Human Rights Watch found a major international company could be sourcing cattle from ranches linked to deforestation.
The world’s largest meat company, JBS, has allegedly fuelled illegal deforestation, land grabs and human rights abuses in the Brazilian Amazon by sourcing cattle from ranches operating inside protected areas, according to a new Human Rights Watch investigation.
On Wednesday, the nonprofit issued an 86-page report focusing on the state of Pará, where the United Nations will hold its annual climate change summit, COP30, next month.
The report highlights a gap in JBS’s supply chain: Human Rights Watch claims the meat company does not track its indirect cattle suppliers.
Investigators found that cattle raised on illegally deforested land were moved through a “laundering” system that concealed their origins before they reached JBS.
That, in turn, means JBS cannot guarantee that its beef or leather products are not contributing to deforestation and related abuses.
Without a better system for tracing livestock, JBS will continue to be “unable to root out illegal cattle ranches”, according to Luciana Téllez, a senior e
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