Brazil meat giant JBS pledges to axe suppliers linked to deforestation
by Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro from Environment | The Guardian on (#58GGQ)
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Brazilian meat giant JBS said on Wednesday that it will monitor its entire supply chain by 2025, including problematic indirect supplier" Amazon farms it currently has no control over, some of which have been linked to illegal deforestation.
As a company we are assuming our responsibility to be a transformation agent for society, to be a catalyst. To build together with everyone a better world, a more sustainable Amazon and a better Brazil," said JBS global CEO Gilberto Tomazoni in a virtual launch of the JBS Green Platform.
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