A senior executive at Campbell Soup Company who was caught disparaging its products as containing unhealthy mystery meat and said its customers are “f–king poor people” is now facing a lawsuit from a whistleblower employee who secretly recorded him and was later fired. So is the 155-year-old soup company.
Plaintiff Robert Garza had been a security analyst at the company since September 2024 when he met with Campbell’s Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Martin Bally in November 2024, ostensibly to discuss his salary, according to the employment discrimination lawsuit filed in Wayne County Circuit Court in Michigan on Nov. 20, and obtained by Atlanta Black Star.
But Bally instead launched into a scathing critique of the company’s products, customers and employees, making

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