ABC News, Beef Products reached an undisclosed settlement in defamation lawsuit this past June.

Terms of the settlement are confidential.

ABC news anchor Diane Sawyer defended reporter Jim Avila’s coverage of LFTB.

Lean fine-textured beef is beef, and not slime, she says.

A South Dakota judge refused to throw out a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit over the network’s coverage of BPI’s lean finely textured beef, which was also dubbed “pink slime.”