GASTON COUNTY, N.C. — Beef served in lunch line at Gaston County Schools might contain the notoriously named “pink slime.” Or it might not. Gaston County Schools Nutrition Director Frank Fields said ...

The world is facing some of the highest beef prices to date, thanks to the double whammy of increased demand and drought-thinned cattle herds. This would normally be an opportune time for ...

When we talked about “pink slime” beef in grocery stores and schools earlier this week, the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction said no Washington public schools are serving the ...

WASHINGTON, March 15, 2012 –Reacting to a social media storm of criticism over the use of "lean finely textured beef" USDA officials say they will offer more alternative ground beef products to ...

(CBS/AP) Beef Products Inc. (BPI), the embattled company behind the meat product colorfully dubbed "pink slime" will shutter processing plants in three states this month because of the controversy ...

NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D. - Beef Products Inc. sued ABC News, Inc. for defamation Thursday over its coverage of a meat product that critics dub "pink slime," claiming the network damaged the company by ...

Safeway Inc, the No. 2 supermarket operator, will stop buying ground beef with the ammonia-treated beef filler critics call "pink slime" because of widespread customer concern, the company said on ...

Opening statements in what could be the largest defamation case in U.S. history are set to begin Monday in a South Dakota courtroom. In suing ABC News for its coverage of a widely used processed-meat ...

Five weeks before the Internet went mad over the presence of “pink slime” in ground beef across the U.S., the product’s creator was being inducted into the Nebraska Business Hall of Fame. It was Feb.

Top elected officials in key beef-producing states Thursday toured the sole remaining plant in the country where "lean, finely textured beef" — otherwise known as "pink slime" — is manufactured. They ...