Campbell's fires executive who was recorded saying company's products are for 'poor people'

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Your post reminds me of when I was in court, fighting for my client.

We were fighting to prevent her parental rights from being terminated. Her five children were in foster care in an upper middle class household while she was below lower middle class.

And her kids preferred the benefits of swimming lessons, heated car seats, lots of toys that the foster parents provided. And the foster parents desperately wanted to adopt all five of them.

So when it was time for the kids to testify to the Judge about the alleged abuse and neglect they sustained at the hands of their mother, soup was brought up. Yes, soup.

The nine year old daughter boldly propounded that her mother neglected her by the mere provision of canned soup. The Judge wanted to hear more. The soup was perfectly edible as it came directly from the can into the saucepan and into a bowl. But the daughter really wanted to stay with the foster family, so she really laid it on. Her foster mother made soup from scratch. Low sodium, low fat, and delicious.

I sat at the table, thinking WTF. THAT'S neglect? Then there's a whole bunch of kids being neglected in America.

Fortunately, the Judge wasn't buying what the daughter was selling as essentially, that's all she had to use.

So, to have the CEO of Campbell's make such statements, about the stuff that gives him his bread-and-butter, makes me roll my eyes all over again.