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6 Окт 2022

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The Guardian

Brazil: Investigation found that JBS poultry were fed soy beans and corn from deforested areas and are ending up on British supermarket shelves

“Chicken in British supermarkets ‘linked to deforested Amazon’”, 6 Oct 2022

A new investigation into industrial poultry farming in Brazil claims that chicken fed with corn and soya beans grown on deforested land or with unclear origins is ending up on British dinner plates and supermarket shelves.

The joint investigation by Reporter Brasil and Ecostorm, published on Thursday…highlights how global food chains are linked to mounting deforestation in a country that is home to some of the world’s most important biomes and food producers.

The investigation claims suppliers of soya beans and corn used to feed chicken produced by the American food processing company JBS were linked to deforested areas in the Amazon and the Cerrado…

…JBS told Reporter Brasil that it requires its grain suppliers to meet high standards and be signatories to the soy moratorium. The moratorium bans the sale of soya grown on land deforested after 2008.

JBS is the world’s biggest meat firm and exports Brazilian beef, pork and chicken to companies across the globe, including in Europe, China and the Middle East. Seara, a subsidiary it bought in 2013, produces more than 5 million chickens a day from its 9,000 poultry farms across Brazil…

The investigation also claimed to have found a number of instances where JBS had bought corn from farms where illegal deforestation had occurred.

JBS told the Guardian: “JBS requires that 100% of its grain procurement contracts meet social-environmental criteria in all Brazilian biomes. In the case of purchases from trading companies, the contracts require that their supplier farms are not located in areas of illegal deforestation; are not under federal or state interdictions; are not located in conservation units or on indigenous or quilombola lands; or do not use labour under conditions analogous to slavery. Additionally, for those that operate specifically in the Amazon biome, JBS also requires that they are signatories to the soy moratorium.” They added that in the cases of purchases from producers, “the farms that supplied grains to the company were in compliance with JBS’s social-environmental criteria at the time of purchase. The three farms mentioned received an environmental interdiction at a later stage and currently, post-embargo, they are blocked from the JBS purchasing system. Two other farms mentioned have no record of a commercial relationship with JBS.”…