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The Great Media Debacle of 2012: Lean Finely Textured Beef One Year Later

By: Janet Riley One year ago this week, all of us witnessed one of the greatest injustices to truth we could have imagined.  I’m talking about the month long frenzy over lean finely textured beef (LFTB). ABC’s Senior Correspondent Jim Avila began reporting in a way that we could not have imagined or predicted.  All totaled, [...]

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Big Beef’s Big Beef May Be Legit

By Jack Fowler September 20, 2012 I’ve written here about ABC News’ jihad against “lean finely textured beef,” notoriously dubbed “pink slime” by the network’s scandal-mongers. Their scare campaign led to a massive fall-off in sales of LFTB, which cost hundreds of people their jobs. Beef Products Inc. has fought back with a big defamation [...]

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Meat company sues ABC News for defamation over ‘pink slime’

Beef Products Inc., a South Dakota meat company whose lean, finely textured beef product was dubbed ”pink slime” this year, has sued ABC News for defamation and is seeking $1.2 billion in damages. The company, which after the controversy closed three of its four plants and laid off 700 workers, filed suit in state court in Elk Point, [...]

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