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Beach Beat: What’s in a name? Beef — drop the mic and label the hamburger

By Coral Beach on March 14, 2019
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There’s a new ground beef in town. Its proud father is working to make sure folks know it for what it is. Ground beef. The father? Eldon Roth.

As far as I know, Roth…
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Hormel, Pilgrim’s Pride, BPI provide reports to USDA’s brass

By News Desk on March 21, 2018

Hormel, Pilgrim’s Pride and Beef Products Inc. were three companies providing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service with a personal update during February. A delegation from each company met with acting…
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AIG says ABC should have asked permission before reporting

By Dan Flynn on October 28, 2017

AIG, the multinational insurance company, says its Chartis Specialty Insurance Co. sold the Disney Co. a policy for journalists at ABC Television that would only pay out if they were sued for malice and had…
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Jury trial begins today in BPI v. ABC on the saga of ‘pink slime’

By Dan Flynn on June 5, 2017

ELK POINT, SD — A 12-member jury and four alternates, including 11 women and five men, are ready to hear opening arguments today in a $1.9 billion defamation trial scheduled to last eight weeks here…
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Publisher’s Platform: Blue Barf, Green Goop, Purple Puke, Red Rubbish or Yellow Yuck

By Bill Marler on June 4, 2017

Given the BPI v. ABC trial starts this week, I thought it would be good to repost an Op-Ed I penned in April 2012.

truthWhat if you were the CEO of a multimillion dollar,…
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SD jury trial in BPI v ABC to start June 5, but without Diane Sawyer

By News Desk on March 16, 2017
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ABC Broadcasting and on-air reporter Jim Avila are being ordered to face a Union County, SD jury over a $5.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed by…
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Letter From the Editor: BPI vs. ABC News

By Dan Flynn on March 30, 2014

I like a good trial as much as the next guy. Late last week, South Dakota Circuit Judge Cheryle Gering said she was not going to dismiss Beef Products Inc.’s $1.2-billion lawsuit against ABC News.
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Judge Hears Arguments in ABC's 'Pink Slime' Defamation Case

By James Andrews on December 17, 2013

Lawyers representing ABC News and two former USDA inspectors squared off Tuesday in a South Dakota courtroom against attorneys for Beef Products Inc. (BPI) in a defamation lawsuit stemming from the television network’s coverage of…
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IAFP 2013: Bridging the Gap Between Food Science and Public Perception

By James Andrews on July 31, 2013

With controversial issues such as genetically engineered foods, nanotechnology and Pink Slime occupying headlines that leave consumers concerned and food company executives wringing their hands, a panel of food safety experts convened on the second…
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BPI v. ABC Remanded Back to South Dakota Courts

By Dan Flynn on June 14, 2013

Would Diane Sawyer hanging around tiny Elk Point, SD for a state Circuit Court trial be even more of a spectacle than in 1998 when Oprah Winfrey had to spent most of a week in…
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