “hanging out”. He doesn’t even think to institute or enforce seating rules in the employee cafeteria at Coca Cola (which is just a long Shabbos walk away from the heart of Torahdige Bnei Brak). I think he is stricter than the Eda haCharedis but they have the same mandate in “Yerushalayim shel maala” that he has in Bnei Brak.
Mo the Moiser Allen and company want to push a leftist, socialist, non-Torah agenda. They forget that tzedek is also the right of a hard-working entrepreneur to keep what is rightfully his and to make decisions that benefit his business and his consumers. He’d rather see the US become another Greece so he can flaunt his version of tzedek that comes out of the wildness of the 60’s counterculture which in turn was influenced by tzadikim like Guevara and Castro.