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$1.2 Billion in Damages: Company Goes After Diane Sawyer In ‘One Of the Most High-Stakes Defamation Court Battles In History’
The country let out a collective “Gross!” last year after details and images of “lean finely textured beef” (i.e. “pink slime”) started to make their way into nightly news reports.
Don’t tell us you don’t remember this:
Associated Press
And although America’s negative reaction to the images seems reasonable, the extremely unfortunate downside to this story has been the loss of jobs and revenues at Beef Products Inc., the company that produces the meat product.
“[T]he South Dakota company’s revenues have plummeted from more than $650 million to about $130 million a year, and three of its plants are shuttered,” according to a recent Reuters report.
And all of this after the product was in widespread use. It’s not like it was new thing; we just hadn’t seen it in production before.
So perhaps it’s not that surprising that BPI officials blame the loss of jobs and revenues on the ABC News program that popularized the term “pink slime,” meaning they are looking directly at this woman:
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“BPI hired a high-powered Chicago trial lawyer and in September slapped the network, star anchor Diane Sawyer and other defendants with a 27-count lawsuit that seeks at least $1.2 billion in damages – about one-fifth of the fiscal 2012 net income of American Broadcasting Co parent Walt Disney Co.,” Reuters notes
“Now, the case, which many observers initially wrote off as a public relations ploy by a desperate company, is shaping up as one of the most high-stakes defamation court battles in U.S. history,” the report adds.
In short, BPI is dead serious about its lawsuit and they’re coming after ABC and Diane Sawyer.
“The court fight could put modern television journalism on trial and highlight the power of language in the Internet Age,” Reuters notes.
Indeed, as mentioned in the above, it was after her use of “pink slime” that the term caught on and went viral.
Reuters continues:
Libel cases are extremely difficult to win in the U.S. because of strong press protections, and ABC has compelling legal arguments. However interviews with BPI’s founders, agriculture industry officials and legal experts, as well as a review of federal documents and court records, suggest that ABC’s reports had certain flaws that could resonate with a jury: ABC’s lead reporter on the story mischaracterized BPI’s product on Twitter; the network failed to clearly describe on-air how the company’s beef wound up in the nation’s food supply; and ABC did not reveal in an interview with a former BPI employee that he had lost a wrongful termination lawsuit against the company.
“ABC denies the allegations in the lawsuit and is seeking to have it thrown out. The network and its lawyers at Washington D.C. law firm Williams & Connolly declined to comment on the case,” the report continues.
“In court papers, the network argues that the lawsuit is a bid by BPI to chill media coverage of the food industry,” it adds.
Of course, a drawn out legal case could put an unfavorably spotlight on BPI’s closely-guarded manufacturing processes. Still, BPI founders Eldon and Regina Roth say they’re willing to spend whatever it takes to go after ABC.
“We have to do this,” Eldon Roth told Reuters. “We have no other choice.”
The report continues:
For BPI to prove the defamation piece of its case, it would need to show that the network negligently reported a false statement of fact that injured its reputation. If BPI is deemed by the court to be a public rather than a private figure in the legal sense, it would have a higher bar to cross: The company would need to prove ABC knew the facts it was reporting were false or it recklessly disregarded the truth.
While the case is in the early stages, the network appears to have a legal leg-up on both counts: ABC never said BPI’s product is dangerous, and courts have repeatedly offered broad protections for journalists in the course of their work.
But by calling a food product “slime” 137 times over the span of nearly four weeks on its newscasts, its website and on Twitter, according to BPI’s tally, did ABC make the public think LFTB was unsafe? If, as BPI alleges, ABC shrugged off information that refuted parts of its reporting, did it act recklessly and could it therefore be held liable for defamation?
“It’s hard to imagine ‘slime’ being a positive term, but at the same time, was it used with malice?” Gene Policinski, senior vice president and executive director of the First Amendment Center at the Freedom Forum, told Reuters. “This is going to be a very tough thing for BPI to prove.”
Click here to read the full Reuters report.
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huey6367
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:34pmMaybe Sawyer will take this as a hint to retire. She is old news on so many levels.
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americanfirst
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:06pmLove to be part of that jury “of peers”. If I am in… SHE’S GUILTY YA AWNUH!!
NO…GEEL-TAYE!!!
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Salamander
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:32pmMaybe an alternate remedy would be for Diane Sawyer to be sentenced to eating ‘pink slime’ sandwiches for a year! I wonder if she’s ever eaten kidneys (they are delicious if they are cleaned right–mmmmmm, brandy-mustard sauce!). What does she think is in a hot dog? How about the casing for her ‘organic sausage’? Surely, she knows where eggs come from? Ah, Jello? (boiled horse hoof!) Ox tail soup! I’m SURE the ox didn’t make it through his/her life without a bit of an upset tummy at least once or twice! Asian rice (grown in ‘fresh organic’ of course)! Hmmmm, I wonder what that little ‘vein’ is in shrimp? Maybe she should take a look at bread and cereal, to see how many insect parts and rat ‘freecheese’ make its way into her packaging? Oh, well! I’m sure she’d prefer to pay $1 or two more for her hamburger and have all the waste put into the nearest landfill, rather than have it scoured off the carcass and all that protein put back into her hamburger!
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4xeverything
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:33pmNot only is she old news but she’s drunk news too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=T_dM-IvMBS8
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Exrepublisheep
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:38pmIs it Dianes’ story or did she just read it?
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horsehockey
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:19pmSawyer’s a has-been media whore/slut, I hope BPI wins bigtime, treble damages.
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JRook
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:19pmOf course the key defense point will be that probably 90% of the individuals in the company call it pink slim, as did probably 90% of the customers. I have no sympathy for members of the industry food industry. What they put in food and how they represent it is criminal. How’s about they show all the wonderful stuff that goes into this space age food product.
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RabidPatriot
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:47pmIs there an outcome that would put BPI and ABC News out of business? The product that they both put out is disgusting. All that being said, BPI will not make one penny on this lawsuit.
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chips1
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:50pm“Pink Slime”? Who ya gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS
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ambrosia
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:23pmIt’s all relevant.
The red slime, communist network
would just naturally refer to others as slime in coordinated colors.
What’s more amusing than a corporate slaughterhouse suing a corporate mouse
is the way Sawyer ***** her befuddled muppet head
and ends every one of her “stories” with a question mark ?
? ? ? ? ? ?….ya’ know….kinda’ like Andy Rooney…..kinda’ like not ?
It used to be true “JOURNALISTS” never lifted an eyebrow,
never acted like morons-
that was the steadfast sign of professionalism.
One would never be able to tell which way they voted or swung-
now, their misguided attitude & lack of integrity
tell us all about them…..all we NEVER cared to know.
Isn’t that right, Ms. Sawyer ? ? ?
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jorskippy
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:30pmTake her lying liberal self down….hope she has to pay dearly….
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Mil-Dot
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:43pmI just read this article on LFTB and it was amazing. There is NOTHING wrong with this product. Diane Sawyer and ABC are going to lose this one. I was convinced in 15 minutes. Unless you are a dumb ass, you too will agree.
http://www.beefisbeef.com/faq-3/
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turkey13
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:28pmRich gal like this doesn’t ever go to Wal-Mart like the rest of the poor folks and buy that no name pink meat that you wonder whar it is. The label says, “Hamburger, roast duck and mountain oysters. Some isn’t fit to feed the cat. I hope she has to cash in her 401K plan.
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ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:29pmHoly Crap Mil-DOT….. you’re freaking spot on. I never saw the actual trash put out by ABC, I stopped watching all television when the converter boxes became necessary to watch terrestrial trash TV. Haven’t bought another TV yet either….LOL. Though I suppose at some point I will. Anyway, I think you’re right … THEY HAVE A LEGIT CASE…. about time someone took the commies in the media to task through the courts. This is gonna be sweet. There’s nothing wrong with it contrary to what some people think. Thanks for posting the link.
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TaterSalad
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:56pmI hope this company wins the suit. Diane Sawyer is a left wing smear merchant hell bent on bringing socialism to America and protecting Barack Obama at all costs.
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JohnofOregon
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 8:58pm@meteors
You liberals must really think we are dumb. As someone who has actually inspected numerous facilities and processing I have a little news for you. Meat processing is the cleanest facility along with brewing equipment. Field packed veggies are actually dangerous but processed are sterilized.
The worst food handling you’ll ever see is grains. That is where you see the federal governments official rules on “organic content”. In some natural applications it is 1 percent. That’s when there is movement in the flour.
You know, if you guys on the liberal side weren’t a bunch of trust fund babies and parasites, you would have had a real job at some time growing up and know these things.
Second thing that most Americans don’t know is that very little inspection is done by Feds. It is state agriculture, county health and industry certification that inspect facilities. The only thing Feds inspect are stock yards on the hoof, not the processing.
In fact, they will not inspect that medical pot you have been smoking.
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Al J Zira
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:02pmIt doesn’t matter now that the sequestration has caused the FDA the layoff so many meat inspectors. Packers could use the slime gun from Ghost Busters if they want, now.
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Locked
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:25pmSeems like a lot of people didn’t bother to read the article. It clearly states:
“While the case is in the early stages, the network appears to have a legal leg-up on both counts: ABC never said BPI’s product is dangerous, and courts have repeatedly offered broad protections for journalists in the course of their work.”
They never said the product is dangerous, and it DOES look like pink slime.
I have no stake in either company, but gosh, if your product gets negative PR, shouldn’t your first response be “how can we better represent it?” instead “run to our lawyers and use the courts to shut up our critics”?
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ashestoashes
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:37pmSo I am guessing that you guys also support GMO foods..the ones which have had their DNA altered and blended with insects…and humans..and plants being grown with roundup right inside them..no need to wash them off..you can eat your poison..and having a protein similar to ours but not like ours..grows in the the consumer’s intestines exponentially..even when the product has ceased to be consumed..and is suspected of causing cancer..alzhimers and autoimmune diseases..France found a link between them and massive tumors and called for a world wide ban on them..but the banks are the biggest investors..and there are a great number of Federal Representatives involved like Judge Clarence Thomas and Donald Rumsfeld..Monsanto..the insecticide company is I believe the largest producer of GMOs and the attorney who represented them now works in the FDA.. But that’s okay..America loves its poison..What’s funny is that someone on the left..tries to do the citizens a favor..and they get slammed just because they are on the left..My my my..hatred runs deep doesn’t it? People stick to their guns even at their own demise..
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sillyfreshness
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:58pmI hope ABC goes down in flames and takes old puppy dog eyes with it.
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NHwinter
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:03pmashestoashes
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:37pm
So I am guessing that you guys also support GMO foods
No, most of us really don’t support GMO foods. I think we are well aware of the danger they are to our health and the future of heirloom vegetables. You are not the only self proclaimed informed person on this site.
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nachodadi
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:20pmDiane Sawhead needs to go for sure…..she’s a old bag with old bag……enough said.
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marssnw
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:00amIts going to boil down to who the judge is. If it is a liberal judge, ABC will win. If it is a Conservative Judge, it could go either way. I hope Sawer and ABC lose their “Shirt” on this case. Could not happen to better people.
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jman-6
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 1:03amThe worst part of this whole thing irespective of the court case is the loss of real jobs to real people! The other sad thing is this was picked up by ABC from a bogus story put out by an eco-terrorist group along the same lines as the false story by the Ford Foundation’s eco-terrorist wing about DDT killing all the Bald Eagles eggs and other nonsense!
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ashestoashes
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 8:36am@NH..Well thank you NH for enlightening me..lol…Yes I know that there are informed people on this site. And most I assume would know I am not talking to them…but if you notice..not many are speaking out against the pink slime..We all need to take a stand about everything that they are pushing down the American throats in the name of greed..JR ROOK summed it up nicely..Locked and Al J ZiRA did a nice job also..Ambrosia was mistrusting of a Liberal Rep taking a stand against a liberal agenda. Pink Slime.. a mixture of waste meat and fatty parts from higher-quality cuts of beef that have had the fat mechanically removed. Afterwards, it’s treated with ammonia gas to kill Salmonella and E. coli bacteria. Then it gets added to ground beef as a filler. Food microbiologists and meat producers insist that it’s safe,The product does not meet the legal requirements for sale in the United Kingdom,[32] and the European Union has banned it and other mechanically-separated meats for human consumption It was previously used for dog food. Sorry I struck a nerve NH..but if it doesn’t fit you..then please don’t take it personally..
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Charleyhorse
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 8:38amSpankdamonkey, ihad to change shirt after laughing with a mouthful of coffee at your comment.
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GETLIFE
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 8:46amWell, BLAZE, I am trying to keep an open mind about why you decided to CHANGE the first picture up there from the slimy pink slime snaking out of the production machine (for which there are no better words to describe the product than “pink slime”)– to the much more “acceptable” photo of what could just be frozen ground beef…..
Now I happen to know that no one embodies the reality of “narcissistic airhead who couldn’t write her own copy if her life depended on it” better than Diane Sawyer. I would love to see her go down for any reason whatsoever, but I doubt she will get into trouble over this. TheBLAZE obviously doubts it also, or they would not have changed the photo they put up when they first put out this story. That more honest photo shows what is evidently an earlier stage of production, before they camouflage the pink sliminess of the stuff. “Pink slime” caught on for a reason. It is what it is.
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TonyRUS
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 8:55amCorrect, Mil-Dot. If it is made with proper FDA methods and safety, which has never been alleged that it is not, then there is nothing wrong with this product. If what they grind up into it disgusts you, but you love hotdogs and sausage, then you’re seriously confused. If those too are disgusting to you, then you’re disqualified from having an opinion on this case because you have a high yuck factor to start with.
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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 9:04amIt’s time to sue the living **** outta the democrat tabloid news channels, I’d send $10 to a fund to cover the lawyers. it’s time for democrats to have some skin in the game, time to kick em in the balls (you didn’t know Diane had balls LMAO)
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monitor
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:08amWasn’t she apart of the Food Lion defamation years ago?
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Bum thrower
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:49amI hope they stick it so deeeeep in them that they gag!!
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ChildOfTheKing
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:10pmNow, if we could just do this to THIS PRESIDENT AND HIS ADMINISTRATION. Afterall, isn’t Obama going against the U.S. Constitution at every turn??????????
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ChildOfTheKing
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:13pm@Exrepublisheep:
It does not matter. SHE IS RESPONSIBLE BECAUSE SHE DID OR DID NOT VET THE INFORMATION. She will get the brunt of the fallout. He station will fire her and she will take the fall. NETWORKS ARE TOO BIG TO FAIL.
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3-Blue
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:25pmSendTheMeteors: What a wonderful life you have. Spend all day stating the obvious but with deception while you don’t even believe yourself. Yes, it is that obvious. That’s hard to pull off. You don’t quite make it however. How depressing for you as you drone on and on. Your employers (masters?) are very appreciative, right? Your tombstone will read; “He wasted his life fighting an imaginary foe while all the while it was the enemy from within he didn’t see that got him”…
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LIBERTARIAN T38
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:47pmMeteors, you know all about poop, especially little boys’…you freakin’ NAMBLA members disgust me.
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topperj
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 1:33pmIt’s long past the time for these muckrakers to pay for their dishonest reporting. Whether it’s NBC setting cars on fire or editing tape, or Sawyer and her network creating a crisis out of whole cloth, let’s sue them into oblivion. I’m not one who usually favors lawsuits, but these irresponsible network hacks have to pay for their ruinous ways. A pox upon ALL their houses.
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welovetheUSA
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:32pmSpreading lies and destroying a business deserves its day in court…..the media needs more of this, lies are all too common now with their king in the white house.
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VanceUppercut
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:57pm@welovetheUSA
Yes, let’s support a company that (allegedly) puts unspeakable crap into our food so that people can (allegedly) squeeze a few more pennies of profit out of the (allegedly) crappy food they serve us. Allegedly.
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JoanofAmerica
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:00pmLet justice be served.
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PoliticallyRightUs.Com
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:01pmNow if we can many other news outlets in court like MSLSD (MSNBC), CBS, NBC, ABC and the list goes on…
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searcher619
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:03pmVanceUppercut:
Please quit spreading the stupid. Please show us how it’s harmful to us in ANY way. You do get that ammonium hydroxide is in wide use right? Has been for a long time. So please enlighten us with what you “know” vs what people who have actually RESEARCHED this have already said about it.
http://junkscience.com/2012/03/22/rob-lyons-lies-damned-lies-and-pink-slime/
http://radio.foxnews.com/2012/03/29/please-educate-yourself-on-ammonium-hydroxide-before-you-scream-over-pink-slime/
Your ignorance is astounding.
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PoliticallyRightUs.Com
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:12pm@VanceUppercut I agree let’s give them their day in court isn’t that what America is about???
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AvengerK
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:16pmBy all means VANCYDORAGASBAG……eat your tofu and shut up.
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Stoptheblather
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:17pmYes, too bad we can’t sue ‘the media’ for their lies and omissions.
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truthnstuff
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:26pmIt is about time the media were held accountable for misguided reporting. They are so used to it, no wonder they lie and obfuscate for the regime.
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Salamander
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:34pmMaybe WE should sue CONGRESS as they outlawed the incandescent 100Watt light bulb based on erroneous information! I’d bet that lawsuit would be worth more than the pink slime litigation!
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65Mustang
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:37pmVANCEUPPERCUT: If Diane Sawyer and other members of the pathetic Main Stream Media had done their job, we wouldn’t be with dealing Obama, the POS, and his corrupt administration that you are in the tank for. I hope ABC and the Hag lose their butts in this lawsuit.
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whatcrap53
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:40pmShe is an obama whore, I’m sure this POS POTUS will go after the company that is sueing her!
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Verceofreason
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:52pmWhat lies?
Does that pic look like a steak or even ground beef at the supermarket.?
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bburns
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:57pmI agree that there are MANY lies in the media these days, which is why I don’t watch mainstream media news. But I, for one, was GLAD that this pink goo was exposed. Our food in this country is killing us. I’m not a tofu eater, but man we need to get back to REAL food…not processed food with steroids & antibiotics added. Girls are developing at a FAR younger age these days…no doubt due to growth hormones in our foods. The food industry gets away with WAY too much behind the curtains…we should KNOW how our food is made — including terrible slaughter houses (& yes, I love beef & pork, but the slaughter of these should be humane — & everything that’s added to our foods to increase profits for the sellers.
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PutGodBackInAmerica
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:03pmVance you are proof that ABC should lose.
There is nothing unspeakable going into the fictional product called “Pink Slime”. You would generally call the product lean ground beef which is all it is. It does NOT have anything unspeakable in it just Chuck and other cuts of Beef with the fat removed. You know what healthy Americans want. I love the Lean Ground Beef I get from Sams Club. That is what ABC referred to as “Pink Slime”. What they showed was the fat that was removed but that is not used in any product you would buy at a store other than perhaps Dog Food.
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Eastinfection
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:10pmVERCE…
this product is an additive to ground beef.
many of the 98% lean ground beef in the supermarket is 25% pink slime- never more than that.
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Verceofreason
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:58pmWhat lies?
What do YOU think is in that goo.
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VanceUppercut
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 8:18pm@Stoptheblather
Actually, it was a Fox affiliate that won a case in court giving them permission to KNOWINGLY lie to the public.
“Jane Akre and her husband Steve Wilson are former employees of Fox owned-and-operated station WTVT in Tampa, Florida. In 1997, they were fired from the station after refusing to knowingly include false information in their report concerning the Monsanto Company’s production of RBGH, a drug designed to make cows produce more milk. They successfully sued under Florida’s whistle blower law and were awarded a US $425,000 settlement by jury decision. However, Fox appealed to an appellate court and won, after the court declared that the FCC policy against falsification that Fox violated was just a policy and not a “law, rule, or regulation”, and so the whistle blower law did not apply.”
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sta
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 8:27pmVerceofreason – It’s what the butcher adds to ground meat. Hellsbells, did you ever eat a hot dog? Look at the inside. It looks EXACTLY the same. People like my family, who don’t have an EBT card to pay for our Chicken Voila, don’t mind at all if they take the small, unsellable pieces of beef, grind them up and add them to our “Ground Beef”. It’s good and it feeds us well.
Kind of reminds me of what my Old Polish Baba called “Head Cheese”. Yum!
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RedDirtTexas
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:49amTypical liberal conflicting agendas here. They always claim to be for science and progress and finding ways for everyone to live forever ( except for unborn children of course ) and reducing CO2 to save the planet from global warming. An industry finds a way to get more lean beef per evil cow fart and they want to shut it down. I suppose anti-capitalism trumps the science god worshipers and the tree huggers!
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Chuck Stein
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:04amThey do not want to be in federal court — UNANIMOUS verdict needed to recover in a civil case.
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hades3
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:31pmGonzo,
That’s not a worried look on her face, she is suffering gas pains, from reading the editors garbage on the teleprompter.
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gyro
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:11pmyes — just read it defence that works so well for obama
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taxpro4u03
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:23pmThere’s NO DUTY to report the ‘truth…’ “News” has been adjudicated to be ‘entertainment –’ — Seems to me this falls under the Fairness Doctrine (where corp usa and her subsidiaries are concerned which INCLUDES the corporate ‘persons’ (Diane Sawyer, as an AGENT – is also a 14th article of amendment corp SUBJECT/Citizen) — can spew any line of crap they CHOOSE — If memory serves, Michael Powell was head of the FCC (son of one RINO Colin Powell) at the time the FoxNews lawsuit made the ruling — http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html
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HOOT_OWL
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:29pmHeadlines:
Makers of Pink-slime suing Pink-Slime
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tonypro
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:40pmMakers of pink slime, suing stink slime.
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Verceofreason
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:57pmWrongo, To another post.
There is NO PINK SLIME added to the chopped meat in supermarket. NONE.
It’s all hidden in prepared food like, say, HORSEMEAT is.
The meat types in chopped meat have to, by law, be listed on the label
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sta
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 8:31pmYes it IS what is added to ground meat at the supermarket. That is why the Kroger stores pulled all their rolls of “Ground beef”. You know, those one pound packages that one cannot see the inside and it shrinks in the pan.
THAT is what it is added to.
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OldSurfRat
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:27pmDiane will report on pink slime but she will not report the black slime covering the floors of the white house.
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tonypro
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:39pmRight.
I’m bettin this is settled out of court, out of public eye, with a non-disclosure agreement. After all, we can’t have the propagandist looking bad.
Don’t think for one second that the other propaganda co.s, and mouths won’t be trying to help bury this quietly. They still think people actually watch their lies, and really care.
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yiska8
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:39pmHa! Good burn!
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:41pmLOL OLDSURFRAT, watch for a soon to come overreaction to that statement.
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kettererbg
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:57pmDiane will talk about pink slime, but won’t talk about the 10 billion bequerels an hour of radioactive particles that comes out of Fukushima., or the radiation from Fukushima that is pouring into the Pacific daily. And what about the 67 tanks at Hanford leaking radioactive material. What about DHS buying up ammo and 2700 armored vehicles for use in America.
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tonypro
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:03pm@RJJinGadsden
OK you asked for, so here goes.
I am Outraged that she won’t report on the black slime in the White House !!!!!!!!!
Sorry, best I can do. :-)
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OldSurfRat
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:21pmThanks RJJ
I’m good.
Let them take their shots and then I will let them know how I supported Herman Caine and think Condi Rice is one of the smartest people to ever set foot in DC.
But hey what does a racist like me know (:
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OldSurfRat
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:22pmTony
LOL. Dont worry that was the best I had too.
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truthnstuff
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:29pmRoFL!
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MajorMolly
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:28pmDiane needs to retire. She thinks she does serious reporting because she does it with a concerned look on her face.
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Kisses6350
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 3:13pmBlack slime? Hell Pink Slime been in the White House since it opened! ****SMIRKS*****
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hades3
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:27pmAt this point time, with the public’s opinion of the news media, If I were Disney, I would not be too optimistic when it comes to seating a favorable jury. I would not be surprised, if a settlement is not reached looong before this case ever gets in front of a jury.
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hades3
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:23pmRemember what CBS’ false story on Alar did too apple producers ? How about NBC rigging a Chevrolet pickup to explode when broad sided, for dramatic effect, which alleged that that particular vehicle would endanger liven in a collision. In both instances, the producers shrugged, and more or less said to themselves, “easy come easy go”. Onward too the next ratings competition. So sue us, and try too prove we did what we did with malice !
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ladyjk
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:03pmThe network will perhaps fight this case as they will get much needed publicity and probably more viewers than they have ever had. This network has hardly any viewers any way, small potatoes especially with Sawyer on the network.
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FreeToBe
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:21pmPersonally, I am happy to see someone take ABC on. Maybe others will be encouraged to do the same. All it takes is for someone strong enough to be the first. I would like to see all of the mms taken to task.
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BADDOGGYDESCIPLE
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:19pmKinda got a hankerin’ for some Taco Bell all of a sudden.
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226crimsontrace
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:26pmYou know how to live, pink slime with horse meat, we could call it Equine Fuscia.
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drewder
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:13pmJust because something looks weird doesn’t make it bad. This whole thing was sensationalized and preyed on peoples fears.
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226crimsontrace
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:22pmTry a plate full if your willing to back up your comment
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naughtycal
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:28pmKind of reminds of the time NBC news blew up a ford truck intentionally stating there was a dangerous defect that later was determined to not exsist.
ABC News and the station are guilty as sin. The company should recieve 4 times the loss revenue or 2.4 billion.
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searcher619
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:32pmThey play on the fact that most people are ignorant of the food they eat. most people really don’t want to know. As long as it tastes good and isn’t actually harmful then they re usually happy. Tell them that the FDA allows for a certain amount of food contaminants and they have a fit. Once you explain to them WHY they do then most calm the hell down. Our food supply is perfectly safe. Media outlets like ABC just like to alarm people to boost ratings when they can. The truth be damned.
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pap pap
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:34pmYeah just like the sequestor thing. Maybe the chickens have come home to roost.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:40pmNAUGHTYCAL, It was the GM pickups with side saddle fuel tanks. That means they were positioned outside of the frame. It was done on a 1993 episode of Dateline. Not only did they puncture a small hole in the fuel tank as Michele Gillen explained in her report. They also ignited the fuel vapors with a model rocket motor, probably an Estes. I remember watching that show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEkc_DlvN9Y
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searcher619
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:40pm226crimsontrace:
People have been eating the stuff or stuff just like it for a very long time. Please show us how it EVER caused any harm. Please educate yourself before speaking on something you clearly know nothing about.
http://radio.foxnews.com/2012/03/29/please-educate-yourself-on-ammonium-hydroxide-before-you-scream-over-pink-slime/
http://junkscience.com/2012/03/22/rob-lyons-lies-damned-lies-and-pink-slime/
There absolutely nothing wrong with what you are so ignorantly turning your nose up at. the problem YOU have with it is what we call a 1st world problem. Maybe you should spend some time outside of the safety of the 1st world and then MAYBE you would appreciate how safe our food is compared to the rest of the world.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:44pmIsn’t that what Bologna is mad of?
Hell, I grew up on bologna sandwiches. That was about all I could afford in college.
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226crimsontrace
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:55pmSEARCHE619
Did I say any one was harmed by it? See if you can get some, try a plate of it, see if you like it.
Like I said earlier, properly processed cow pi$$ could be added to beer with no ill effects, but I want to know if it’s in there. Just like I want to know if PINK SLIME is added to my medium rare hamburger
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oldduffer
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:04pm@226crimsontrace
You ever eat sausage or hot dogs. Ever hear of Kidney pie or the Scottish favorite Haggis?
The national dish of Scotland is Haggis. It is a wonderful, tasty dish which uses sheep’s offal(the bits nowadays often discarded; lungs, hearts, liver)
You don’t want to know what goes into some of the different sausage.
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Eastinfection
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:43pmThis stuff is available at most grocery stores right next to the other ground beef. If you’ve bought chop meat that says “98%” lean ground beef, chances are you’ve bought some of this before and didn’t even realize it.
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taxpro4u03
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:46pmwon’t the vegans be po’d to learn they’ve got the crap’s ‘by-product’ of the by-product in their ‘veggie’ burgers… ;-).
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Vision Harry
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:57pmCareful Mr. 266 Crimson trace, You are giving away Coors’ secret recipe.
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226crimsontrace
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:21pmOLDUFUS
Of course I have had sausage, hot dogs, and one of my favorites is treipen, made with fresh hogs blood.
That said, I know what the ingredients are, and cook them well done, I do not like well done ground beef, so I want to know if pink slime is in it.
I also like raw ground round on a *******, don’t want anything slimy in that either
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Verceofreason
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 8:00pmAnd a year’s supply of McRibs to YOU!
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termyt
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:13pmI don’t know. I’d think ABC would know “slimy” when they saw it, considering their newsroom.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:27pmLoL!
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MrKnowItAll
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:13pmAlthough it’s pretty hard to get enough Duck Blood, with all the health regulations. I Love my Duck Blood Soup. LOVE IT! Doubt if people would think this is as tasty as it is. Or any less tasty then Pink Slim.
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searcher619
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:43pmIt’s a cultural thing. We in the west have been spoiled to the point of being food snobs.
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226crimsontrace
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:24pmSEARCHER619
I admit that I am a food snob from the spoiled USA, I won’t eat a dog (knowingly) even if perfectly blended with kitty pink slime
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gauge
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:11pm“The court fight could put modern television journalism on trial and highlight the power of language in the Internet Age,” Reuters notes.
GOOD!
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GumRock
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:34pm” The company would need to prove ABC knew the facts it was reporting were false or it recklessly disregarded the truth.”
The parade of clips and other recklessly disregards of the truth that have been a regular Practice of that network and should provide a history of Abuse and Misinformation.
Easy to prove and hopefully open the doors to holding networks accountable.
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:10pmAnytime someone sues Diane Sawyer and ABC news (or any news agency and news person) it is a good thing.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:45pmMakes them accountable for what they say.
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sorellahees
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:10pmGenuine question: with the sudden widespread pulling of this ingredient from food products, is this why ground beef prices are so high now?
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neidermeyer
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:32pmQuite possibly ,, that and beef herds are supposedly smaller outside of areas where grass feed is the norm,, fattening cattle on corn is not cost effective anymore.
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Puddle Duck
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 5:09pmnope….inflation is responsible for the hikes on nearly everything the past few years….you would be shicked to know that the increases from 2007 until now (for all manner of goods and products) have averaged well above 30%..many times the reported percentages published by the Feds…in some instances the increase in cost is in excess of 150%………How this very noticable rise in the cost of living has not been liiked into and reported on regularly is further proof that the MSM does not take it’s job seriously (anymore). The actual inflation rates since 2007 are well above 10% per annum…roughly equal to or worse than the dark years of the Carter Admin and rivalling that of the Great Depression.
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woodyee
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:09pm“modern television journalism”?
What the EF is that? A license to garner Nielson ratings by lying, and destroying companies and the lives that work at those companies?
Remember Mike Gartner, high mucky-muck of NBC in the 80′s: Busted for filming wildlife workers counting fish which had been electro-shocked, and reporting it was a fish-kill caused by a logging company up-river. If that weren’t enough, (I think it was) Chevy trucks were getting a bad rap for exploding gas tanks, and NBC rigged one up to explode on impact, rammed it with another car, and then reported that it was easy for those trucks to explode in regular collisions.
Mike Gartner was fired – but he was fired because he WAS CAUGHT. Had he not been caught, he’d still be fabricating news, just like they all do today; just like Diane Sawyer and ABC sNews…
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Spitfire1938
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:08pmBravo! Slam the communists at Disney/ABC for their absolutely criminal slander. That Diane ‘thing’ should be behind bars. Reclaimed beef is a triumph of technology and American ingenuity that saves millions upon millions of dollars and perfectly good beef that, before the technology was developed, was always thrown away.
Not to worry though, Justice is no longer blind and Disney/ABC is blessed….
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PK_SEA
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:16pmPink Sli…uh, I mean Pink Beef Product for dinner, yum.
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subic
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:26pmThe pink slme company is probably not on board with the ABC & the lame stream’s false narrative that their globalist masters are pushing to the sheep dipped lemmings.
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lel2007
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:04pmI’m sure Diane will emot for BPI.
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Gonzo
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:22pmThink she’ll use that “oh so concerned/worried” look? Yep, the only one she has.
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Xanderson
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:39pmWell she looks much more relaxed when completely hammered, which is not an infrequent thing for Diane to be :)
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Xanderson
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:42pmHere she is… Ain’t she sweet?
http://m.gawker.com/diane-sawyer-drunk/
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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:04pmIf the company was defamed then they should be compensated,and hitting the propagandists at abc with a 1.2 billion dollar lawsuit is their only recourse. It would be nice to put them out of business,I can’t stomach any of those msm propagandists.
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Winedude
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:25pmIt seems to me that Oprah was involved in a similar lawsuit in Texas in 1998. She and a guest on her show disparaged beef on the show during a mad-cow disease epidemic. The price of beef futures and beef on the hoof dropped substantially the very next day. The case went to trial and Oprah and her guest were absolved of any damages. Remember, the jury are American food consumers too. I rather suspect that this is the same thing that will happen in this case unless they actually bother to settle. I don’t see that it’s a problem when someone lets the American public know what’s in their food. Just like the American public deserves to know if they’re eating genetically modified food…why they mostly are since the food giants are putting GMO high fructose corn sweetener in just about every food on the American market. It always amuses me when folks from overseas come here to work a harvest. They aren’t here more than a few days when they’re asking why everything here is so damned sweet, especially the breads? This sweetener is far more dangerous than “pink slime” but I’d rather not be consuming either one, thank you…
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Fitzzz
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:04pmSawyer & Slime are one and the same
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:08pmLoL….true.
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bartjoebob
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:18pmExactly… the only pink slime I see on this page is pictured next to a sloppy joe
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Navyguy62
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:04pmIf a reporter would be held liable for yelling ‘FIRE’ in a crowded theater. Even if they said they just wanted to see if the customers knew how to use the fire exits they would still be liable.
Why then would Ms Sawyer and ABC not be held to the same standard?
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momrules
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:02pmPersonally, I think everyone who passed this stuff off as meat and sold it to an unwitting public should be in jail.
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redfish52
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:12pmIts not sold as meat. It is more of a filler. Its in everything from Spaghetti Sauce to Slim Jims. You’ve eaten your weight in it and just didn’t know it….oh and I work in the Food Manufacturing Industry so I’m not just pulling your leg…the stuff is harmless…just looks gross. Think of it as pink, meaty yogurt.
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Autumknight
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:17pmIf Obama made “Pink Slime”, it would look like that
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226crimsontrace
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:20pmI agree, also I want to ask everyone with the big mouthed comments here if they want to try a plate full of this… slime. Medium rare?? I suspect most of you would pass
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civilwarcometh
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:21pmMOMRULES: I’m with you on this one. They have to put everything else on the labels telling us what in the food. Why not this???
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226crimsontrace
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:24pmHey Redfish, is this as harmless as yellow snow?
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searcher619
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:48pmIt is meat. My god your stupidity is astounding. Please tell us how it isn’t meat. Tell us how it’s harmful in any way.
http://radio.foxnews.com/2012/03/29/please-educate-yourself-on-ammonium-hydroxide-before-you-scream-over-pink-slime/
People like you should be force to eat like the rest of the world eats. Our food supply is among the safest in the world. Unlike your sheltered arse I have spent time in South America, China, Russia, and other places. You haven’t a damned clue how good we have it here.
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momrules
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:18pmhttp://www.naturalnews.com/035517_pink_slime_ammonium_hydroxide_burgers.html
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momrules
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:24pmhttp://www.naturalnews.com/027872_ammonia_beef_products.html
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momrules
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:08pmhttp://www.occupymonsanto360.org/Occupy,Monsanto,GMO,Genetic,Engineering,Modified,Organism,Food,Sustainable,Local,Locavore,Organic,RoundUp/pink-slime/
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Stoic one
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:10pmMom,
what do you think of a product that in it’s gaseous from causes severe burns, in it’s liquid form causes asphyxiation, and it’s solid form causes severe lacerations? It is in a plethora of products. and it is CHEAP!
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momrules
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:44pmLet me be clear…………I despise Diane Sawyer, ABC, NBC and CBS but I also despise being lied to or being misled about what I am eating.
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Stoic one
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:53pmWhat do you think of the product I described?
I too want to be clear: UNDERSTAND THE INFORMATION YOU ACQUIRE.
So what about that product? I do have a point.
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Winedude
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:20pmReally stoic one? How absolutely stupid for you to compare the phases of water to putting a known poison into the food supply. The part of this story that most people are missing is the fact that this stuff has been in the food supply for some time, the consuming pubic be damned. Even worse, they got the USDA to go along with the ruse so they didn’t have to put the ammonia hydroxide on the label.
But getting back to your very ignorant analogy…nobody I know, and maybe you have friends even more stupid than you are, sticks their hand or any other body part into live steam, dunks their head into a vessel of water and then breathes, nor tries to see if the sometimes sharp edges of ice are sharp enough to cut themselves. These folks do eat hamburger and deserve to know WTF is in their food supply…revealing the truth is NOT LIBEL!!!
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226crimsontrace
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:27pmMOMRULES
I think I’m in love with you, Good sources
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MDECKER
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:33pmEver been in the kitchen of a chineese restaurant?
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momrules
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:48pmStoic………I replied to you but it wound up on page 3. Read it or don’t, I don’t care.
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Stoic one
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:53pmWINEDUDE
Good job!
I DO READ the labels. And yes I have known for a long time about processed beef products. I do know what BHA & BHT are used for as well.
How about a white granular substance that : raises blood pressure, increases heart rate, is linked to cancer, damages the pancreas,liver, kidneys. If applied topically…..If inhaled…or injected….
By varying dose/concentrations determines whether or not something is beneficial or harmful- as i am sure you know.
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sta
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 8:41pmThe manufacturer told everyone what it is. It’s BEEF. Very finely ground beef.
Everyone who is freaking about this needs to talk to a REAL butcher. Ask them what they do with the meat left on the bone after the good cuts are removed. The get as much off as they can, grind it up and add it in with the rest of the meat too small for a roast and it’s GROUND BEEF.
I HAVE eaten this and would again, It’s yummy with a nice sauce or made to a patty for a burger. It’s BEEF, same DNA as a roast.
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Winedude
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:27pmStoic…I love my sugar! It doesn’t love me so much at more advanced age and I’m pretty careful about how much I consume. Coca Cola made with real cane sugar is my worst culprit, so I avoid it most of the time.
STA: I have friends in the meat business and what you say is absolutely true. What they DON’T do is add ammonia hydroxide to their beef. This is the part that I find most objectionable. I expect to know what I’m eating and I expect it to be on the label. The producers did an end run with the full approval of the USDA, showing you how little respect they have for the American consumer.
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Gonzo
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:01pmI hope Disney has to pay every penny of it.
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subic
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:09pmMe too GONZO, I worked for them for a few years…talk about fairyland!
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woodyee
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:17pmThat’s a good one, Subic! LOL!
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Stoic one
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 2:58pmWhen this story came out I knew then that ABC was maligning the product. the same could be done with BHA and hundreds of other food additives that the public knows nothing about
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Winedude
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:37pmBut BHT,BHA and other preservatives are on the label. I don’t see ammonia hydroxide anywhere on the label…
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Locked
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 2:56pmI hope the lawsuit gets thrown out. Sorry, but pink slime is pretty accurate.
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subic
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:06pmThe best of both worlds, ‘pink slime’ exposed & the suing of skank Sawyer & ABC.
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Gonzo
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:13pmEver been to any kind of meat processing facility? It’s all enough to make you a vegetarian. Just because the process is unappetizing is no reason to demonize it and ruin a company. I am unaware of anyone ever harmed by the product.
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john vincent
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:28pm-lock
I’m surprised you think this way- Looks gross to me also, but how does a character assassination of a product have any standing?
Could you report a story with a straight face saying ‘eating fritos’ causes mental retardation? Its kind of like the same thing- this is the perception Sawyer gave.
-’reporting’ something—– and ‘defining’ something are not twins. Seems by the companys bottom line that their product was ‘defamed,’ I’m sure they have analytical charts to bring a case.
Have no idea how this will turn out, but if anything good, it draws attention to ‘words spoken,’ and their ensuing impact
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226crimsontrace
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:31pmGONZO
I worked at a kosher kill plant for 5 years, it made me appreciate the good cuts of meat, and detest the “byproducts” that should be rendered into dog food, rather than be processed and added to ground beef
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subic
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:35pmGood point GONZ, now that some of you mention it, I have heard of no ill effects from this product.
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226crimsontrace
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:46pmSUBIC
If you processed cow pi$$ properly, then added it to your favorite beer, there would be no ill effects either
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Spitfire1938
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:59pmMy guess LOCKED is you don’t know what “Pink Slime” is. Jamie Oliver, a ‘celebrity’ Chef, actually started the abuse of LFTB (look it up) by claiming meat processors were throwing normally excluded ‘organ’ byproducts, heart, testicle, brain, kidney, intestines etc. into LFTB. Not true!
Beef bones used to be processed with significant meat scraps still on the bone because it was not economical to reclaim. The reclamation technology changed that fact and is magnificent. It created a significant new market and job growth within the meat processing industry. Disney/ABC, communist that they are, set out to deliberately destroy that achievement. They succeeded.
BTW Jamie Oliver is an exellent Chef! Unfortunately he’s also a “GREENIE”!
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Locked
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:50pm@John Vincent
“I’m surprised you think this way- Looks gross to me also, but how does a character assassination of a product have any standing?”
How is it character assassination? That stuff IS pink slime.
“Could you report a story with a straight face saying ‘eating fritos’ causes mental retardation?”
That is not REMOTELY close to what’s happening in this story. As per the article: “ABC never said BPI’s product is dangerous, and courts have repeatedly offered broad protections for journalists in the course of their work.”
ABC never made false claims about the product besides describing it as “pink slime.” They never said it was harmful.
@Spitfire
Then Jamie Oliver should be the one sued, not ABC. I don’t care one fig for a news network that I’ve never watched – I DO care about lawsuits like these, because they are an extreme example of the over-litigious nature of American business these days. Your sales are dropping because you showed an unappealing side of your business? Then you have a PR problem, not a legal one!
Make your product more appealing; don’t cry and run to your lawyers when someone points out (accurately) that it’s gross-looking!
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john vincent
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:47pm-lock
Seems you are losing this debate; far too many good comments going the other way.
Could Ms Sawyer report on a cottage cheese company, calling their product ‘white puke?????????’
Sure she could, but like our topic today, there would be consequences. She has interjected her opinion in that which was her duty to only report-this is the difference.
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Locked
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:04pm@John Vincent
“Seems you are losing this debate; far too many good comments going the other way.”
Appeal to popularity is a logical fallacy :-)
“Could Ms Sawyer report on a cottage cheese company, calling their product ‘white puke??”
If it looked like it? Probably (though “puke” has a specific definition, so it’s unlikely it would be used).
It seems to me, and correct me if I’m wrong, that you have an interest in seeing ABC punished?
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john vincent
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:17pm-lock
tkx for quick reply
-your point about appealing to numbers was valid,
but I only meant the ‘quality’ of, not the amount of
-abc punished?
with 100% candor: no
if Pat Robertson, Or’eilly, John Mclaughlin, Fred Rogers, etc etc, it would be equally egregious–
I think that is the strengh of the co. arguement-
(i thought the cottage cheese idea was rather good)
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Locked
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:59pm@John Vincent
Fair enough. Frankly, I’m generally anti-lawsuits, as most seem frivolous. I still contend that if a business has a PR issue, they should work on improving their product’s presentation rather than using courts to silence their critics. I suppose we’ll see how the courts rule; but if I were a betting man, my money would be on the company losing.
Have a blessed day :-)
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Spitfire1938
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 2:20amThanks for your reply LOCKED. The point is BPI produces a PURE BEEF “filler” that is added to another beef product. It’s “Hamburger Helper” never intended to have “eye appeal” for consumers. They don’t even advertise to consumers; they were blind-sided by ABC! LFTB is FDA approved and safe. NO ONE has EVER been sickened from eating it. It’s the same BEEF it’s being added to, it blends in and tastes exactly the same. To just throw it away cost all beef processors millions in lost revenue. Think of losing 1/3rd of your corn crop because you can’t get all the kernels off the cob!
Diane Sawyer and Disney/ABC deliberately lied about BPI and completely misrepresented the product. They caused, as they knew they would, uninformed average Americans to recoil in disgust to a “SHAPED” deliberately disingenuous falsehood!. Those direct lies caused BPI to shut 3 facilities, fire hundreds of employees and incur a 1/3rd loss in revenue. The ‘logic’ behind your viewpoint eludes me!
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Posted on March 6, 2013 at 8:24am@Spitfire
“Diane Sawyer and Disney/ABC deliberately lied about BPI ”
This contention was made before. What did they deliberately lie about? The article itself says that the company is fighting an uphill battle precisely BECAUSE ABC didn’t lie about the product.
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Spitfire1938
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:26amIn the famous words of Emperor Joseph II: “Well, there it is.”
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