Todd Schnitt actually had the smoking gun on this, but nobody carried it.
He looked around for the most educated person he could find on consumer beef and found a Phd that was the “go to” guy for the industry, and interviewed him on his show. In the midst of the interview the man revealed ABC had interviewed him on “pink slime”, but when he wasn’t giving the answers the reporter wanted, ABC hung up on him.
This is the post I made last month: “They were trying to get to the bottom of the “pink slime” business and they asked for the name of the best expert in the meat industry they could find. They got in touch with this guy on the phone (David Theno), and he said the reporter who was covering it for ABC had also called him, and was asking him about the product for the ABC news story.”
“Halfway through the interview, the ABC reporter Jim Avila hung up on the expert. The expert called him back, and the Avila told him, the expert wasn’t saying what he wanted for his story, and he the expert was just a tool of the food industry. And hung up on him AGAIN.”
“So Schnitt’s show called Avila, and he hung up on them. I heard later Avila denied it, but when I heard Theno talking about it, I believed him - he seemed unrehearsed and astounded about it. It’s an incredible story, and totally uncovered in the media. I’ve been able to find very little about it, except for a few tweets.”
And now this vile reporter, Avila, has destroyed an industry, and caused over 600 people to lose their jobs, AND (according to Theno) destroyed the use of a food product that actually INCREASED food safety. May he burn in the hell he has visited on many innocent people.
Yet probably 1/2 the people here on FR believe the BS. Kind of lets you know the effect MSM still has, even on those who should know better.