How JBS is still Slaughering the Amazon

July 2019: Screenshots of Facebook social media post show JBS-branded livestock truck reportedly being used to collect cattle from a farm that has been embargoed.

The system: how does ‘cattle laundering’ work?

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Land, often public, is deforested and subdivided

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Cattle are introduced in recently deforested areas

After a while, the cattle grazing in the deforested areas are sent to another farm without irregularities like land grabbing or deforestation

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The ‘clean’ farm sells the irregular cattle to the slaughterhouse, effectively hiding the trail of destruction

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Without the control of all suppliers, direct and indirect, meat from deforestation ‘contaminates the entire value chain

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And it is sold to supermarkets, mixed with other products made without irregularities

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Exploiting workers

What defines a resilient food economy?

Sowing sickness – spreading disease and pollution

Poor diet, poor health

Trampling the rights of Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities

Poisoning the environment

Devouring the land

Breaking the climate budget and polluting our planet

Pile it high and sell it cheap

The system: how does ‘cattle laundering’ work?

Risk factor: human rights violations

Risk factor: deforestation

Risk factor: corruption

Covering its tracks – how leading processor JBS is backsliding on transparency commitments

Buying blind – the market’s no-questions-asked approach to global commodities trade

Big in the UK 2

Supporting destruction – supermarkets and fast food companies are bankrolling environmental collapse

The G4 Cattle Agreement – commitments a decade overdue

Taking the bull by the horns – time for urgent action to transform the global food economy

Taking stock – JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, is still slaughtering the Amazon

High stakes – how industrial meat is taking us to the tipping point

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