Blue_arrow posted:

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ABC News smeared a stellar company with 'pink slime'

ABC and reporter Jim Avila. The network's news division has decided to declare open war on … beef. So far, they’re winning. In a series of 10 stories in just about two weeks, ABC has so demonized the company and its products that Safeway, SUPERVALU and Food Lion just stopped buying it.


But network broadcasts and activist videos act as if this treatment is somehow bad. This is beyond simple irresponsibility. ABC is out to destroy a family owned business to push the agenda of a couple of “whistleblowers” who don’t like the company’s beef. One of these whistleblowers, whom ABC has relied on heavily in its reporting, has dubbed it “pink slime.”

ABC has covered the story almost round the clock in recent weeks with stories on “World News with Diane Sawyer” and “Good Morning America.”


Predictably ABC News has hyped its reports by using the term “pink slime” 52 times in just a two-week

In his March 22 victory lap report about the stores pulling the beef, Avila and anchor Diane Sawyer kept calling the meat “pink slime” like a 4-year-old who has just learned a dirty word. In all, they said it 10 times


Major media have attacked a long list of industries in recent years – coal, oil, guns, Wall Street, banks and more. Each time, they savage an industry, they do it for ratings, never caring what damage they do to a company, shareholders or employees who might soon be looking for work.

In ABC’s case, it’s clear they care more about headlines than health, never even mentioning the dangers of E. coli that the company, and industry, both fight against. What’s next for ABC and Avila? A war on companies that fight ebola?

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/23/how-abc-news-smeared-stellar-company-with-pink-slime/


Obama and company ABC,MSNBC,CNN destroying family business

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Fist_de_Yuma posted:

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You really think you are getting prime meat in ground beef? What hole have you been hiding in?

I use ground beef mixed with turkey meat. When I serve it I call it meat loaf, not ground beef/turkey meet loaf.

You have to ask a few thing. Is it safe; yes. Is it tasty? Perhaps, no one is complaining about the taste. Is it bad for you? Less fat may not mean that but that is what the "food experts" have been telling us. Of course they have gone 180 on so many things that few can trust a anything they say.

Just what is it in this meat that makes it deserve the title "red slime"? I mean other than ABC trying to get rating? Remember the apple scare? Fear gets ratings. Mindless followers tune in to be told to be scared. Science and facts need not get in the way.

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Sansfear posted:

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The lack of labeling is the only real issue. I believe that mechanically separated poultry has to be labeled as such, but beef did not.


If it were labeled and sold cheaper than regular ground beef people could make the choice of whether or not they wanted to buy it. It is the feeling of being misled that has people upset.


The media has fed that feeling in the extreme and having major companies stop buying it is a direct result of that backlash.


I'm guessing that laws regarding labeling will be passed and it will once again start being sold. But by that time, the companies involved will have been driven out of business.


And while some people may cringe at the 'pink slime' monicker, there are plenty of other foods that we'd probably think twice about if we knew how they were produced.


It isn't much different than the filler used in other products to increase yield.

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