I remember seeing the Food Lion episode of PrimeTime Live as a small child and being horrified. It’s now in my casebook:
Food Lion, Inc. v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., 194 F.3d 505 (4th Cir. N.C. 1999)
Two ABC television reporters, after using false resumes to get jobs at Food Lion, Inc. supermarkets, secretly videotaped what appeared to be unwholesome food handling practices.
“Unwholesome” is an understatement:
In early 1992 producers of ABC’s PrimeTime Live program received a report alleging that Food Lion stores were engaging in unsanitary meat-handling practices. The allegations were that Food Lion employees ground out-of-date beef together with new beef, bleached rank meat to remove its odor, and re-dated (and offered for sale) products not sold before their printed expiration date. The producers recognized that these allegations presented the potential for a powerful news story, and they decided to conduct an undercover investigation of Food Lion.