![]() The risks that come with a company’s products being associated with destruction of the forest - like regulatory action, boycotts or simple reputational damage - are increasingly concerning to the financiers that large multinationals rely on for funding. Multinational meat company JBS has been repeatedly caught selling meat grown in deforested fields in the Amazon, according to a report by environmental nonprofit Mighty Earth.Īnd a December probe by Brazilian federal prosecutors found that nearly 17 percent of cattle bought by JBS in one Amazon state “came from ranches with ‘irregularities’ such as illegal deforestation,” Reuters reported. ![]() ![]() In January, he took a flashy step toward that goal when he announced a state of emergency and ordered Federal police - under the highway and environmental ministries - to take the forest back.īut events last weekend reinforced how hard shutting down the illicit mining industry - or the broader plague of deforestation - is likely to be.Ī 2020 investigation by The Guardian found proof that companies around the world - like British supermarket giant Tesco and McDonald’s - were raising chicken on Cargill-supplied feed grown in deforested Amazon plots.Ĭargill is not the only major company allegedly sourcing products grown on illegally cleared lands. Lula pledged at the 2022 United Nations climate change conference to end illegal deforestation by 2030. Now, under Lula’s administration, Brazil is trying to rehabilitate its dire environmental record and reassert control. Some Brazilian human rights activists are also arguing that the miners moving in increasing numbers into Brazil’s constitutionally protected indigenous territory - like that of the Yanomami - may have been guilty of genocide, The Washington Post reported. The illegal incursions on the Amazon have resulted in mass deforestation, along with the pollution of rivers and the spread of epidemic disease. That illicit industry - and illegal logging and land grabs in general - surged under nearly a decade of conservative rule, during which the country’s leaders turned a blind eye to the armed conquest of large swaths of forest by small-scale miners and large-scale agriculture. ![]()
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