This conversation was about kashrus and yiras shamayim, not marketing. If it's about marketing then I'm out. I thought we're real people here
You must have gotten lost in the מהלך of the סוגיא, so let me give you the executive summary, filtering out most of the noise.
It started with someone who, in
total contradiction to his DDF username, didn't know much about Teva meat and asked about the Hashgocho other than the OU on it.
When questioned as to what he found wrong with the OU, he responded that
he trusts them only for pareve food items.
מתקיף לה
@shaulyaakov with a blanket statement
Most of the time the 2nd hechsher to the OU just sends someone twice a year to pickup the check.
which I
questioned as to whether it might have any veracity in the case of Shechita.
To that a plainbachur responded with another blanket statement, without any backup, claiming that the
OU doesn't rely on others, and singing their praises.
I poured cold water on both
@shaulyaakov and
@plainbachur, making a distinction between three types of Kashrus supervision, and claiming that I find it highly doubtful that when it comes to Shechita, the OU is ever primary (with the possible exception of an operation as large as Empire, or one that targets a different kind of consumer).
From there a lot of irrelevant noise ensued, making various pilpulim and diyukim in what I wrote or meant, as well as straying off topic into the question of what Chassidishe shechita might mean. But after everything was said and done, no one credibly refuted my statement about the fact that when it comes to Shechita, the OU is almost never the primary Hashgocho. And the reason for that is a marketing reason - that the consumers that consider themselves more scrupulous, are more likely to seek hashgochos other than the OU for shechita.
And now let me ask you a direct question, to possibly prove my point. Let's create a hypothetical scenario, where there would be a group of people that would go to settle or live in the Falklands for a period of time. Everything as far as kosher food could be brought in from the outside, but Shechita would have to be done locally. Furthermore, there seem to be a high percentage of Glatt בהמות there, and the meat is of high quality, and can be exported to the US for the Lakewood, Boro-Park, Williamsburg, etc. markets, providing good financial support for the newly established "Charedi" settlement. And lets assume that this was in close proximity to, or even part of, the US, and you would be the one in charge of arranging the Glatt Kosher shechita there. Would you reach out to the OU to provide the Shochtim, and everything else required for that, or would you reach out elsewhere to arrange that?
And as far as
this, please post the link.