PRIME LOCATION – WHERE JBS AND ITS COMPETITORS MAKE MINCEMEAT OF THE PANTANAL
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Map data: Google Earth / Image © Maxar Technologies
JBS ANASTACIO: SIF 615
In the capital of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo
developed with Pão de Açúcar (part of the Casino
Grande, JBS has a leather processing facility and
Group) as ‘a high point for the brand this year’.222
two slaughterhouses and meat processing facilities.
One of the Campo Grande facilities reportedly
One of these meat processing facilities (SIF 1662 )
supplies meat to all of these big names223 – workers
has the capacity to slaughter approximately
and drivers at the SIF 4400 facility confirmed
1,900 cattle a day;
to investigators in October 2020 that it supplies
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216
the other facility (SIF 4400)
manufactures hamburgers and has onsite capacity
McDonald’s,224 and Greenpeace Brazil has also
to slaughter 480–960 cattle a day.217 Greenpeace
documented beef from the SIF 4400 facility on sale in
Brazil and Repórter Brasil investigations
Pão de Açúcar and Carrefour supermarkets.
documented significant movement of refrigerated trucks between the two facilities,
But JBS is not the only beef giant with its eyes
which suggests
on the Pantanal. Two of its main competitors and G4
that the supply chains may converge. However, JBS
Agreement co-signatories, Marfrig (one of the other
refused to confirm trade between the facilities,
processors whose links to deforestation and slavery
noting that they are ‘independently registered
were exposed in Slaughtering the Amazon) Amazon and Minerva,
for inspection purposes [and] they are also in
are also supplied by ranchers in the Pantanal, including
completely different locations miles apart’.
several whose properties burned in 2020.
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219
This report links four cattle farmers whose
Marfrig’s Várzea Grande facility in Mato Grosso
ranches in the Pantanal burned in 2020 to one or
(SIF 2015) is reportedly also a supplier of hamburgers
both of these Campo Grande facilities. One of them,
to McDonald’s in Brazil,225 and beef from that
Ivanildo da Cunha Miranda, is reportedly under police
establishment has been documented in a Pão de Açúcar
investigation for deliberate use of fire on the ranch in
supermarket in São Paulo.226 This is one of the many
question;
processing facilities the present investigation found
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IBAMA has imposed fines and embargoes
on two of his other properties as a result of past illegal
to be supplied directly or indirectly with cattle from
activities (see below).
ranches where satellite data show fires destroyed
221
JBS’s 2019 Annual and Sustainability Report mentions ongoing partnerships with McDonald’s and Burger King and cites a premium brand initiative
swathes of the Pantanal in 2020 (see below). In addition to supplying some of the big names in Brazil, JBS’s Campo Grande operations export
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