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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 ...
McDonald's (NYS: MCD) , Taco Bell, and Burger King all decided in January they would stop using "pink slime" in their food after pressure from celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. This is a hit to margins ...
Around 2014, a photo of "pink slime" or "pink goop" was widely shared and claimed to be what Chicken McNuggets were made of. [16] [17] This has led to McDonald's Canada releasing a video showcasing how Chicken McNuggets are actually made in response. [18] [19]
Beef Products Inc. is the creator of a product called "lean finely textured beef," also known as "pink slime." The latter term was first used in 2002 by a Food Safety Inspection Service worker. [14] In 2002, it patented a process that turns materials that had previously gone for pet food or oil into products for human consumption. [15]
The company announced the next year it no longer used pink slime, but rumors of continued use plagued the company for a decade — and McDonald’s had to release another statement in 2021 to set ...
Disney's earnings report revealed the company spent $177 million to settle the "pink slime" lawsuit from a story ABC ran about beef in 2012.
BPI had claimed ABC, a unit of Walt Disney Co, and Avila defamed the company by calling its ground-beef product "pink slime" and making errors and omissions in a 2012 report. The terms of the ...
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.