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Sawyer and others felt the need to engage in sensational journalism without checking the facts, Big Media/Veggie Left/Anti-Meat campaign

Letter from a BPI Wife, Nurse, and Mother of Two Healthy Kids—On BPI Lean Textured Beef

By William Kevin Stoos ——--April 4, 2012

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People like Diane Sawyer and other ivory tower reporters who breathe the rarefied air of the national news media and decide to use their awesome power to smugly denounce an industry which has provided quality beef products to the American public for three decades now, care little about the human and economic consequences of their actions. As a result of the misinformation purveyed by Sawyer, Jamie Oliver, James Avila and others, Beef Products, Inc.--which has won safety awards for its product, has provided millions of pounds of quality beef each year to American consumers and whose product has never once been subject to recall or injured any consumer--has idled three plants and is operating at less than full capacity at a fourth.
Worse yet, thousands of management and blue collar employees face the prospect of lay offs due to the de facto boycott of BPI products which has resulted from the defamation of this company at the hands of Sawyer and others. In fairness to the many folks who are directly affected by the malicious campaign against this company, it is only right that we consider the opinion of a woman whose husband works at BPI--a registered nurse and mother who is raising two vivacious children, and the welfare of whose family is on the line right now. I asked this nice lady--who is a neighbor of mine--for permission to reprint her letter, which she penned out of frustration at the media campaign which has brought her family and that of thousands of others to the brink of economic disruption...all because Sawyer and others felt the need to engage in sensational journalism without checking the facts. In the hopes that others might consider the opinion of the folks down here where the rubber meets the road, I reprint her letter in full:
"Dear family, friends, neighbors, When you read this I hope you find this as a credible source as it is coming from me to you. If you do not know me I hope you will find your friend who has sent this to you credible also. Please read and pass this on to everyone in your address book.I could get on Facebook, but I do not have an account as many of you well knowAs you all know Beef Products Inc.(BPI) is the company my husband works for.BPI is the company which produces Lean Finely Textured Beef which recently has been given the name "pink slime". ABC news and social media has attacked my husband's company with false, distorted facts, and are not telling the complete truth.It may not look appealing like a steak, but it is 100% beef protein! It is very sad to see comments on blogs that are so false, and those false, misleading comments down the line become known as the "truth". Lean finely textured beef is beef, it is safe; "it just has an image problem". I was so proud as a mother and a registered nurse that school lunches were going to use this product; the school lunch hamburgers with BPI productare95% lean. A hamburger in the school lunch program without BPI's product is an 80% lean hamburger.My children were going to be eating a leaner, healthier hamburger! Please take into account the meat and food science that this product is backed by. Technology has brought us from the large Apple computers, to bag phones to iphones. Technology has brought us equipment to better diagnose diseases, improved health interventions and improved the outcomes for healthcare patients. Technology has also brought food production that is safer, with less waste--these have all been based on science. I am a mother of two redheaded children. My daughter is a spunky soon-to-be 13 year-old who is very wise and mature for her age as many friends will attest to. My son is a 7 year-old comedian who is always laughing and smiling and loves the dirt. We eat hamburger with BPI's product in it because we believe and know the product is safe. BPI produces approximately 800 million pounds of lean finely textured beef a year.That means that Lean Finely Textured Beef has been in more than 20 billion meals a year...never once being linked in a food recall.Think about that....20 billion meals! BPI has been producing this product for well over 20 years. Not once did ABC or Jamie Oliver set foot in one of BPI's plants--I have. The media has exploited BPI to grasp the public's attention for ratings. Well, those ratings are going to cost 3000 people their jobs! It cannot get anymore personal--my husband is one of those people! Isn't it ironic that the main theme for the Presidential election is "jobs and the economy?" Again, it is very sad and disheartening to watch reports, comments, and blogs posted that are off target and not based on science but instead, the"ick" factor!Watch these links below and educate yourself because you cannot count on other distorted sources. Again, I am not saying that lean finely textured beef is pretty, but we as consumers should value that animal protein, making hamburger safer,whatever texture it might have. Oh,it is not slimy either because it is 94% lean Fat is what makes meat slimy. Food for thought: 800 million pounds/year has been removed from the market. How will we replace that 800 million pounds of nutritious protein and how will that affect the consumer? This will not only affect my family directly, but it will ultimately affect you as the consumer as well. $$$$ As a society we tend to like to voice our opinion only when we disagree with something--I am guilty of that. But we need those who agree with science and not emotion to speak up. Please call and tell them you want a choice in safer hamburger. Tell them you want your "pink slime" back!! Walmart Corp--1-800-Walmart Sam's Corp-- 1-888-746-7726 Kroger--1-866-221-4141 Supervalue--952-828-4000

Hyvee--1-800-289-8343

McDonald's--1-800-244-6227

Burger King--(305)-378-3000 Publix--800-242-1227

Safeway--1-877-Safeway Love, Angela"

If you want to stand up for the little guy and against the Big Media/Veggie Left/Anti-Meat campaign to put this company out of business, please call and register your support of this company and people like Angela and her family. Your call and thousands of others can help blunt the attack by Diane Sawyer and her cohorts, save thousands of jobs, and will register your complaint against irresponsible, hyperbolic reporting which seeks only sensational headlines and could care less about the truth. © 2012 William Kevin Stoos for CANADA FREE PRESS

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Copyright © 2020 William Kevin Stoos
William Kevin Stoos (aka Hugh Betcha) is a writer, book reviewer, and attorney, whose feature and cover articles have appeared in the Liguorian, Carmelite Digest, Catholic Digest, Catholic Medical Association Ethics Journal, Nature Conservancy Magazine, Liberty Magazine, Social Justice Review, Wall Street Journal Online and other secular and religious publications.  He is a regular contributing author for The Bread of Life Magazine in Canada. His review of Shadow World, by COL. Robert Chandler, propelled that book to best seller status. His book, The Woodcarver (]And Other Stories of Faith and Inspiration) © 2009, William Kevin Stoos (Strategic Publishing Company)—a collection of feature and cover stories on matters of faith—was released in July of 2009. It can be purchased though many internet booksellers including Amazon, Tower, Barnes and Noble and others. Royalties from his writings go to support the Carmelites. He resides in Wynstone, South Dakota.


“His newest book, The Wind and the Spirit (Stories of Faith and Inspiration)” was released in 2011 with all the author’s royalties go to support the Carmelite sisters.”

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