Analysis

JBS extends socio-environmental supply monitoring in Amazon

By Ken Wilcock
Updated May 5 2021 - 12:33pm, first published May 4 2021 - 1:40pm
ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE: Aerial view of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, where trees have been cut and burned on an illegal dirt road to open land for agriculture and livestock. Picture: Shutterstock
ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE: Aerial view of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, where trees have been cut and burned on an illegal dirt road to open land for agriculture and livestock. Picture: Shutterstock

LAST September, JBS SA, one of the world's largest meat processors, announced a supply-chain monitoring program that it claimed would target the indirect cattle suppliers who are accused of illegal land clearing and associated practices which are resulting in deforestation in the Amazon.

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