lean finely textured beef

Lean, Finely-Textured Beef Making a Comeback In Spite of Media Attacks

julia.seymour — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:36:27 +0000

Rising food prices have driven up demand for the meat media denigrated as ‘pink slime.’

Julia A. Seymour

Lean, finely-textured beef (LFTB), commonly referred to by media outlets as “pink slime,” is “back in demand,” according to Yahoo! News.

In 2012, a series of media attacks on LFTB, including several by ABC News, scared grocery stores like Kroger and Safeway and restaurants like McDonald’s away from using the meat product even though it had been safe and approved for use by the USDA for many years.

— Julia A. Seymour is Assistant Managing Editor for MRC Business at the Media Research Center. Follow Julia A. Seymour on Twitter.

MSNBC Uses Bogus Picture to Bash Beef

julia.seymour — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:40:38 +0000

‘News Nation’ hypes Politico story on return of lean beef to some school lunches.

Mike Ciandella

Apparently the burden of proof rests with MSNBC’s viewers to notice when the cable channel uses incorrect photos.

Politico Back to Sliming Lean Finely Textured Beef

julia.seymour — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:45:33 +0000

As beef returns to some schools Politico attacks the product ABC damaged in 2012.

Mike Ciandella

Summer is almost over, but Politico is still ready to throw lean, finely-textured beef back on the fire to cook some more, following ABC’s 2012 roasting of the product and the company that makes it.

The Sept. 9 Politico story referred to the beef as “controversial” twice, “scraps” twice, and “the product” six times. It even referred to it as “remnant scraps of cattle carcasses.”

ABC’s Jim Avila: More Activism Than Journalism

dan.gainor — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:09:18 +0000

Correspondent named in $1.2 billion lawsuit after attacks on lean beef.

Liz Thatcher

Jim Avila may not be a household name, but he has become one of the most prominent news correspondents on television – averaging 130 reports a year since 1997. But he’s done much more than just report the news, Avila has become an activist.