National Ag News

Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in BPI’s (Beef Products Inc.) defamation lawsuit against ABC news.

BPI’s lawsuit alleges that ABC and reporter Jim Avila defamed the company’s Lean Finely Textured Beef product in 2012 by constantly referring to it as “pink slime”. BPI says it led to a loss of 400 million dollars in business, forcing the family-owned business to close all but its South Sioux City, Iowa plant and lay off more than 700 workers.

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