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proverbialwisdom

(4,959 posts) Fri Sep 14, 2012, 03:56 PM Sep 2012

ABC News Sued for $1.2 Billion Over Report on 'Pink Slime'

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/abc-news-sued-pink-slime-370126

ABC News Sued for $1.2 Billion Over Report on 'Pink Slime'

10:48 AM PDT 9/13/2012
by Eriq Gardner

Beef manufacturer claims defamation in March report that led to consumer uprising against a processed beef product.

ABC has been hit with a $1.2 billion lawsuit over "pink slime."

Beef Products Inc., a South Dakota-based boneless-lean-beef giant, has sued the network as well as news anchor Diane Sawyer and several correspondents for news reports that allegedly have caused the company harm.

Until March, much of the ground beef in supermarkets, many restaurants and school lunches used a meat product some have called "pink slime," which includes the use of fillers and trimmings, plus ammonia to kill bacteria. Then, ABC featured it, leading to a big consumer backlash

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The lawsuit also targets Gerald Zirnstein, the USDA microbiologist who came up with the term "pink slime" and gave an interview to ABC.

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ABC News Sued for $1.2 Billion Over Report on 'Pink Slime' (Original Post) proverbialwisdom Sep 2012 OP

my recollection was that it merely complained about the lack of labeling unblock Sep 2012 #1

It was disgusting and I don't think the Ilsa Sep 2012 #2

Not that I love ABC but Politicalboi Sep 2012 #3

Ground beef is a lot better now Freddie Sep 2012 #4

unblock

(52,243 posts)

1. my recollection was that it merely complained about the lack of labeling

Reply to proverbialwisdom (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 04:06 PM

Sep 2012

the general grossness of it.

i don't recall anything one would consider actionable.

the biggest beef (groan) they had with it was that people were getting "fillters and trimmings" and random beef bits but it was still labeled as sirloin or rib eye or whatever.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)

2. It was disgusting and I don't think the

Reply to proverbialwisdom (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 04:14 PM

Sep 2012

Ag producer will get much sympathy. People don't want fillers and ammonia in their food. If they had called it "pink heaven" in the report, I think the public would still have rejected the product after seeing it.

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)

3. Not that I love ABC but

Reply to proverbialwisdom (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 04:24 PM

Sep 2012

This is a good time to boycott meat. They dare sue the ones who exposed the "pink slime". Don't we the people need someone looking out for us? We can decide to eat meat with slime in it or not, but they should have labeled it as such. What's next, fracking companies suing the average Joe for telling their water caught fire?

Freddie

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4. Ground beef is a lot better now

Reply to proverbialwisdom (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 04:53 PM

Sep 2012

Since my store stopped using pink slime. Easier to break apart to make meatloaf and I don't have that disgusting film on my hands (impossible to wash off) after handling it.
Good for ABC! I don't care that the stuff is safe, til recently it was a main ingredient in dog food and I don't want it for me or my family.

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