now for something different: the OU position on Impossible Pork is ridiculous.The point of a hechsher is to declare whether something is kosher or not, not how someone *feels* about something being kosher or not.
Also, this could very well become a stumbling block leading folk to eat trief, because if they decide to buy Impossible Pork anyway because, at this moment, all its ingredients are kosher, there's no failsafe to inform if the recipe is changed.
Also, this flies in the face of the dictums that everything forbidden in this world has an acceptable counterpart, and also that it is easy to declare something assur, the challenge is to see how something is muttar.
This decision is an unnecessary restriction, and perhaps a barrier for those trying to become kosher, because if even perfectly kosher fake pork can't get a hechsher, why bother bending over backwards when they can just get the real thing?
And as for "Oh! People are/will be confused" stance, here's an easy solution: Just don't buy it. I don't see ppl who eat chalav Yisrael "confused" by OU-D.
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