DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. - BPI has brought a billion dollar defamation lawsuit against ABC News for BPI's lean, finely textured beef product -- which ABC reporters referred to as "pink slime," Supermarket News reports.
BPI, collectively Beef Products, Inc., BPI Technology, Inc., and Freezing Machines, Inc., claims sales dropped 80 percent within a few days of the "pink slime" news, which necessitated the shuttering of two of the corporation's facilities and the layoff of 700 employees.
"ABC had consumers believing my client's product was not beef at all, that it was a filler not safe for human consumption and that BPI had committed economic food fraud on consumers," said attorney Dan Webb of Winton & Strawn, representing BPI.
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