Mmmm Mmmm Good? - Campbell's soup VP says they use bio engineered meat!

[Boxerfan]

I am not shocked but dayummm-what a admission from the top management & just before Thanksgiving. Thank goodness it was caught on tape.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It's made with Soylent Green?

[TheBlackAdder]

17. Made with 100% 'Chickin Meet.' Dang, I should have read that label better.

[Silent Type]

2. Well, that's good to know. Never been sure what those beef chunks really are in my vegetable beef soup.

[awesomerwb1]

3. All these canned soups suck

It's not the meat. Absolutely terrible as is imho.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. not sure that a CSO running his mouth in a lunch meeting is the most reliable source for that allegation but ok

[stumpysbear]

5. Bioengineering is good for the environment

This whole GMO foods issue is a giant boogeyman

[HAB911]

6. Slurping the soup was a nice touch

all canned soup sucks to me, even though insanely high salt content, they are tasteless and I have to amend it with something

[Wonder Why]

7. Worse, the bioengineered meat is in the Tomato Soup!

[mr715]

19. "Tom"ato Soup nt

[John Coktosten]

8. Must be nuts or poor

I've always loved Campbell's soup. It's the gold standard to me. Oh well.

[Bettie]

16. I make soup all the time

but I use Campbell's tomato if I'm having soup and grilled cheese.

[flvegan]

9. Campbell's Brawndo Soup with Frankenmeat! Now with more sodium! n/t

[VGNonly]

10. Campbells violated the Clean Water Act

over 5000 times in a 6 year period at a Napoleon OH facility. They polluted the Maumee River and subsequently Lake Erie.

Mmmm Mmmm BAD!

[John Coktosten]

20. I enforce the CWA in the state where I live.

Of the literally 1000s of CWA permitted sites we regulate, almost ALL have been issued a violation of some kind at some point in time. A violation could be as simple as missing a sampling of dissolved oxygen or pH during the required monitoring period. It could also be something much worse as well.
I'm not trying to absolve Campbell's of these 5000 violations. I have no idea what they are for. I just wanted to give you all some information on what could or could not be the scope and severity of what a CWA violation may be.
Frequently, facilities with a huge number of violations like this are in reality not guilty of committing as much environmental damage as the impression would give. Our automated system flags violations for all kinds of things such as data entry errors, etc. What I'm trying to impart is that as regulators, we're closely watching for things like this. A facility would never ever be allowed to just keep violating to the tune of 5000 times without my agency stepping in and putting a stop to it. In many cases, on paper (computer database) the violations continue but on the ground.....no further violations occurring.
Without more info as to what these violations are, I cannot explain much else. Just wanted to let you all know that we are watching, regulating, and in 99% of the cases, eliminating the cause of these violations.

[Mossfern]

23. I used to grow my own vegetables

until the deer/groundhog invasion along with my back issues. Gardening has become near impossible around here.
I have however, found an incredible tomato soup recipe, make a mean chicken soup(thanks mom!) lentil barley soup, pea soup and experiment with new recipes.

Fortunately I can afford to buy the vegetables and other fresh ingredients. Those who are forced to use canned soup because of the cost of these fresh ingredients are not so lucky. There are options of organic canned soups and those others available at stores like Whole Foods..... but then there's the Amazon connection.

[GentryDixon]

12. I stopped using these soups decades ago.

I make a base of powdered milk, cornstarch, thyme, dehydrated onions, basil & chicken bouillon that I use as a soup base. It makes up to equivalent of 9 cans of soup base. I mix up a batch & reconstitute as necessary.

[Prairie_Seagull]

13. If campbells is doing it,

chances are others are or will be doing it as well.

IMO

[malaise]

14. The only thing I use from a can is

tomato paste.
PHEW!

[mr715]

18. Cream of X can serve as a good base for things nt

[mr715]

15. Want to solve climate change?

Time to make peace with bioengineering.

Humans have been using GMOs for 25,000 years. Just because our tools have gotten more refined, doesn't make them a bad thing. All they do is save us from starving.

[NickB79]

21. There are virtually no transgenic livestock currently in the farming industry

Hybrids yes, but those have been around forever (the broiler you buy is a fast growing hybrid breed of chicken).

So it's physically impossible for any food companies right now to be using bioengineered meat to any extent.

The closest thing there is are specially engineered pigs for people with alpha-gal syndrome who are allergic to mammalian meat.

https://amaroohills.com/collections/gasafe-pork?srsltid=AfmBOopPsETikhfjd9V429O3fenlE87_9mXxsKUiecVWb-kyDe9m_6FA

[QueerDuck]

22. Why? Isn't that more expensive than ordinary meat?