Two days after we caught Tesco
stocking beef products linked to trashed Amazon rainforest in Brazil,
the company has been in touch today to tell me that they have decided to cease all contracts with JBS
Brazil. They have put together a public statement making their position clear.
Posted by Sarah Shoraka -
17 May 2012 at 11:58am -
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In February this year, I went to the Amazon to help monitor
new deforestation for soya and to make a film to document it. Flying over the
forest frontier and seeing how huge soya farms cut into it, I experienced a
feeling of dread. I knew that current industry agreements forced by Greenpeace
such as the soya moratorium and enforcement by the authorities in Brazil, were just
about holding back the tide of deforestation. But I also knew that plans by the
agribusiness lobby in Congress could soon open the flood gates.
The unique biodiversity of the Amazon is threatened by changes to Brazil's forest laws
Yesterday,
Brazilian politicians took a decisive step towards opening the door to massive
deforestation in the Amazon. They voted in favour of radical changes to the
Brazilian forest code, the primary legal instrument for protecting the
Amazon. And elsewhere, two forest campaigners were assassinated by gunmen.
