JBS’s global expansion has been closely tied to serious human, environmental, and animal rights violations. The company has built its meat empire through unethical practices, including illegal deforestation, the destruction of Indigenous lands, modern slavery in its supply chains, and dangerous working conditions that contributed to COVID-19 deaths and other injuries. It also has a troubling record of animal welfare abuses. Rather than reform, JBS has largely continued these practices by paying government fines and settlements, treating them as a cost of doing business. Adding to these concerns, research by SOMO revealed that JBS used a network of 17 subsidiaries in Luxembourg — most of them without employees — to avoid paying up to $442 million in taxes between 2019 and 2022. These shell companies, which collectively own $58 billion in global assets, appear to serve no economic purpose other than to channel profits to Luxembourg, a known tax haven. This sophisticated structure allows JBS to shift profits out of countries where real operations occur, engaging in what researchers call “classic, brazen tax avoidance.” Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited JBS to respond to these allegations; the company did not reply.