Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 6/6/17

A more than $1 billion defamation trial over ABC news reports on a South Dakota meat producer’s lean, finely textured beef product started Monday with attorneys giving different versions of the company’s decline. Dakota Dunes-based Beef Products Inc. sued the television network in 2012, saying ABC’s coverage was a “disinformation campaign” that misled consumers into believing the product is unsafe, is not beef and isn’t nutritious. Critics have dubbed the product “pink slime.”

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