Thursday, September 13, 2012

ABC NEWS SLIMED BY BPI OVER LFTB SCAM

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









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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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