HINDQUARTERS MEATS ARE ALSO PERMISSIBLE FOR ASHKENAZIM

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The Teshuva ( Responsa/Ruling of Jewish Law) of Rav Moshe Feinstein 1895-1986 z"tl  allowing the modern day practice of eating from the kosher hindquarters.

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"...I do not see any reason to prohibit the process of Niqur when done by someone who is properly certified and qualified. The reason that Niqur is not generally performed nowadays is not for any prohibited reason, but only because modern day butchers (slaughterhouses) did not want to deal with the expense or time consumption of doing Niqur, as well as the convenience of just selling the hindquarters to the non-Jewish slaughterhouse. If someone who is certified and qualified in doing Niqur, one should not prevent them from doing so... If something is already prohibited by Jewish law, we don’t create a Minhag (custom) to “make a fence” to add to the prohibition."