Author of How to Prep When You’re Broke and Bloom Where You’re Planted online course Nearly every household in America has at least a few of the ubiquitous red-and-white cans in the pantry, but perhaps not for much longer. I’m talking of course, about Campbell’s soup, a brand so iconic that Andy Warhol captured it in one of his most famous works of pop art. First of all, in a leaked recording, it was revealed that the soups contained lab-grown meat – or “chicken that came from a 3-D printer.” Campbell’s strenuously refutes this comment, though the company does use genetically modified ingredients such as canola, corn, soybeans, and sugar beets. And, just in case that accusation wasn’t enough to make your guts gurgle, it isn’t even the worst thing on that recording. The recording Robert Garza, a cybersecurity analyst for the company, was meeting at a restaurant with Martin Bally, one of Campbell’s vice presidents, to discuss his salary. He secretly recorded statements made by the VP and chief information security officer during a November 2024 meeting. In a rant that lasted over an hour, here are some of the things captured on the recording. Local 4 News in Detroit broadcast portions of the recording. In it, a speaker identified as Bally is heard saying, “We have s**t for f***king poor people. Who buys our s**t? I don’t buy Campbell’s products barely anymore. It’s not healthy now that I know what the f**‘s in it.” He also referenced “bioengineered meat,” saying, “I don’t wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer.” Just in case that isn’t enough to make you sincerely dislike the speaker, he also disparaged some of his coworkers. “F***ing Indians don’t know a f***ing thing,” and “Like they couldn’t think for their f***ing selves,” it said in part. Initially, Garza decided to keep the recording to himself, though he was left with “pure disgust.” However, in January 2025, he reported it to his direct supervisor. Twenty days later, Garza’s employment was terminated. His attorney, Zachary Runyon, says that Garza reported the incident to protect his coworkers, and that he had a spotless record at the company. Runyan said Garza had no record of disciplinary action and had not been written up for performance issues. “He had never had any disciplinary action, they had never written him up for work performance,” Runyan said. Garza also told reporters that he received no follow-up from Human Resources after submitting his complaint. Garza has filed suit against Campbell’s. The lawsuit accuses Campbell Soup Company of maintaining a racially hostile work environment and retaliating against Garza for reporting discriminatory conduct. It asserts claims of employment discrimination and race-based retaliation under Michigan law. Garza says it is “not the case” that The Campbell Soup Company “treats its employees like family.” The Campbell Soup Company denies using lab-grown meat. Campbell’s denies that the company uses lab-grown meat. “We use 100% real chicken in our soups,” James F. Regan, director of external communications at Campbell’s, told Newsweek. “The chicken meat comes from long-trusted, USDA approved U.S. suppliers and meets our high quality standards. All of our soups are made with No Antibiotics Ever chicken meat. Any claims to the contrary are completely false.” A spokesperson for Campbell’s also told Newsweek: “If the recording is legitimate, the comments are unacceptable. They do not reflect our values and the culture of our company. Mr. Bally is temporarily on leave while we conduct an investigation.” What is lab-grown meat? Be prepared to learn how it’s better for you than actual meat from a butchered animal. Farm Forward explains the process. Lab-grown meat, also called cultured or cultivated meat, is grown from the cells of an animal, without any need to slaughter an animal to obtain the meat. The animal’s cells are cultivated in stainless steel drums called bioreactors, which are engineered to encourage replication of cells or growth of biological mass. The products that result from this process have been met with excitement due to their potential to replace the millions of animals being raised on factory farms around the world. Because cultured meat is produced in laboratory environments, it does not suffer from some of the contamination and health issues that plague traditional meat producers, such as antibiotic resistance and foodborne and zoonotic illnesses. And it’s sooooo wonderful, too. Cultured meat is cellularly indistinguishable from the flesh of animals raised on a factory farm. However, there are several aspects of health in which cultured meat surpasses traditionally farmed meat. For example, animal agriculture is already one of the major contributors to antibiotic resistance worldwide, and the use of subtherapeutic antibiotics in animal farming is set to increase further in the coming years. Cellular meat does not require the heavy use of antibiotics, so its production does not contribute to this ongoing public health crisis. Another aspect of cultured meat that makes it healthier than its farm-raised equivalent is its lower likelihood of causing zoonotic diseases. While animal agriculture is likely to be a source of future pandemics caused by illnesses that jump from animals to people, this risk is minimized in cell-cultured agriculture, because there are no animals involved once the cells have been collected. The article lists one of the major “cons” of lab-grown meat as “cultural acceptance.” If you haven’t yet, it might be time to meet a local farmer and fill your freezer with meat you can trust. What are your thoughts? If you purchase canned soup, would you continue to buy from Campbell’s after learning how the VP thinks about the customers and his colleagues? Do you think his views reflect those of others at the company? What are your thoughts on lab-grown meat? Would you eat it knowingly? Let’s talk about it in the comments section. About Daisy Daisy Luther is a coffee-swigging author and blogger who’s traded her air miles for a screen porch, having embraced a more homebody lifestyle after a serious injury. She’s the heart and mind behind The Organic Prepper, a top-tier website where she shares what she’s learned about preparedness, self-reliance, and the pursuit of liberty. With 17 books under her belt, Daisy’s insights on living frugally, surviving tough times, finding some happiness in the most difficult situations, and embracing independence have touched many lives. Her work doesn’t just stay on her site; it’s shared far and wide across alternative media, making her a familiar voice in the community. Known for her adventurous spirit, she’s lived in five different countries and raised two wonderful daughters as a single mom.  Daisy is the best-selling author of 5 traditionally published books, 12 self-published books, and runs a small digital publishing company with PDF guides, printables, and courses at SelfRelianceand Survival.com You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, and X.   The post Campbell’s VP: Soup is “s**t for f***king poor people” with “chicken…from a 3D printer” appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

Following months of political theater, gamesmanship, and grandstanding in the halls of Congress, President Donald Trump has signed into law the bill to release the Epstein files. Political leaders on both sides of the aisle have taken victory laps for transparency and are eagerly awaiting the release of documents to score more political points. But like much of what happens in the halls of Congress these days, the Epstein files law is yet another example of Congress appearing to fix a problem and failing to do so. This law is a red herring and is endemic of the much larger problem of weak congressional oversight. The Epstein legislation is poorly written and contains loopholes large enough to drive a Mack truck through. For example, the legislation applies only to records in the possession of the Justice Department. What about the rest of the U.S. government? There are legitimate questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to the intelligence community. By cabining records on in the possession of the Justice Department, the bill leaves a lot of meat on the bone.  Second, it has no enforcement mechanism if the executive branch refuses to comply. It doesn’t even define what compliance looks like. Congress has already written legislation to force transparency without an enforcement mechanism. It failed miserably.  In 2023, Congress unanimously passed the COVID-19 Origin Act, which required the Biden administration to declassify “any and all” information related to the origins of the COVID-19. Under the statute the only redactions allowed were to protect “sources and methods” and, like the Epstein bill, mandated the delivery of reports to Congress by a certain date. The Biden administration ignored the deadline and produced a paltry five-page report that failed to provide the information mandated to be released by the law.  What did Congress do next? The authors of the legislation wrote an angry letter. In response, the Biden administration wrote a letter of their own saying they complied with the spirit and letter of the law. The issue died out, and the American people are still searching for answers on what started the pandemic that took over one million American lives.  The Epstein bill gives more discretion to the executive branch to determine what information gets released than the COVID-19 Origin Act did. It borrows privacy provisions from the Freedom of Information Act that have been abused for decades and used to invalidly redact information. It allows the withholding of classified information and records that would “jeopardize” an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution. But it presumably leaves the Justice Department the discretion to determine what records meet that standard. And let’s not forget that the Justice Department just opened further investivations into Epstein-related matters. Finally, the bill implores the attorney general to declassify information “to the maximum extent possible.”  That’s not forced transparency, that’s begging. Without an enforcement mechanism, the law simply leaves too much discretion to the executive branch to determine what information gets released. Regardless of who is in power, the default position of the Executive Branch has been to fight transparency at all costs. Passing a law is meaningless because there is nothing Congress can do when the Executive Branch flouts the law. A standard congressional subpoena, if enforced, would have had more teeth than this. Failing to comply with a congressional subpoena can lead to either civil or criminal contempt proceedings. Subpoena recipients have personal liability, and the risk of jail time or fines usually compels cooperation with Congress when it wields its powers in this manner. What makes this all the more infuriating is that this isn’t my conjecture—it’s demonstrable fact. The only actual Epstein transparency to date has come from House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer issuing and enforcing bipartisan subpoenas and conducting actual witness depositions and transcribed interviews. Comer and his staff are doing their jobs. And doing them well. But it appears no one else is.  Strong congressional oversight as a general proposition has gone the way of the dodo. Save for a few brave and aggressive committee chairmen, congressional oversight has become a joke. Few members are willing to roll up their sleeves and do the hard, unglamorous work of digging through records and uncovering the truth for the American people. We now find ourselves in a situation where Congress only exerts itself in the name of transparency when both sides think they can score political points with the release of particular records. Committee staffs on both sides of the aisle are now eagerly awaiting the first release of records under the Epstein law so they can find documents connecting their political enemies to Epstein. Epstein’s victims may get some closure, and the American public will probably learn some new information about what he did. But it is painfully obvious that the entire spectacle surrounding the Epstein files and the driving force behind the passage of this law is because both sides think they will be able to cherry pick documents to bludgeon the other side with. Any political victory by either side will be a Pyrrhic victory at best. The Epstein law should not be necessary. Congress should have obtained and released the Epstein files under its oversight powers years ago. This ordeal is a symptom of a much larger problem that only gets worse with this latest showing of congressional political theater.  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Epstein Bill is No Win for Transparency appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! and NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers were the only late night comedy shows to tape original episodes on Monday, and both used the occasion to prove that Friday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani proved that the latter isn’t the scary monster that conservatives have portrayed him as. At the same time, the duo argued the meeting also proves that Trump normally works with people who could be considered “AI-generated human vomits” or “charmless goons.” Kimmel was up first, and he saw hypocrisy in how some conservatives reacted to the meeting, “After weeks of painting Mamdani as the fourth horseman of the Trumpocalypse, they didn't know what to do with themselves. This is how upside-down this crop of MAGAteers is. They are mad at Trump, some of them furious with him because he was friendly with the new mayor of New York. Last week, he had a big, celebratory dinner for the Saudi prince whose goons dismembered a columnist for The Washington Post. No problem! This: too much.”     Claiming that Trump was smitten by Mamdani, Kimmel contrasted Mamdani with the people in Trump’s everyday orbit, “Mamdani shows up. He's this young, handsome, charismatic guy who came out of nowhere and won big in the most important city in the world. Trump's hometown, no less. He walks in. He smiles. He shakes Trump's hand. Trump looks over in the corner. He sees JD Vance all sweaty and eager. He sees Stephen Miller sucking on his pinkies. He looks around at all these weird, unattractive, AI-generated human vomits in his office. And he's like, ‘Why can't I have this Mamdani around?’” Later on NBC, Meyers broke out his Trump voice to claim, “And you know what's cool about him is that he's cool, but he doesn't act like he's cool, you know? He's, like, nice to the jocks and the nerds.” Like Kimmel, Meyers also hyped the idea that the meeting could normalize the radical Mamdani, “Seriously, though, like, what the [bleep] is happening? Either Zohran charmed Trump into embracing democratic socialism and undercutting every scare tactic the right has weaponized against him for the past six months, or the molly Trump took right before the meeting kicked in.”     After another Trump impression where he sounded more like a psychedelic-using hippy, Meyers claimed, “I've never seen Trump this smitten before. This is a reminder he doesn't work with a single cool person. He is surrounded by so many charmless goons that the first time he got to hang out with someone who had a little charisma, he swooned like he was on a date with the varsity quarterback.” For Meyers, such a response could be understandable, “You'd have stars in your eyes too if you spent every day of your life with joyless gargoyles like Stephen Miller and JD Vance and then you met a 34-year-old social media star who rapped in a halal cart and once appeared in an actual Disney movie. I bet before they were on camera, Trump was fully running down his own administration to Mamdani.” Once again, Meyers broke out the Trump voice, “"It's so nice to be with a fellow cool cat. You should see who I have to hang out with. You ever meet JD Vance? Piece of advice, try not to. And Stephen Miller, my god, I've started wearing Depends because every time he walks into a room I'm so scared I [bleep] myself. Hey, you want to go up on the roof? The roof is cool. We go up on the roof. It's so cool. You'll love it because you're cool." The politeness of the Trump-Mamdani meeting aside, the latter is still a radical, and no amount of name-calling from the late night comedy shows can obscure that fact. Here are transcripts for the November 24-taped shows: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 11/24/2025 11:40 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: After weeks of painting Mamdani as the fourth horseman of the Trumpocalypse, they didn't know what to do with themselves. This is how upside-down this crop of MAGAteers is. They are mad at Trump, some of them furious with him because he was friendly with the new mayor of New York. Last week, he had a big, celebratory dinner for the Saudi prince whose goons dismembered a columnist for The Washington Post. No problem! This: too much. I've got news for these guys. Anyone who was surprised that Trump got along with Mamdani should not be surprised. Trump loves when famous people come to visit. Mamdani is suddenly this big name. This big star, he calls the white house and asks for a meeting. Trump's like, "He wants a meeting? With me?"  Mamdani shows up. He's this young, handsome, charismatic guy who came out of nowhere and won big in the most important city in the world. Trump's hometown, no less. He walks in. He smiles. He shakes Trump's hand. Trump looks over in the corner. He sees JD Vance all sweaty and eager. He sees Stephen Miller sucking on his pinkies. He looks around at all these weird, unattractive, AI-generated human vomits in his office. And he's like, "Why can't I have this Mamdani around?” It's the classic opposites attract love story, and Hollywood is taking notice. *** NBC Late Night with Seth Meyers 11/25/2025 12:45 AM ET SETH MEYERS: [Trump voice] "And you know what's cool about him is that he's cool, but he doesn't act like he's cool, you know? He's, like, nice to the jocks and the nerds." Seriously, though, like, what the [bleep] is happening? Either Zohran charmed Trump into embracing democratic socialism and undercutting every scare tactic the right has weaponized against him for the past six months, or the molly Trump took right before the meeting kicked in. [Trump voice] "You know, I just love this guy because I love everyone. I love all of you, the press. I love life. It's like I've always said, 'love is the answer.' You know, I remember a unicorn came up to me, big unicorn. Star-shaped tears pouring from his sparkling magical eyes down onto the rainbow he was riding on and he said to me, he said, 'Mr. President, sir, love is love is love.' and I said, 'it's so true.'" I've never seen Trump this smitten before. This is a reminder he doesn't work with a single cool person. He is surrounded by so many charmless goons that the first time he got to hang out with someone who had a little charisma, he swooned like he was on a date with the varsity quarterback. You'd have stars in your eyes too if you spent every day of your life with joyless gargoyles like Stephen Miller and JD Vance and then you met a 34-year-old social media star who rapped in a halal cart and once appeared in an actual Disney movie. I bet before they were on camera, Trump was fully running down his own administration to Mamdani. [Trump voice] "It's so nice to be with a fellow cool cat. You should see who I have to hang out with. You ever meet JD Vance? Piece of advice, try not to. And Stephen Miller, my god, I've started wearing Depends because every time he walks into a room I'm so scared I [bleep] myself. Hey, you want to go up on the roof? The roof is cool. We go up on the roof. It's so cool. You'll love it because you're cool."

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