Ha'aretz reports:
A woman and her daughter petitioned the Tel Aviv District Court Monday to recognize a suit they were filing against Elite-Strauss and the Israeli Chief Rabbinate as a class action. The two, residents of Givat Shmuel, keep kosher.
The grounds for the suit are a claim that some of the company's products - including Milki and Daniella dairy desserts and Ski whipped cream cheese - contain imported gelatin produced from beef bones. According to this claim, the animals from which the gelatin was produced were not certified as kosher.
However, the Chief Rabbinate had marked the products in question as kosher.…
I wonder if consumers would have grounds for a class action against Rubashkin and the OU, KAJ, UMK, etc. No one buying Rubashkin expected to be eating animals whose throats were ripped out with meat hooks. It seems as if the rabbinic imprimaturs intentionally mislead consumers – Jewish and non-Jewish alike. Perhaps some bright young attorney would like to give this case a try …