The Campbell's Co. says it has fired an executive who called the company’s products “highly” processed food for “poor people.”

Martin Bally, the company’s vice president of information technology, was recorded making the statements in a November 2024 meeting with Robert Garza, a former cybersecurity analyst for the company. Garza, who made the audio recording, says he was unfairly fired in January in a racial discrimination and racial harassment suit he filed on Nov. 20 in Michigan's Wayne County Circuit Court.

“We have (expletive) that’s for poor people,” says a voice – which Campbell's now says is Bally – on the recording, a copy of which was shared with USA TODAY. “I don’t buy (expletive) Campbell’s products barely anymore.”

The person went on to say that when he looks at a can of C

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