Sentences with phrase «by pink slime»

Americans are repulsed by pink slime and would avoid it in droves if it were labeled.

Are you shocked by the pink slime videos that have been circulating?

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BPI alleges that ABC misled viewers by calling «lean finely textured beef» (LFTB) «pink slime.»

BPI sued ABC News, Inc. for defamation Thursday over its coverage of a meat product that critics dub «pink slime,» claiming the network damaged the company by misleading consumers into believing it is unhealthy and unsafe.

Before signing off, I wanted to share a few links related to yesterday's remarkably high - wattage press conference, arranged by BPI yesterday to defend its lean, finely textured beef, also known as «pink slime:»

The term «pink slime» was in fact initially coined by a U.S. Department of Agriculture official Moss met who had seen the «bright pink, aqueous» stuff in a plant.

Sept 13 (Reuters)- Walt Disney Co: * Abc news sued by beef products inc over alleged defamation in «pink slime» coverage * Abc news, a unit of Walt Disney Co says lawsuit is without merit, and that it will contest it vigorously

BPI claimed that ABC harmed its reputation and cost sales by mischaracterizing its «lean finely textured beef» as «pink slime» in reports aired in March and April 2012.

(Repeating story from earlier Monday) * Prices of lean beef trimmings soar * Meat processors race to find LFTB replacement * Loss of «pink slime» fuels imports of lean beef trimmings By Michael Hirtzer and P.J. Huffstutter WESTERN SPRINGS, Illinois, May 14 (Reuters)- Behind the glass meat counter at Casey's Market in a Chicago suburb, the butchers pick up their blades and carry on a generations - old tradition.

* Defamation lawsuit moves to South Dakota state court * Beef Products says ABC reports hurt reputation, sales * ABC News plans to seek dismissal of $ 1.2 billion lawsuit By Jonathan Stempel June 12 (Reuters)- A South Dakota meat processor that sued ABC News over a series of reports that called its signature product «pink slime» has won the right to move its $ 1.2 billion defamation and product disparagement lawsuit back to the state court where it began.

(Reuters)- ABC News has failed to persuade a South Dakota state judge to dismiss a $ 1.2 billion defamation lawsuit by a meat processor complaining about a series of reports that referred to its signature product as «pink slime.»

-LSB-...] has been such a public outcry against «pink slime,» (in part due to a graphic demonstration by Jamie Oliver on his Food Revolution show last summer) that fast food chains like McDonald's, Burger King -LSB-...]

* Republican governors watch automated production process * Say campaign against «pink slime» unwarranted scare SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb., March 29 (Reuters)- A maker of the hamburger filler branded by critics as «pink slime» on Thursday allowed three state governors supportive of the U.S. beef industry and a handful of journalists to see it being made for the first time since a controversy erupted over use of the meat scraps.

The outrage, which many experts say has been fueled by the term «pink slime,» seems more about the unsavoriness of the product rather than its safety.

* Q2 EPS 44 cents tops Wall St estimate of 39 cents / shr * Sales $ 8.27 bln miss analysts» estimate of $ 8.49 bln * Could still earn $ 2 per share in fiscal 2012 * Shares up 4 pct (Recasts, adds executive comments, updates share price) By Martinne Geller May 7 (Reuters)- Tyson Foods Inc's quarterly profit beat Wall Street estimates even after the controversy over so - called pink slime decimated U.S. beef demand, sending the meat processor's shares up 4 percent on Monday.

(Repeats for wider subscribers) * Beef Products Inc lawsuit sees $ 1.2 billion * Diane Sawyer, other individuals also sued * Lawsuit says ABC disparaged safety of a beef filler By Jonathan Stempel Sept 13 (Reuters)- ABC News was hit with a $ 1.2 billion defamation lawsuit on Thursday by a South Dakota meat processor that accused it of misleading viewers into believing that a product that critics have dubbed «pink slime» was unsafBy Jonathan Stempel Sept 13 (Reuters)- ABC News was hit with a $ 1.2 billion defamation lawsuit on Thursday by a South Dakota meat processor that accused it of misleading viewers into believing that a product that critics have dubbed «pink slime» was unsafby a South Dakota meat processor that accused it of misleading viewers into believing that a product that critics have dubbed «pink slime» was unsafe.

(Repeats for wider coding, story unchanged) SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb, March 30 (Reuters)- A maker of the hamburger filler branded by critics as «pink slime» on Thursday allowed three state governors supportive of the beef industry and a handful of journalists to see it being made for the first time since a controversy erupted over use of the meat scraps.

Lean finely textured beef, called «pink slime» by critics, is frozen on large drums as part of the manufacturing process at a plant in South Sioux City, Neb..

Other defendants include Gerald Zirnstein, a former U.S. Department of Agriculture microbiologist credited with coining the term «pink slime» in a 2002 email to colleagues later obtained by The New York Times.

Horribly enough pink slime has ended up on our children's school lunch trays, brought to highlight by The Lunch Tray blog.

* Defamation lawsuit moves to South Dakota state court * Beef Products says ABC reports hurt reputation, sales * ABC News plans to seek dismissal of $ 1.2 billion lawsuit By Jonathan Stempel June 12 (Reuters)- A South Dakota meat processor that sued ABC News over a series of reports that called its signature product «pink slime» has won the right to move its $ 1.2 billion defamation and product disparagement lawsuit back to the state court where it...

Predictably ABC News has hyped its reports by using the term «pink slime» 52 times in just a two - week span (making it harder than usual not to associate Avila's activist reporting with the word «slime» but that's another story.)

To demonstrate that consumers can trust food companies to do the right thing, the Times pointed to a recent announcement by Cargill that it will now label finely textured beef, aka «pink slime» in its ground beef products:

By Martha Graybow NEW YORK, Oct 31 (Reuters)- ABC News on Wednesday asked a federal court to throw out claims it defamed a meat processor through a series of television reports about lean finely textured beef, a product that critics have dubbed «pink slime.»

Food system advocates who have been alarmed by the unlabeled inclusion of «pink slime» in our ground beef also support a strong, safe food system.

I suppose my other posts can keep until this pink slime issue reaches a conclusion: ideally, of course, some meaningful action by USDA.

As you have probably heard by now, the food scandal «du jour» has to do with «pink slime», also known as mechanically - separated meat (or, when made by Beef Products Inc., «Boneless Beef Lean Trimmings»).

Its true that there has not been any proof that this pink slime is good for you either, but by that logic shouldnt everyone stop eating candy and soda?

The USDA and FDA and the meat industry are standing by the notion that pink slime beef trimmings are beef and not additives, so they do not need to be labeled and consumers do not need to be aware of what's really in the beef.

Here's a photo of Lean Textured Beef (aka «pink slime») that's been widely circulated in recent days by the product's manufacturer, Beef Products Inc..

(The term «pink slime» was coined in 2002 by Dr. Zirnstein in an internal email.)

There has been such a public outcry against «pink slime,» (in part due to a graphic demonstration by Jamie Oliver on his Food Revolution show last summer) that fast food chains like McDonald's, Burger King and Taco Bell have agreed to stop using it in their food.

As you know, our Change.org petition to get pink slime out of the beef provided by USDA for school meals led to a USDA change in policy within a mere nine days.

By now you have seen and heard about the outcry from parents and students around the country to ban «finely textured lean beef trimmings» or more commonly «pink slime» from school lunches.

I'm not Becky, but here is a direct quote from an earlier comment by Bettina: «Bill Marler, one of the nation's leading food safety lawyers, has publicly praised Beef Products Inc. (manufacturer of lean, finely textured beef, commonly known as «pink slime») for leading the industry with its advanced E. coli testing.

I find it both mildly disturbing and amusing that you think that the entire beef eating population, some of whom have died after eating pink slime by the way, should somehow feel bad for a handful of people who had no problem at all whatsoever pushing such a disgusting product onto an unsuspecting populace.

Back in July, many of you saw an Associated Press story which reported that «[s] everal food writers, including a New York Times reporter, have been subpoenaed by a meat producer as part of its $ 1.2 billion defamation lawsuit against ABC in regards to the network's coverage of a beef product dubbed «pink slime» by critics.»

If they truly believe in transparency and giving consumers choices and information about what's in their food in regards to pink slime, then they need to now apply that same reasoning of transparency and choice to GMOs, by allowing labeling that states that foods contain GMOs.

While my petition focused on the use of pink slime in school food, I feel strongly that the media firestorm we created and the overwhelming response to the petition was animated by another concern as well: many Americans were learning for the first time about this substance and the fact that it's in, reportedly, 70 % of our ground beef without any sort of labeling for those who wish to avoid it.

The Burger That Shattered Her Life — Stephanie Smith (The New York Times) watch the video 38 % was from Greater Omaha meat packing plant 37 % from Lone Star, a slaughterhouse in Texas 15 % from a processor in Uruguay 10 % from Beef Products International (PINK SLIME) A study done by R.P. Clayton and K.E. Belk in 1998 concluded that a single 4 - ounce ground beef patty was made from, on average, at least 55 different animals to, at most, an average of 1082 animals.

-LSB-...] enough pink slime has ended up on our children's school lunch trays, brought to highlight by The Lunch Tray blog.

For much of March and April, The Lunch Tray was dominated by the issue of «lean finely textured beef,» i.e., a beef filler made from heated and ammoniated slaughterhouse scraps and popularly referred to as «pink slime.»

On Tuesday futures tumbled the daily 3 - cent trading limit after news of the discovery of the disease in the carcass of a California dairy cow caused investors to bail out of a market already battered by demand fears after the consumer uproar over a filler beef known by critics as «pink slime.»

What if you have beef trimmings and residuals from a cattle which has been organically fed and certified and you treat this cattle's «organic» trimmings within a Organically certified facility (which obviously uses ammonium hydroxide), and since ammonium hydroxide is a by product and not an actual ingredient (according to our friends in USDA), it is very well possible that the meat labelled «USDA certified Organic» might also have the pink slime (or organic pink slime, if I am say).

But as a few readers informed me yesterday, that pink slime is actually mechanically separated chicken (the sort used in some nuggets) and not the beef by - product we've been talking about.

Sept 13 (Reuters)- Walt Disney Co: * Abc news sued by beef products inc over alleged defamation in «pink slime»

But David has since been informed by USDA that the agency is not purchasing slime itself, but instead purchasing ground beef from processors which use pink slime, and the entire ground beef purchase will collectively contain 7 million pounds of the substance.

If you want to eat pink slime, then by all means do so.

While I think many people like yourself try to rationalize and justify the use of pink slime, the «real crime» here is not that pink slime was developed but concealed and disguised by a federal department.

As many of you know, in March, 2012 I launched on The Lunch Tray a Change.org petition seeking to remove lean, finely textured beef («LFTB,» more widely known as «pink slime») from the ground beef procured by the USDA for the National School Lunch Program.