date:Apr 03, 2013
Lean finely textured beef maker (LFTB) Beef Products Inc. has filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News alleging its false and disparaging news reports about pink slime defamed its products and proved catastrophic to its business.
The South Dakota-based meat processor is seeking $1.2bn in damages over ABC News allegedly false and misleading and defamatory statements about lean, finely textured beef, which it claims destroyed BPIs reputation.
The statements were made after BPI and others sent