Revealed: new evidence links Brazil meat giant JBS to Amazon deforestation

New evidence appears to connect JBS, the world’s biggest meat company, to cattle supplied from a farm in the Brazilian Amazon which is under sanction for illegal deforestation. This is the fifth time in a year that allegations have surfaced connecting the company to Amazon farmers linked with illegal deforestation. Brazilian beef companies have repeatedly claimed that the biggest challenge to keeping deforestation out of their supply chains is the “indirect suppliers” – farms where cattle are birthed, or which sell to farms where cattle are fattened,...