Sadly most places aren’t doing anything worth writing home about, but if this family actually cares then you’re very right and they need to learn exactly how the new ingredient will work in their kitchen.

In my experience bromated flour makes dough that I don’t like at all, so I’ll be glad when that’s gone.

I recall that it was cathouses in Columbia

It’s not entirely outsourced by any means. There is a lot of it. The article is discussing one department that was outsourced, many others are not.

Regarding running their own Linux distro, that probably would be neither cheap or really helpful (which of their vendors would support that vs. some other distro in practice?) but yes, there is a sizeable IT footprint required for such a large place.