You Can’t “Pink Slime” America Twice: Why ABC News is Struggling to Re-create a Food Safety Scare with Imported Shrimp
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May 25, 2012
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Tags: ABC News, Americans, antibiotics, domestic, food safety, imports, Jim Avila, media, pink slime, shrimp
Can you slime American twice? You can try, according to Jim Avila and ABC News. Attempting to re-create its journalistic success from the “pink slime” story, ABC News recently ran a short segment on foreign shrimp and antibiotics, claiming that, in a recent random sampling, trace levels of 3 banned antibiotics were found in imported shrimp. The story, reported by ABC’s Jim Avila (who also reported on “Pink Slime” this year), states that the majority of shrimp consumed in the United States “is raised in … READ MORE
