In the modern Amazon, the standing forest has little value. The Amazon is not protected, according to Ane Alencar, the science director at IPAM. This is based on research from the Brazilian NGO IPAM, which researches the Amazon.Īccording to IPAM, combined with unlawful real estate and wood transactions, a lack of enforcement, and around half of the felling took place on the public territory. The first half of 2022 saw unprecedented deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon it was 80% more than the corresponding time in 2018, the year before President Jair Bolsonaro’s inauguration. (Photo : Evaristo Sa/AFP via Getty Images) JBS responded by stating to Reporter Brasil that it has strict requirements for its grain suppliers, including that they adhere to the soy moratorium, which prohibits selling soy harvested on land cleared of trees after 2008. This analysis demonstrates that the purchase practices now in use have blind spots and still fall short of eliminating the grain laundering techniques, it was stated. This is the first time chicken produced in Brazil and shipped to the UK has been connected to deforestation, according to the joint study by Reporter Brasil and Ecostorm, released on Thursday. Seara Chicken supplies some of the world’s biggest supermarkets and fast-food chains with more than five million birds each day from its Brazilian poultry farms.
Over the past three years, Seara goods, a JBS subsidiary, have been imported into the UK and sold to wholesalers, food service, and processing firms that provide supermarkets, schools, hospitals, and care facilities.Īlso Read: Environmental Activists are Urging Governments to Make Ecocide an International Crime Large-Scale Chicken Providers JBS sells Brazilian beef, pig, and poultry to businesses worldwide, including the Middle East, Europe, and China.
According to the report, deforested areas in the Amazon and Cerrado are linked to the suppliers of maize and soybeans used to feed hens produced by JBS, the largest meat producer in the world and a US food processing corporation.
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