Campbell's executive says products are for poor people, mocks Indians, lawsuit claims

A senior executive at the Campbell’s Co. has been placed on leave after a lawsuit filed by a former employee alleges he disparaged the company’s products and made offensive remarks about “poor people” and Indian co-workers.

Martin Bally, a vice president and chief information security officer at the food giant, said during a meeting that Campbell’s products were “highly process food” for “poor people,” and that Indian employees were “idiots” whom he disliked working with, according to the employment discrimination complaint filed by Robert Garza, a former cybersecurity analyst for the company. Garza said in the lawsuit that he was fired after telling a supervisor about the comments and that he planned to report them to the human resources department.

Garza’s attorney provided The Washington Post with a lengthy recording of a conversation in which Bally can allegedly be heard complaining about an incident during which employees couldn’t be reached in a technical emergency. “F---ing Indians,” he said. “They couldn’t think for their f---ing selves.” He also can allegedly be heard suggesting that the company’s soups possibly used “bioengineered meat.”

“I don’t buy … Campbell’s products anymore,” the person Garza alleges is Bally says in the recording. “I don’t want to eat a … piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer.”

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Typical corporate executive asshole.