《How JBS is still slaughtering the Amazon （JBS未停宰割亞馬遜森林）》｜Greenpeace

‘ Meat-processing workers are uniquely vulnerable to the coronavirus and the risk of contracting it because of the oppressive and dangerous working conditions in these facilities. This is about how those [B]lack, Latino and Asian workers are more significantly affected than their white co-workers.’28

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is still Slaughtering the Amazon

Brent Newell, senior attorney at Public Justice, July 2020

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21 April 2015, New Zealand: Screenshot of Primary ITO promotional video ‘Just the job - a career in meet processing’. Source: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=WFrogcS7y4A&t=325s

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What defines a resilient food economy?

Exploiting workers

Poor diet, poor health

Sowing sickness – spreading disease and pollution

Trampling the rights of Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities

Poisoning the environment

Devouring the land

Breaking the climate budget and polluting our planet

What defines the industrial meat sector?

Pile it high and sell it cheap

Risk factor: human rights violations

The system: how does ‘cattle laundering’ work?

Risk factor: deforestation

Risk factor: corruption

The G4 Cattle Agreement – commitments a decade overdue

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

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

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

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

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

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

Risk factor: public health 3

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