{"id":406901,"date":"2025-11-26T21:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/406901\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T21:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:55:11","slug":"campbells-fired-the-vp-recorded-saying-its-meat-came-from-a-3d-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/406901\/","title":{"rendered":"Campbell\u2019s fired the VP recorded saying its meat \u2018came from a 3D printer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cA recent video contained false comments about our ingredients,\u201d Campbell\u2019s writes. \u201cThe comments heard on the recording about our food are not only inaccurate, they are absurd. We do not use lab-grown chicken or any form of artificial or bioengineered meat in our soups.\u201d It adds that the company only uses chicken from \u201creputable\u201d suppliers in the US that meet USDA standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The audio was released as part of a lawsuit filed against Campbell\u2019s by a former employee, who claims to have recorded a conversation with IT VP Martin Bally. During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ANsQZDVBFLw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the conversation<\/a>, the person purported to be Bally makes racist remarks, while calling Campbell\u2019s food \u201cbioengineered\u201d and for \u201cpoor people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cEven in a can of soup, I look at it \u2014 and look at bioengineered meat,\u201d the person in the recording says. \u201cI don\u2019t want to eat a fucking piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer, do you?\u201d Campbell\u2019s later updated its statement to say that it believes \u201cthe voice on the recording is in fact Martin Bally,\u201d adding that he is \u201cno longer employed\u201d by the company as of November 25th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><strong>Update, November 26th:<\/strong> Added that Bally is no longer employed by Campbell\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA recent video contained false comments about our ingredients,\u201d Campbell\u2019s writes. \u201cThe comments heard on the recording about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":406902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,990,50,159,242,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-406901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-food","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}