Beef Is Beef

Philip M. Boffey of the New York Times highlights how the “pink slime” moniker and copious media attention have done unfair damage to workers and to LFTB. Boffey writes: The first casualties of the hamburger ingredient contemptuously dubbed “pink slime” will likely not be anyone who eats it but rather the workers who make it. Beef Products [...]

Holman W. Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal examines how the media created a phony controversy over lean finely textured beef.  Mr. Jenkins champions the creation of “product defamation” laws which would raise the stakes of respectable reporting. Read more of Mr. Jenkins opinion.

By Jacob Heller Sep 17, 2012 DAKOTA DUNES, SD – It’s been less than a week since Beef Products, Incorporated launched a lawsuit against ABC News for more than one billion dollars. “Thirty years to build a business and 30 days to take it down,” said Nick Roth, Director of Engineering for Beef Products, Inc. Nick, [...]