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Ex-BPI worker sues ABC News, others over ‘pink slime’
Story Date: 12/13/2012
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Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 12/12/12
An ex-Beef Products Inc. employee has filed a civil lawsuit against ABC News and other media contending their “pink slime” coverage cost him his job, according to a report by the Sioux City Journal.
Bruce Smith’s lawsuit also targets ABC News journalists Diane Sawyer and Jim Avila, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and food blogger Bettina Siegel.
He claims the defendants "willfully and maliciously spread false and misleading" statements about BPI's lean finely textured beef that fueled a consumer backlash that ultimately forced BPI to close three of its four plants and cut more than 800 jobs, including his.
Smith also has written a book about the ordeal, titled "Pink Slime Ate My Job."
In September, BPI filed its own $1 billion defamation lawsuit against ABC News and six people involved in the network's coverage of LFTB.
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