'Pink slime' lawsuit for Jamie Oliver, ABC and blogger

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

12 December 2012 Last updated at 22:46 GMT

A worker laid off by a US beef processing company has sued celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, a food blogger and ABC News, saying their use of the term "pink slime" helped him lose his job.

Bruce Smith, 58, was one of about 750 people fired by Beef Products Inc, maker of lean finely textured beef.

He is seeking $70,000 (£43,000) in damages, saying the company and workers were "maligned" by the "unfair" phrase.

The firm closed three plants and fired workers at its South Dakota office.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20701981

[onehandle]

1. Normally I would back the worker.

Normally.

[hobbit709]

2. Good luck buddy.

[htuttle]

3. What did he used to call it?

I mean while at work in the factory...not what the marketing term was.

[Kalidurga]

4. F the food product non-food producers...

I am sick and tired of the contamination of our food supply. People are getting sicker and I don't think it is a coincidence that I started to get better after I stopped eating meat. I am pretty sure growth hormones and second hand antibiotics are not things we should be ingesting. And as I type there are companies that are spending millions to keep the truth off of food labels.

[denverbill]

5. Calling it pink slime simply drew attention to what it actually was.

And what it actually was was scraps of beef fat which had fallen on the floor or were otherwise inedible being ground up, sanitized with ammonia, heated to remove some fat and pureed into a pink slime, the mixed with actual ground beef to hide it.

I could call hamburger pink slime, but people wouldn't stop buying it because they know it's not ammonia laced fat scraps.

[Poll_Blind]

11. Word up. +1 nt

PB

[tomm2thumbs]

6. to be fair, 'pink goo' was already being used

I'm sure he'll get some satisfaction reading legal briefs and counting his toes

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. Which worker is that? The CEO?

The entire pink slime industry deserves to collapse and never resuscitate.

[Laurian]

8. Give me a freakin' break! He should feel

guilty for not exposing the truth about that garbage himself. Suing because the consumer found out that the industry he worked for was passing off crap as food is nuts.

[SoapBox]

9. Hey Mr. Asshole...you should sue the company for making that shit, in the first place!

...and then you should be force fed that SLIME.

[TwilightGardener]

10. I do feel bad for him. Tough to be 58 and lose what

was probably a decent job in South Dakota. The product was awful, but they had buyers--I blame the buyers most of all.

[SemperEadem]

12. consumers didn't know that that was going into the meat

until the expose came to light.

[DeSwiss]

13. So he's mad we stopped buying the shitty crap he produced made from:

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- Hey, screw you buddy.

K&R

[PopeOxycontinI]

14. Lips and assholes...

just like uncle Roman said.