McDonald's sues top meat packers for allegedly colluding to inflate the price of beef

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16. McDonald's

This is possibly not exactly what it seems,, Quite a while ago like about 25 years or so the then CEO of McDonald's was going to lead the crusade against hot branding of beef cattle in the U S . "We are one of the largest buyers of beef in the country' you bet we have some influence in the matter'' I cannot quote him word for word now but that was what he inferred at the time. It turned out however that Mickey Ds had to pull their horns in and back off since at that time it turned out that while they may have been one of the largest buyers around it was almost all played out DAIRY COW meat that they used, not beef cow meat, Two entirely separate, and for the most part unconnected industries. Dairy cattle are not branded like beef cattle are and they bought almost no actual beef cattle then so their influence in this issue was almost totally nonexistent. Packers handle both types of cattle and maybe they could get some positive outcome for consumers on both ends, however being creatures of the corporate world I would not be surprised in the end if they don't just try to get a sweet deal for themselves by being a money backed squeaky wheel and to hell with the rest of the world