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Empirical Foods, formerly named Beef Products Inc. (BPI), [1] is an American meat processing company based in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota. Prior to high media visibility of its products, it was a major supplier to fast food chains, groceries and school lunch programs. It had three additional plants, which closed in 2012.
June 28 (Reuters) - Beef Products Inc has settled a closely watched defamation lawsuit against American Broadcasting Co and its reporter Jim Avila, the meat processor said on Wednesday.
ABC News and Beef Products Inc. reached a settlement in a lawsuit that claimed a story ABC ran in 2012 misled viewers and caused hundreds of layoffs.
On March 7, 2012, ABC News aired a segment dedicated to investigating a beef product called lean finely textured beef (LFTB) sold by the South Dakota beef company Beef Products, Inc (BPI). ABC News correspondents, including Diane Sawyer , reported on a whistleblower's claim that BPI's LFTB was used as a filler in the ground beef sold by many ...
Stuart Brotman, a journalism professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, said the settlement — far exceeding the $177 million paid to Beef Products Inc. by Walt Disney Co. in 2017 over ...
Lean finely textured beef in its finished form, from an ABC News report about the product. Lean finely textured beef (LFTB [1])—also called finely textured beef, [2] boneless lean beef trimmings (BLBT [3]), and colloquially known as pink slime—is a meat by-product used as a food additive to ground beef and beef-based processed meats, as a filler, or to reduce the overall fat content of ...
The company later relocated to Elizabeth, New Jersey. [1] [2] [3] The company produced and distributed frozen ground beef patties and other meat products processed at its 3,000-square-foot (280 m 2) plant in Elizabeth and posted about $8.8 million a year in sales, according to information reported by Dun & Bradstreet.
The lawsuit cites a full-page JBS USA advertisement in The New York Times in 2021 that includes the line: “Agriculture can be part of the climate solution. Bacon, chicken wings and steak with ...