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National European supermarket chains announce they will stop selling some or all of their beef products from Brazil due to links to deforestation in the Amazon jungle and other ecologically important areas.
Sainsbury’s, as well as Lidl Netherlands and others, has entered into a new investigation into “cattle laundering” with JBS, the largest beef meat company. According to Repórter Brasil, the company obtained more indirect gains from areas in illegal areas.
A series of investigations by the Oficina de Periodismo de Investigación and The Guardian in recent years has exposed deforestation linked to the Brazilian beef trade. According to investigators, the laundering occurs when those raised on weaning land are transferred from a free-deforestation farm to an illegally-deforested farm before sacrifices.
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