How Big Beef Is Fueling the Amazon’s Destruction
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- Опубліковано 21 січ 2022
- Brazil meat giant JBS calls itself a friend of the environment. Bloomberg found it is one of the biggest drivers of Amazon deforestation, as Bloomberg's Jessica Brice explains.
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The world’s biggest beef producer says it has no tolerance for rainforest deforestation. Bloomberg’s analysis shows that’s not true-and Brazilian law isn’t helping.
São Félix do Xingu is a modern-day Wild West hacked out of Brazil’s Amazon jungle by folks with little to lose. Cattle outnumber people almost 20-to-1 and, after dusk, the cratered, dirt roads fill with big rigs hauling the mammoth trunks of stolen trees. It’s a place outsiders don’t have much reason to visit, where motorcyclists won’t wear helmets because people want to know who is coming and going. Just about everybody knows everybody else, especially Stanisley Ferreira Sandes.
Four months a year, Ferreira Sandes, 47, crisscrosses São Félix’s almost 85,000 square kilometers (33,000 square miles) in a four-by-four Chevrolet with a cowboy hat on the dash and a revolver under the seat. He’s on the hunt for 5,000 head of cattle to feed a pipeline pumping beef through slaughterhouses owned by Brazilian meatpacking giant JBS SA and others, then into markets from Miami to Hong Kong. The faster he hits his mark, the sooner he goes home. But the competition is fierce, the going slow. He visits three ranches a day-four, if he hustles-picking up 23 cows here, 68 there. For buyers like Ferreira Sandes, there’s no better haunt than São Félix do Xingu. At 2.4 million head, it’s home to Brazil’s largest herd. “If what you’re after is cattle,” he says, “you needn’t go anywhere else.”
But the municipality that’s as big as Ireland lays claim to a more notorious title too. It’s the deforestation capital of the world. Understanding how Brazil’s beef industry and rainforest destruction are inextricably intertwined reveals a truth that JBS doesn’t acknowledge: As the region’s biggest beef producer, its supply chain is also among the biggest drivers of Amazon deforestation the world has ever known. While marketing itself as a friend of the environment, JBS has snapped up more cattle coming out of the Amazon than any other meatpacker in an industry that’s overwhelmingly to blame for the rainforest’s demise. It has helped push the world’s largest rainforest to a tipping point at which it’s no longer able to clean the Earth’s air, because large swaths now emit more carbon than they absorb. Late last year, at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, governments and financial institutions-including JBS investors-made ambitious green commitments to drastically alter their business models to save the environment. With Amazon deforestation at a 15-year high, JBS is a case study illustrating how difficult it is to keep such promises.
For more than a decade, JBS has committed to ridding its supply chain of animals born or raised on deforested land. Bloomberg analyzed about 1 million delivery logs that JBS accidentally posted online to show just how far its footprint has reached into the Amazon in that period. A 10-day trip into the heart of Brazil’s cattle country put on full display how easily and openly cows from illegally cleared land flood supply chains. JBS says it sets the highest standards for its suppliers, but it’s using a greenwashed version of an animal’s origin and working within a legal system so full of loopholes that prosecutors, environmentalists and even ranchers themselves consider it a farce.
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As cattle and cowboys march north, they create a ring of fire that is shocking one of our planet's essential biodiversity hotspots and carbon sinks. Meanwhile, Big Beef sits back shamelessly, claiming to have a clean supply chain. Let's hope that this level of research and investigation helps to shed light on the devastating effects of illegal land clearing for cattle in the Amazon and calls for accountability and better practices in the beef industry.
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fake and missinfo
what's fake about it?
Why are people still eating beef? It’s not even healthy.
How is it not healthy
So JBL legally buys cattle that may have come from an area that was previously deforested, but is not actually engauged in deforestation. So in other words… nobody is doing anything wrong? Not sure i get the point. Reporter is cute though.
Bloomberg's investigation wasn't inconclusive, it found that some of the cattle JBL buys come from deforestation. JBL could have found this out for themselves, since they advertise that their meat doesn't contribute to the problem of deforestation. So while they're following the law, they're still in the wrong.
Fake
Evidence?
@@alleycat5092 NASA satellite
@@nacho8005 Can you share your source?
whats fake about it?
@@nacho8005 You just debunked yourself. NASA satellites are the easiest way to see the deforestation. Especially during fire seasons. You can see the destruction from space and the overwhelming amount comes from the souther Amazon of Brazil.