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The cattle industry and rainforest destruction are inextricably intertwined. While Brazilian beef makes its way to plates around the world, the Amazon is paying the price.

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The world’s biggest beef producer, JBS, markets itself as a friend of the environment and says it’s committed to ridding its supply chain of animals born or raised on deforested land in the Amazon trib.al/5QAmrf9
But the beef industry’s aggressive expansion is overwhelmingly responsible for the rainforest’s destruction, and JBS has bought more cattle coming out of the biome than any other company trib.al/5QAmrf9
JBS’s supply chain is entrenched in a part of the Amazon that’s been largely cut down to make way for cattle. Alerts from Brazil’s national space research agency show a cumulative 8.2 million hectares of clear-cutting since 2009 trib.al/5QAmrf9
When JBS says it sets the highest standards for its suppliers, it’s based on a greenwashed version of an animal’s origin and a legal system so full of loopholes that prosecutors, environmentalists, and even the ranchers themselves consider it a farce trib.al/5QAmrf9
A Bloomberg analysis of more than 1.5 million deliveries and mapping files shows just how far the Brazilian beef giant’s supply chain reaches into the world’s largest rainforest trib.al/5QAmrf9
The Amazon is nearing a tipping point as deforestation is at a 15-year high—and parts of it now dump more carbon dioxide into the air than it can absorb.

Read the full @business investigation in collaboration with @Rainforest_RIN & @pulitzercenter ➡️
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