UK supermarkets linked to 2020's record-breaking fires in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands
The world’s largest meat processor, JBS, and its leading competitors Marfrig and Minerva slaughtered cattle purchased from ranchers linked to the 2020 fires that destroyed one-third of the world’s largest inland wetland in the Pantanal region of Brazil, Greenpeace International reveals in a new report published today. In Making Mincemeat of the Pantanal, the NGO names 15 cattle ranchers in the region that have recently supplied JBS, Marfrig and Minerva who own cattle ranches where more than 73,000 hectares burned between July 1 and October 27, 2020. That’s an area the half the size of ...