Beef Product Inc, the maker of Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB), now commonly known as “pink slime,” on Thursday filed suit against ABC News, former U.S. Department of Agriculture officials, and a former company employee for alleged defamation of its product, which used to be a component of the vast
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Former BPI Employee Plans to File Suit Over LFTB Backlash
A former Beef Products Inc employee plans to file a civil lawsuit in response to the national frenzy over lean finely textured beef (LFTB), now widely known to consumers as pink slime. 
Sioux City, Iowa-based Rauttnee Publishing Company announced it will hold a press conference on Tuesday to detail the
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LFTB-maker Met With White House Staff in 2011
About a year before Lean Finely Textured Beef, or pink slime, would garner national attention — and outrage among consumers on social media — the product’s maker, Beef Product Inc, paid a visit to the White House. According to visitor logs released by the Obama administration last month, BPI’s CEO
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Watch a 1-Hour Webinar on Lean Finely Textured Beef
Over the last 2 years, Food Seminars International has produced over 100 online “webinars” on food safety and related fields. FSI often teams up with the Food Processing Suppliers Association to produce their webinars and the speakers are some of the top people in the business.
FSI and FPSA
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BPI, Maker of ‘Pink Slime,’ to Close 3 of 4 Plants
Beef Products Inc., which manufactures lean finely textured beef — the product decried in recent months as ‘pink slime’ — has announced it will shut down three of its four plants on May 25.
The move comes a month and a half after the company temporarily suspended operations at the
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30 Lawmakers Ask USDA to ‘Correct the Public Record’ on LFTB
Thirty lawmakers wrote to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Thursday asking what the U.S. Department of Agriculture has done and can do in the future to help stop “the campaign of the misinformation” about Lean Finely Textured Beef, now widely known to American consumers as “pink slime.”
Calling the media
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The Rise to Fame of ‘Pink Slime’
Last week, Iowa’s Gov. Terry Branstad and U.S. Rep. Steve King called for a congressional hearing on the media coverage that fueled a public backlash against ‘pink slime,’ Beef Products Inc.’ s Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB). Among other things, King accused journalists and activists of perpetrating a “smear campaign”
BPI and ‘Pink Slime’: A Timeline
The story of Beef Products Inc.’s Lean Finely Textured Beef isn’t new, and neither is the nickname “pink slime.” Yet after more than 10 years on the market, the beef additive had never received the level of attention it did beginning in March of this year when a cascade of
Iowa Leaders Seek Congressional Hearing on Pink Slime Critics
Congressman Steve King (R-IA) and Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad are pushing for a congressional probe into what many in the meat industry are calling a “smear campaign” against Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB), a formerly obscure component commonly used in ground beef now known to the public as “pink slime.”
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‘Pink Slime:’ Some Questions About What’s Really at Stake
The “pink slime” furor gets curiouser and curiouser. It’s hard to keep up (see yesterday’s post) but here’s my summary of where we are with this for the moment.
What is the furor about?
The best place to start is with Michael Moss’s December 30, 2009 investigative report in
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