ANNEX 2: OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT
Within the context of the 2020 Pantanal fires –
Greenpeace contacted the meat processors
many reportedly thought to have been deliberately
on 4 January 2021, asking them to:
and illegally lit by ranchers in defiance of regional and federal bans – Greenpeace provided the meat
1. Confirm the historic trade information
processors and, where possible, ranchers named
linking them to the named ranchers and
in this report with the opportunity to comment
confirm and explain any identified legal/
prior to publication on the historic trade links it had
policy irregularities associated with the
established between ranchers with operations in
named ranchers
the Pantanal and specific slaughterhouses, as well as any legal/policy irregularities (eg embargoes,
2. Provide the most recent date on which
irregular CAR status) it had identified in those
they had sourced cattle from the named
ranchers’ operations. The aim was to help ensure
ranchers
the accuracy of all findings.
3. Identify the steps they had taken to review the compliance of their current suppliers, given the extent of the fires in the Pantanal in 2020 and federal and state bans on deliberate use of fire 4. Verify whether – following review – the decision had been taken to exclude any of the named ranchers from their supply chains The letters received in reply are reproduced below. Copies of the full responses are also available online, at https://drive.google. com/drive/folders/14lO83hGPwMlCxfX7glurOoztPNNHdHT?usp=sharing.
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