Trampling the rights of Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities

The industrial meat sector’s assault on human

rights in Brazil is not confined to the Amazon and beef production (see page 41). Greenpeace Brazil recently documented violence against local communities while investigating one soya-producing estate in the adjoining Cerrado savannah, Agronegócio Estrondo, which was established via a land grab and has a history of slave labour and illegal land clearance.2 Major global commodities companies Bunge and Cargill both operate silos within the estate’s boundaries3 and have been sourcing soya directly from its plantations.4 Tens of thousands of tonnes of soya from this estate have been traded to several European countries.5

14 September 2014, Maranhão, Brazil: Destruction of the Arariboia Indigenous lands in the Cerrado. ©Markus Mauthe/Greenpeace