Hope you weren’t planning on having Campbell’s soup at your Thanksgiving dinner.
Honestly it’s been a while since I’ve had the iconic red and white labeled soup, but growing up I pretty much lived on their chicken noodle soup, and from what I can remember it was delicious.
The company is one of the largest processed food companies in the United States, with the parent company owning not only the soup brand but also other iconic food brands like Pepperidge Farm, Swanson, V8, Prego pasta sauce, Pace salsa, and even Snyder pretzels, which also makes those bright orange Lance sandwich crackers.
Overall, Campbell’s reported revenue of over $10.3 billion for the fiscal year ending in August 2025, which is a lot of soup being eaten on a daily basis.
But do we really know what’s in all that soup?
A few years ago, Campbell’s joined a campaign against a California law that made it mandatory for food producers to label products that contained genetically modified ingredients, before ultimately dropping its opposition a couple years later and announcing that they would indeed be labeling their products that contained GMOs.
Recently though, the quality of their products has been called into question – and disgusted the internet – again after a recording surfaced of a Campbell’s employee talking about the ingredients in their soup.
The secret recording was taken by Robert Garza, a former Campbell’s Soup Company employee who said he was fired after complaining about Vice President Martin Bally. Garza has since filed a lawsuit claiming the company retaliated him for his complaints after Bally was caught making racist remarks and trashing the company’s product and customers.
In the recording, Bally can reportedly be heard saying that their soup contains “bioengineered meat” from a “3D printer,” saying their products are for “poor people.”
“We have sh-t for f–king poor people. Who buys out sh-t? I don’t buy f–king Campbell’s products barely anymore. It’s not healthy, now that I know what the f–k’s in it.
Even in a can of soup, I look at it, bioengineered meat. I don’t want to eat a f–king, a piece of chicken that came from a 3-D printer.”
And he was also caught making racist remarks:
“F–king Indians, they don’t know a f–king thing. They couldn’t think for their f–king selves.”
Campbell’s says they have placed Bally on leave as they investigate the recording, but the damage may have already been done because across social media people are disgusted by Bally’s comments about the product:
And the Attorney General for the state of Florida, which bans lab-grown meat, says they are investigating the claims made by Ball in the recording:
Now, I don’t think anybody who eats any processed food is under the impression that it’s actually “healthy.” Anything that sits on a shelf for years and is still fine to eat has to be packed full of all kinds of stuff that we really don’t know about. But 3D printed chicken? Talk about ruining my childhood…
