ABC reaches settlement in 'pink slime' defamation case
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}ABC says it has reached a settlement with a South Dakota meat producer that filed a more than $1 billion lawsuit against the network over its reports on the company's lean, finely textured beef product that critics dubbed "pink slime."
ABC spokeswoman Julie Townsend says in a statement that the network has "reached an amicable resolution of its dispute with the makers" of the product. 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.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The defamation trial against ABC and producer Jim Avila started in June. Neither Townsend nor BPI immediately responded to telephone messages requesting comment.