Cargill, Bunge, and JBS are corporate behemoths driving the global industrial agriculture system. It’s a system designed to convert large swaths of the planet into chemically-dependent monocultures to produce cheap meat, palm oil, and chocolate.
But there’s a big problem. These companies are happy to snap up commodities like soy or Latin American beef, but they don’t ask the right questions about where it comes from – including from deforested land.
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The commercial drive for profit has meant that more and more farmers in Brazil are slashing and burning pristine and precious forests to feed these corporate giants. Cargill & co. quietly do everything they can to make it easier for them: buying, exporting, processing, and selling to your favourite supermarket.
We know their executives hate publicity. When we put the face of Cargill’s CEO on a big report outlining his company's role in deforestation, we received a barrage of complaints from this giant corporation. When we use our collective power to shine a light on these shadowy corporations, it works.
