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@Sadugare Rebbe
I knew the ‘original’ Rabbi Levy “OBM” who founded OK Labs. He was from my home town of New Haven. He explained to me back in 1978 (when he came to our bakery in Hamden, CT to supervise a run of frozen Challah) that the Rebbe wanted all Jews to eat kosher. The Rebbe did not feel it was neccessary to extend Chabad chumras to the masses. Thus, they could supervise milchige cholav stam cookies that ordinary Jews would buy instead of then treif Oreos at the same price points in the general supermarkets.
Similarly, in those days, before the Agriprocessors, local kosher meat production was mostly of non-glatt meat. Many a local rabbi who only ate glatt in his own home supervised local butcher, caterers, delis that sold ordinary kosher meat. The fact that it wasn’t glatt didn’t make it not-kosher.