Producer of ‘Pink Slime’ Textured Beef Suing ABC and ABC News

Tim Carman
Washington Post
September 15, 2012

Of all the media outlets that have taken shots at Beef Products and its “lean, finely textured beef,” the South Dakota-based company apparently feels slimed by only one: ABC and its ABC News division.

The largest U.S. producer of “pink slime” — once widely found in fast-food burgers, supermarkets and the federal school lunch program — filed a defamation lawsuit Thursday against the network, claiming it went on a campaign that cost Beef Products $400 million. Anchor Diane Sawyer and reporters Jim Avila and David Kerley are also named as defendants.

[...] “They hate this product now,” [Beef Products Inc. lawyer Dan] Webb said about customers. “ABC has managed to convince the American consumer that we’re selling some filthy product that is somehow hidden away in ground beef.”

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This article was posted: Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 12:29 pm

Tags: domestic news, food, health, mainstream media

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