Sam2, the animal’s natural diet is grass. Feeding it grain and who knows what else, serves the commercial cause, not the animal’s benefit, nor the consumer’s benefit. My other chumra, I mentioned that I read too much, and the abuses and shenanigans all start with commercialization. I could show you a bunch of sources that show that while there is no limit to consumption of kodesh, there should be limits to basar taavah, and that just going to Moishe’s Koisher and selecting a nice celowrapped brisket is less than what the Musar of the gemara wants of us. And I learned to live with kabolos that I made, that may have the stringency of neder.
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