Beef Products Inc files defamation lawsuit v ABC News over 'pink slime' reports: 'Our world was turned upside down'
As the 'corn sugar' case makes clear, names matter when it comes to food labeling, and few cases highlight this issue more starkly than the lean finely textured beef (LFTB)/'pink slime' furor that decimated sales at LFTB maker Beef Products Inc and prompted its high-profile defamation lawsuit against ABC News.
Three months later, Bruce Smith, a former BPI employee, launched his own civil suit against ABC News and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, whose "false and misleading" reporting on LFTB caused sales of LTFB to plummet and forced BPI to close three plants with the loss of more than 750 jobs, claimed Smith: Ex BPI employee sues Jamie Oliver and ABC News for ‘reckless’ reporting on lean finely textured beef