"Amazon Soy Moratorium Ruled Constitutional: Now It’s Companies’ Turn to Act", 28 August 2026

...In the last year, legal and antitrust challenges had cast doubt over the future of the vital Amazon Soy Moratorium. But this month, Brazil’s Supreme Court has now made it clear: the Moratorium is constitutional, and companies have every right to maintain environmental standards that go beyond the legal minimum...

Together with meat and dairy companies, feed producers and other soy users, these companies must:

• Put the moratorium’s 2008 deforestation cut-off directly into their sourcing policies
• Require full farm-level traceability
• Reject both legal and illegal post-2008 Amazon deforestation
• Refuse soy – and animal products fed with soy – from traders that do not comply with the Moratorium’s criteria
• Deliver deforestation- and conversion-free supply chains now

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The Brazilian Supreme Court has settled the legality question. The question for companies now is much simpler...