Campbell’s Soup Exec Admits On Leaked Tape That He Wouldn’t Serve Their Products To His Own Family

Yet here we are: in a leaked recording that’s now making the rounds online, a Campbell’s Soup Company executive allegedly rants for over an hour about the quality of the very products his company sells.

A recently filed lawsuit alleges that an executive at Campbell Soup Company made disparaging comments about the company’s own products, its customers, and its Indian employees during a meeting originally intended to discuss salary with a former employee.

According to the complaint filed in Michigan by Robert Garza, who was hired as a cybersecurity analyst in September 2024, he met with Martin Bally, identified as a vice president and chief information/security officer at Campbell’s, in November 2024. The meeting was supposed to be about Garza’s compensation, but instead devolved into what Garza describes as a recorded “tirade.”

The Rant Caught on Tape

In media reports of the recording, Bally allegedly said: “We have sh*t for f**king poor people. Who buys our sh*t? I don’t buy Campbell’s products barely anymore. It’s not healthy now that I know what the f‘s in it.” And: “Bioengineered meat...I don’t wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3-D printer.” He is also alleged to have used derogatory language toward Indian employees, saying things like: “F**king Indians don’t know anything…they couldn’t think for their f***ing selves.”

The recording reportedly ran more than an hour and fifteen minutes.

Garza alleges that after he reported the incident internally in January 2025, he was terminated on January 30. He asserts he had no prior disciplinary actions and that the termination was retaliatory.

Campbell’s responded with a statement saying that if the recorded comments are legitimate, they “are unacceptable and do not reflect our values.” The company placed Bally on temporary leave while conducting an investigation.

The Tape Is Wild, But the Subtext Is Worse

Most people already know that Big Food cuts a lot of corners; think of the Skittles titanium dioxide lawsuits or Kraft’s “cheese product” controversies, the list goes on and on. Americans have long been suspicious, and this new revelation should pour gasoline on the fire.

Hearing a top executive openly trash his own products? Products that millions of families serve their kids? There's something pretty nefarious about hearing someone so close to the source admit he wouldn’t feed the stuff to people he loves. Even if he exaggerated, even if he was ranting: if an insider recoils from what’s inside the cans, why should the rest of us pretend it’s fine? Consumers are told to “trust the label,” while executives allegedly avoid the very foods their companies produce.

How Big Food Hurts Our Health

Ultra-processed ingredients, chemical additives, industrial seed oils, emulsifiers, artificial dyes, and stabilizers all shape a food system designed for shelf life rather than optimal nutrition. These aren’t neutral tradeoffs. They’re linked to rising rates of metabolic disease, autoimmune issues, chronic inflammation, and anxiety disorders, all conditions that have exploded in the same era our food has become more engineered and less recognizable.

And because women live at the crossroads of hormonal fluctuations, they’re often more sensitive to the hidden costs of low-quality food. Additives and endocrine disruptors can interfere with cycle regularity, fertility, thyroid function, postpartum recovery, and mood stability. Combine that with the reality that women handle most grocery shopping and family meal planning, and Big Food’s negligence becomes a double hit: their health suffers directly, and they’re the ones responsible for navigating the minefield on behalf of everyone else.

Enter MAHA: Companies Either Adapt or Get Exposed

MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) is the natural backlash to decades of declining food quality and rising corporate arrogance towards its customers. Americans have watched ingredient lists balloon into unpronounceable paragraphs, seen artificial dyes banned overseas but slipped into U.S. products, and learned that the cheapest foods on shelves are often the most manipulated.

The movement calls for something basic and overdue: real ingredients, clear labels, and companies that stop cutting corners and deliver real food.