[noduerme]

I believe McDonald's does have their own pipelines for various ingredients, including beef, in countries where it's necessary for uniformity, outside the US. I'd have to assume they've looked at the numbers and determined that having their own potato to french fry pipeline would not shave enough cost off a happy meal to lure enough customers from their competitors to make it worthwhile. Shattering the cartel might not be in their interest.

[lupusreal]

McDonalds doing those things in other countries doesn't necessarily show that the parts of their organization responsible for their US operations are competent enough to do the same. Assuming that whatever the corporation is doing presently must be the result of careful rational economic analysis seems like a fallacy of some sort. Just world fallacy? Optimally Run Corporation fallacy.

[noduerme]

Upvoted, and I wish I could upvote you twice. Because I did commit a logical fallacy. I can't assume that a decision was made wisely, or informedly, just because it was made by a giant organization with information we're not privy to. People in such organizations are just as incompetent as everyone else.

[Over2Chars]

Just because you (think you) committed a logical fallacy doesn't mean you're wrong.

You can do, or think, the right things for the wrong reasons, even illogical ones.