This Is How the Laundering of Meat From Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Works

El Pais

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It is the key concept to understand how the main vector of deforestation works in the Brazilian Amazon: the opening of pastures for livestock. The meat that reaches the shelves of supermarkets in Europe, Asia or the United States proceeds on much of illegally deforested land, and the large producing companies, although they are increasingly trying to verify the origin of their products, cannot fully prove that they are free of sin. It is what a …

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JBS, the world's largest meat producer, may have exported beef and leather to the European Union produced from cattle from illegal farms in Pará, the same state that will host world leaders in Belém to discuss solutions to the climate crisis during COP30 next month. In a report released this Wednesday (15), the Human Rights Watch (HRW) points out that illegal livestock farming has devastated the Amazon rainforest and violated the rights of small…