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Greenpeace has alleged that Brazilian beef giant JBS indirectly purchased cattle raised on protected indigenous land in the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n
The animals were allegedly reared in the Pequizal do Naruv\u00f4tu Indigenous Territory.<\/p>\n
According to Greenpeace, between 2018 and 2025, Brazilian agribusiness entrepreneur Mauro Fernando Schaedler transferred at least 1,238 cattle from a farm overlapping with this territory to another property with no recorded irregularities.<\/p>\n
Greenpeace said this transfer was carried out to disguise the origin of the animals, a practice referred to as \u2018cattle laundering\u2019.<\/p>\n
The activist group alleged that these animals were later supplied to two JBS slaughterhouses authorised for exports.<\/p>\n
One of the facilities, located in \u00c1gua Boa, Mato Grosso state, received cattle from Fazenda Itapirana from February 2019 until February 2025. This slaughterhouse is authorised to export to destinations including Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
The second slaughterhouse, in Barra do Gar\u00e7as, bought cattle from Fazenda Itapirana between 2018 and 2021 and exported meat to several European countries during that period.<\/p>\n
JBS had not responded to Just Food’s<\/em> request for comment on the Greenpeace allegations at the time of writing.<\/p>\n In a statement, Greenpeace said the facility “continues” to export to Europe “today”, although it has not identified data showing purchases from Fazenda Itapirana after July 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cThis investigation provides just one example of how JBS and large corporations profit and expand from the absence of a comprehensive, effective and transparent control system for their supply chain, which indirectly supports environmental damage and the violation of constitutional rights and guarantees, especially the fundamental rights of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil,\u201d Greenpeace\u2019s statement read.<\/p>\n The organisation urged European governments and parliamentarians to reject the EU-Mercosur trade agreement to ensure the \u201cswift application\u201d of the EU Deforestation Regulation.<\/p>\n The EU-Mercosur agreement is a trade and cooperation deal between the EU and the Mercosur bloc, comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and finalised in a political agreement in December 2024.<\/p>\n Greenpeace said the deal would increase meat import quotas from Brazil to the EU \u201cwithout guarantee that these imports are not linked to deforestation or violations of Indigenous Peoples\u2019 rights\u201d.<\/p>\n “Greenpeace links JBS to cattle illegally raised in indigenous lands” was originally created and published by Just Food<\/a>, a GlobalData owned brand.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n