JBS Deforestation-Risk Exposure Tops Meat Rank, Study Shows (1)

JBS SA, the world’s biggest meat supplier, has a supply chain that is the most-exposed to deforestation risk in Brazil’s Amazon region among more than 100 beef companies in the area.

That’s the finding of an annual report produced by Imazon, an environmental think tank, in partnership with O Mundo que Queremos Institute. The study looked at 132 meat processors with facilities in the Amazon, including JBS, Marfrig Global Foods SA and Minerva SA, along wtih 69 food retailers, including the biggest supermarket chains in the country.

Cattle producers that potentially sell to JBS cover 9.7 million hectares ...