{"id":27560,"date":"2019-12-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=27560"},"modified":"2021-12-01T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T12:49:10","slug":"greenpeace-report-brazil-agronegocio-estrondo-fast-food-deforestation-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/press-release\/27560\/greenpeace-report-brazil-agronegocio-estrondo-fast-food-deforestation-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace report reveals fast food suppliers importing deforestation and violence from Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bahia, Brazil \u2013 Mega-traders Cargill and Bunge are exporting soya from an agricultural estate in Brazil with a long record of violence, illegality, and environmental destruction, a Greenpeace International investigation<\/a> has uncovered. Cargill and Bunge supply soya to numerous international companies, including fast food brands McDonald’s, KFC, Burger King, retailers and consumer goods brands that promised to eliminate deforestation by 2020.[1] <\/p>\n\n

\u201cCargill and Bunge are supplying the market with soya linked to decimation and violence from Brazil\u2019s Cerrado. Brands buying the soya drive this destruction. This soya is feeding chicken and meat sold in fast food and retail stores around the world,\u201d said Cristiane Mazzetti, Campaigner at Greenpeace Brazil.<\/p>\n\n

Cargill and Bunge both have silos on the Agroneg\u00f3cio Estrondo estate in Brazil\u2019s Cerrado, and export its soya to Europe and East Asia.[2] Estrondo recently renewed a permit to deforest nearly 25,000 hectares of land \u2013 an area the size of Frankfurt \u2013 in the rapidly-disappearing savanna.[3] Soya traders have thus far resisted calls to curb deforestation in the Cerrado, where half of the natural vegetation has already been destroyed.[4] <\/p>\n\n

Greenpeace International\u2019s Under Fire also details reports of illegal land clearance, land grabbing, and slave labour on Agroneg\u00f3cio Estrondo. Members of traditional geraizeira<\/em> communities report having been detained, abducted, shot, and having access to communal lands restricted by Estrondo\u2019s private security force. In May 2019, a Greenpeace Brazil investigative team and German TV Channel ARD Weltspiegel documented an armed raid against one community living within Estrondo\u2019s borders, capturing footage and photographs<\/a>. Threats towards traditional and Indigenous communities and forest destruction are both on the rise since President Jair Bolsonaro came to power in January.[5] <\/p>\n\n

\u201cThere has never been a more crucial moment for companies to act. The future of vital ecosystems and the communities that rely on them hangs in the balance. Companies must immediately end trade with environmental destroyers and take action to protect people and nature,\u201d said Daniela Montalto, Campaigner at Greenpeace UK.<\/p>\n\n

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The full Under Fire report may be accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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Photos and videos can be accessed here: <\/p>\n\n