Mod – “I’m pretty sure no one changed your wording. Go ahead and restate it.”
Actually, it was changed, but I don’t want to get into that now nor am I going to restate. This topic has been discussed in depth previously in the CR.
But the big thing today is perceptions. Many products don’t need hashgacha, but once you have a hashgacha on a product; ipso facto the same product without hashgacha is considered treif in the consumer world, but not in the hashgacha world. There are people who will only use heimeshe hashgachos and put down the OU as not being a good hashgacha. But heimeshe hashgachos do rely on the OU for many of their hashgachas.