All that said, I think the grievance brought up here about products advertised as non-dairy is totally legitimate. Hechshers aren’t provided for non-pareve sandwich bread lest it be eaten with meat. If there’s a concern that people will assume bread to be pareve without regard for the hechsher, how much more so for products that explicitly claim to be non-dairy?
We pasken that that din is only relevant to bread. Don’t make up new gezeiros.
I explained why it’s not a legitmate chashash; you need to check for a hechsher.
Also, most of these products are dairy, and I’m not a fan (see my previous posts) of turning your brain off and blaming the OU.
If you want to cross out the worse NON DAIRY with a Sharpie as soon as you get home, go right ahead.
The words NON DAIRY are government mandated, so the OU can’t tell them to take it off, so I don’t blame them for certifying it.