How JBS is still slaughtering the Amazon

From top: 10 April 2017: Meat in German supermarket. ©Bodo Marks/Greenpeace March 2012, Tangara da Serra, Mato Grosso, Brazil: Harvesting soya bean crop. ©Pulsar Imagens/Alamy Stock Photo

How

is still Slaughtering the Amazon

30 March 2009, Tangará da Serra, Mato Grosso, Brazil: Cattle at Fazenda Santa Amálial. ©Ricardo Funari/ Lineair/Greenpeace

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‘All economic partners of Brazil should share the blame for indirectly promoting deforestation and GHGemissions by not barring imports and consuming agricultural products contaminated with deforestation, illegal or not.’ 43 Raoni Rajão et al, Science, July 2020

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Exploiting workers

Sowing sickness – spreading disease and pollution

Poor diet, poor health

What defines a resilient food economy?

Pile it high and sell it cheap

Poisoning the environment

Breaking the climate budget and polluting our planet

Devouring the land

Trampling the rights of Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities

Risk factor: deforestation

Risk factor: human rights violations

The G4 Cattle Agreement– commitments a decade overdue

Risk factor: corruption

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

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

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

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

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

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