Zer burn beef1/20/2024 ![]() ![]() In a separate investigation fires were also found on at least three farms known to sell cattle directly to JBS slaughterhouses. It said “there is no proven connection with agribusiness activities”. ![]() Minerva said there was no evidence it had bought animals from ranches where fires had occurred, and blamed this year’s crisis on the weather. “Whenever any overlapping of areas between the properties and the fire outbreaks is identified, there is an alert for the purchase to be re-evaluated,” it said. Marfrig also said it blocked any farms found to be involved in deforestation, and that it began monitoring fire outbreaks in August this year. The company added: “If farms are deemed non-compliant with our sustainable sourcing policies for any reason, including deforestation, they are blocked from our supply chain … We are not involved in, nor do we condone, the destruction of the Amazon.” “JBS is actively working to bring together other important stakeholders and companies to join forces to preserve the Amazon.” “Theoretical correlation based on estimates is not causation and is misleading,” a JBS spokesperson said. JBS, Marfrig and Minerva told the Bureau they were committed to “zero-deforestation” supply chains, and that they all monitor their suppliers to ensure this. Some of the world’s biggest meat companies operate in the Amazon. These three meatpackers dominate in Brazil’s Amazon and account for nearly half of the cattle slaughtered in the region, according to Imazon. There were almost 80,000 fire alerts in the probable buying areas of Marfrig, the third largest Brazilian beef exporter, and more than 66,000 around abattoirs owned by Minerva. Its factories are known to export to Europe, including to UK companies. More than a quarter of a million fire alerts were issued in the estimated buying zones of JBS, the largest supplier of meat globally, for example. Some of the world’s biggest meat companies operate in the region. Using methods designed by the non-profit sustainability project Chain Reaction Research, the Guardian and the BIJ mapped Nasa fire alerts archive data on to the legally defined area of the Amazon and found that of the 554,000 alerts from July to September, nearly 376,000 – around 70% – were in the estimated buying zones, despite the fact that this area covers far less than half of the legal Amazon. ![]()
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