By Liam DeBoer | BlendrNews.com

Campbell’s vice president was secretly recorded admitting that he won’t eat the company’s own food because it contains 3D-printed chicken and bioengineered meat. That’s where we are—a food system racing toward lab-grown substitutes—while the people inside of it quietly avoid the products they sell.

The recording captures an unfiltered look at how a major North American food brand talks when the public isn’t listening. The audio came from an hour-long tirade by Martin Bally, Campbell’s vice president and chief information security officer, who mocked consumers, bragged about showing up to work high, and dismissed Campbell’s food as unhealthy junk for poor people.

The employee who recorded the comments, Robert Garza, says he reported the behaviour, and 20 days later, he was fired.

Campbell’s insists the rant doesn’t reflect its values, but it exposes something deeper: insiders don’t trust the modern food system yet expect the public to accept it blindly. And that’s where this ties into what’s happening in Canada.

Health Canada recently tried—very quietly—to reclassify cloned beef and pork so they could be sold without labels or a safety review. No press release, but rather a silent policy shift that would have allowed cloned meat into grocery stores with no warning. Only after public backlash did Ottawa pause the plan—not because they wanted to, but because they were caught.

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