{"id":153670,"date":"2025-11-25T23:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/153670\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:10:07","slug":"campbells-executive-martin-bally-claims-brands-products-are-for-poor-people-company-hits-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/153670\/","title":{"rendered":"Campbell\u2019s executive Martin Bally claims brand\u2019s products are for \u2018poor people\u2019, company hits back"},"content":{"rendered":"
Attorney General of Florida James Uthmeier said the state\u2019s Consumer Protection will be investigating allegations that Campbell\u2019s meat is lab-grown.<\/p>\n
The Campbell\u2019s Company is now being investigated by the state of Florida following Bally’s comments. Photo \/ Scott Olson, Getty Images<\/p>\n
But the company has hit back through a statement, insisting Bally\u2019s comments are \u201cnot only inaccurate \u2013 they are patently absurd\u201d.<\/p>\n
Campbell\u2019s said Bally is merely an \u201cIT person, who has nothing to do with how we make our food\u201d and denied using bioengineered meat.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll our soups are made with \u2018No Antibiotics Ever\u2019 chicken meat, meaning we don\u2019t allow antibiotics to be added to the feed, water or any commercial vaccines used by our chicken suppliers.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the Independent, the recording is part of a lawsuit for wrongful termination brought by Garza, who alleges he was fired from his role as a security analyst when he showed the file to a supervisor.<\/p>\n
He told Click On Detroit he had started secretly taping Bally\u2019s one-hour-and-15-minute rant because he had an \u201cinstinct that something wasn\u2019t right\u201d.<\/p>\n
The pair were set to discuss his salary when the IT boss began complaining about the quality of the company\u2019s soup and describing Indian employees as stupid.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe thinks he\u2019s a C-level executive at a Fortune 500 company and he can do whatever he wants because he\u2019s an executive,\u201d Garza said.<\/p>\n
Bally has been put on leave while Campbell\u2019s investigates the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attorney General of Florida James Uthmeier said the state\u2019s Consumer Protection will be investigating allegations that Campbell\u2019s meat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,192,1863,102259,650,138,74701,9525,2562,1656,3938,51004,564,2082,4508,5133,111,139,69,384,29848,3383,51005,20492,376],"class_list":["post-153670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-are","tag-back","tag-bally","tag-brands","tag-business","tag-campbells","tag-caught","tag-claims","tag-company","tag-executive","tag-expletiveladen","tag-food","tag-for","tag-hits","tag-martin","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-poor","tag-products","tag-rant","tag-slamming","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}