Leading burger supplier sourced from Amazon farmer using deforested land

Brazilian meat company which has supplied McDonald's and Burger King bought cattle from farm using deforested land earlier this year, investigation shows

The world's biggest supplier of burgers sourced meat from a farmer in the Amazon who had been found guilty of using deforested land, say reports, even as new figures reveal the beef industry's deforestation risks.

Marfrig, a Brazilian meat company that has supplied McDonald's, Burger King and other fast-food chains around the world, bought cattle from a farm that had been using deforested land earlier this year, according to a joint investigation by Reporter Brasil and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.