The Roth family has established a $10 million fund to benefit former BPI employees that were negatively affected by plant closures in 2012. After ABC’s false reporting regarding the companies and Lean Finely Textured Beef, BPI was forced to lay off approximately 750 employees and close three of its production facilities in Amarillo, Texas, Garden […]

While she didn’t do the actual reporting of the ABC News story on Beef Products Inc.’s Lean Finely Textured Beef, Diane Sawyer had to review the  “pink slime” script before airing, calling the report factual. Sawyer’s video deposition was played Tuesday as testimony continued in the South Dakota-based BPI’s $1.9 billion defamation lawsuit against ABC […]

A marketing expert testified Tuesday in the ‘Pink Slime’ case that after the ABC news BPI report, more than 60 percent believed the product was not beef.