ABC NEWS SLIMED BY BPI OVER LFTB SCAM
BPI Announces Defamation Lawsuit Over 'Pink Slime'
Sept. 13, 2012
The company that makes what it calls lean finely textured beef, the food
product that critics call "pink slime," has announced a defamation suit against
ABC News after reports on the product by ABC and others led to reduced demand.
Media organizations have frequently reported on the product that often was
added to ground beef sold in supermarkets and served in restaurants and schools.
"The lawsuit is without merit," said Jeffrey Schneider, Senior Vice
President of ABC News, which ran several such reports. "We will contest it
vigorously."
Beef Products Inc., BPI Technology Inc. and Freezing Machines Inc.,
collectively known as BPI, first publicly indicated Wednesday its intention to
share details of "a major lawsuit regarding defamation of its beef product, lean
finely textured beef" today.
The product, abbreviated as LFTB, is made of beef trimmings that are heated
and spritzed with ammonia gas to kill bacteria. Blending in the product can
reduce the price of ground beef. The USDA says that the product is safe to eat
and reduces the overall fat content of beef products.
In late March, governors from three meat-producing states walked through a
BPI plant with reporters and defended LFTB. "It's beef, but it's leaner beef
which is better for you," Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said. "We take this off the
market then we end up with a fatter product that's going to cost more and is
going to increase the obesity problem in this country."
Then USDA scientist Gerald Zirnstein first coined the term "pink slime" to
describe what the industry calls LFTB in an email he sent to USDA colleagues in
2002. He and former USDA colleague Carl Custer continue to be outspoken critics
of LFTB.
After a flurry of news reports earlier this year, several national grocery
chains publicly vowed to discontinue selling beef containing the product,
joining some other supermarket chains that claimed they never did.
Restaurants, including McDonald's, Burger King and Taco Bell, had earlier
stopped buying it.
In early April, the USDA approved requests by BPI and others that they be
allowed to label products containing LFTB. Given the choice by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, many school districts refused to accept beef with the
"pink slime." Only three states participating in the National School Lunch
Program -- Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota, all states with BPI facilities --
agreed to order ground beef that might contain the product, according to a June
6 ABC News report.
With demand apparently falling, BPI announced in late March it would
temporarily suspend operations at plants in Texas, Kansas and Iowa, but continue
to operate one in South Dakota. The company blamed social media and news
organizations, specifically ABC News, for what it called a gross
misrepresentation of its product and process.
On April 2, AFA Foods, a Pennsylvania-based competitor to BPI, filed for
bankruptcy protection, citing reduced demand stemming from the media's coverage
of "pink slime."
pink slime or lean fine textured beef ?
these are my opinions, along with a bit of science on the issue of feeding
our children via the USDA NSLP.
1ST and foremost, ammoniated beef does NOT kill the BSE TSE prion mad cow
agent.
to define these scraps i.e. pink slime, as lean fine textured beef, instead
of whatever else you would like to call it, at best, is very deceiving.
I did not coin the term ‘pink slime’, but i think whoever did, the term
fits the product, more than what the USDA et al would like you to call it.
PINK SLIME LFTB MSM MRM BSE TSE PRION
Saturday, April 21, 2012
HISD seeks refund on burgers with 'pink slime'
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
PINK SLIME, MRM’s, BSE AKA MAD COW DISEASE, AND THE USDA NSLP
Saturday, May 26, 2012
SLIMED WITH BSE USA
re-Blogger tackles consumer questions about LFTB, BSE
Monday, September 3, 2012
Sale of misbranded and/or non-inspected meat and meat products to Omaha
Public Schools indicted
> > > Ackerman says downed cattle are 50 times more likely to have
mad cow disease (also known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or BSE) than
ambulatory cattle that are suspected of having BSE. Of the 20 confirmed cases of
mad cow disease in North America since 1993, at least 16 have involved downer
cattle, he said. < < <
don’t forget the children...
PLEASE be aware, for 4 years, the USDA fed our children all across the
Nation (including TEXAS) dead stock downer cows, the most high risk cattle for
BSE aka mad cow disease and other dangerous pathogens. who will watch our
children for CJD for the next 5+ decades ???
WAS your child exposed to mad cow disease via the NSLP ???
SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM FROM DOWNER CATTLE UPDATE
DID YOUR CHILD CONSUME SOME OF THESE DEAD STOCK DOWNER COWS, THE MOST HIGH
RISK FOR MAD COW DISEASE ???
you can check and see here ;
WHO WILL FOLLOW THE CHILDREN FOR CJD SYMPTOMS (aka mad cow disease) FOR THE
NEXT 50 YEARS ???
Saturday, May 2, 2009
U.S. GOVERNMENT SUES WESTLAND/HALLMARK MEAT OVER USDA CERTIFIED DEADSTOCK
DOWNER COW SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM
Monday, August 27, 2012
Central Valley Meat Company: USDA Did its Job, OK?
Opinion & Contributed Articles
by Dr. Richard Raymond | Aug 27, 2012 Opinion
Dr. Richard Raymond former Undersecretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department
of Agriculture (2005-2008)
In closing, I expect Terry to add his two cents worth and I will point out
that the risk of variant CJD from eating US beef is as close to zero as we can
make it. There are many interlocking steps to keep us safe, including:
in the url that follows, I have posted
SRM breaches first, as late as 2011.
then
MAD COW FEED BAN BREACHES AND TONNAGES OF MAD COW FEED IN COMMERCE up until
2007, when they ceased posting them.
then,
MAD COW SURVEILLANCE BREACHES.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Update from APHIS Regarding a Detection of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
(BSE) in the United States Friday May 18, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Are USDA assurances on mad cow case 'gross oversimplification'?
SNIP...
What irks many scientists is the USDA’s April 25 statement that the rare
disease is “not generally associated with an animal consuming infected feed.”
The USDA’s conclusion is a “gross oversimplification,” said Dr. Paul Brown,
one of the world’s experts on this type of disease who retired recently from the
National Institutes of Health.
"(The agency) has no foundation on which to base that statement.”
“We can’t say it’s not feed related,” agreed Dr. Linda Detwiler, an
official with the USDA during the Clinton Administration now at Mississippi
State.
In the May 1 email to me, USDA’s Cole backed off a bit. “No one knows the
origins of atypical cases of BSE,” she said
The argument about feed is critical because if feed is the cause, not a
spontaneous mutation, the California cow could be part of a larger outbreak.
SNIP...
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
Final Feed Investigation Summary - California BSE Case - July 2012
=============================================
SUMMARY REPORT CALIFORNIA BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY CASE
INVESTIGATION JULY 2012
Summary Report BSE 2012
Executive Summary
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Update from APHIS Regarding Release of the Final Report on the BSE
Epidemiological Investigation
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Detection of PrPSc in peripheral tissues of clinically affected cattle
after oral challenge with BSE
2011 Monday, September 26, 2011
L-BSE BASE prion and atypical sporadic CJD
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Human TSE report update North America, Canada,
Mexico, and USDA PRION UNIT as of May 18, 2012
type determination pending Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (tdpCJD), is on the
rise in Canada and the USA
Monday, July 23, 2012
The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center July 2012
Sunday, May 18, 2008
BSE, CJD, and Baby foods (the great debate 1999 to 2005)
TSS
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