Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has re-opened the Amazon to rampant destruction, launching an all-out assault the day he took office by transferring decisions about future protected areas and Indigenous lands to Brazil’s powerful agribusiness lobby. Since January 2019, more than 74,000 fires have broken out across Brazil - an 85 percent increase from the same point in 2018. The fires we see now are the consequences of these policies and rhetoric.

These are not wildfires. Nearly all are the result of the expansion of agribusiness, emboldened by Bolsonaro’s radical anti-environment and human rights policies, using fire as an indiscriminate tool to clear former forests and make way for cattle and soybeans. These fires, which are large enough to be seen from space, pose a significant threat to the “lungs” of the planet. They threaten one of the world’s last best defenses against climate change.

Without the financing of American soy traders like Cargill and Bunge, and companies like Stop & Shop, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Sysco – This wouldn’t be happening.

Now, with the Amazon in flames, these companies must take responsibility for the impacts of their products and stop financing this reckless environmental destruction.

Sign our petition asking the President of Stop & Shop and the CEO of their parent company, Ahold Delhaize, to end their partnership with Cargill, the largest trader of soy from Brazil, and to call on President Bolsonaro to reinstate protections for the Amazon!