By GRANT SCHULTE, Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Beef Products Inc. has filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News for its coverage of a meat product that critics dubbed “pink slime,” alleging the network misled consumers to believe the product is unhealthy and unsafe.
The Dakota Dunes, S.D.-based company is seeking $1.2 billion in damages for roughly 200 “false and misleading and defamatory” statements about the product. The lawsuit, filed in a South Dakota court Thursday, also accuses ABC News of improper interference with the relationships between BPI and its customers.
BPI attorney Dan Webb says the reports led consumers to believe the beef is not meat, but an unhealthy slime unfit for human consumption.
ABC News senior vice president Jeffrey W. Schneider says the lawsuit has no merit. ABC News is owned by The Walt Disney Co.
**** them they shouldn’t be putting that **** in there anyway!
Hope the pink slime makers go bankrupt
Yea good luck with that. How is it defamation to tell the American consumers the truth about what we were eating??? Hope the scum bags lose the court case!!!! WE the American people should sue THEM for feeding us that disgusting toxic ****!!!!!!!
hey wait a minute , didn’t jamie oliver bring this to our attention first , oh yeah it was on abc . lmao . crony capitalism , profits at any cost .
Why don’t they prove it’s NOT unhealthy before filing?
It’s not defamation if it’s the truth. He won’t win
Use real chicken not fake **** problem solved instead of chemicals.
Stop trying to poisoning us with chemicals