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1 week ago | 
unearthed.greenpeace.org | Naira Hofmeister |Lucy Jordan
JBS, the world’s largest meat company, will fail to meet its flagship commitment to eliminate both legal and illegal deforestation in its vast Amazon rainforest supply chain by the end of this year, according to beef producers. Working with the Guardian and Reporter Brasil, Unearthed interviewed more than 35 ranchers and cattle industry representatives over three field trips to the Amazon. Ranchers told us they believe the company’s ambitious environmental pledge is impossible to achieve.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Jonathan Watts |Naira Hofmeister |Daniel Camargos |Lucy Jordan |Paul Scruton |Lucy Swan
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
unearthed.greenpeace.org | Crispin Dowler |Naira Hofmeister
The UK exported 8,500 tonnes of pesticides last year that are banned on British farms because of the dangers they pose to human health and nature, a new investigation by Unearthed and Public Eye has found. The shipments, described by campaigners as “the ultimate hypocrisy”, included thousands of tonnes of a weedkiller prohibited in the UK because of the high risk it poses to people living near fields where it is sprayed.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
unearthed.greenpeace.org | Naira Hofmeister
When Brazil banned the notorious weedkiller paraquat, farmers switched to diquat, a close chemical cousin.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
publiceye.ch | Naira Hofmeister |Crispin Dowler |with Laurent Gaberell
When Brazil banned the notorious weedkiller paraquat, farmers switched to diquat, a close chemical cousin. But now diquat – a Syngenta pesticide banned in Switzerland and in the EU – is causing problems of its own. Naira Hofmeister, with Laurent Gaberell and Crispin Dowler, 8. December 2024 When one side of his body seized up after working the fields of his small-holding, Valdemar Postanovicz feared he was having a stroke. “All the right side of my body was paralysed.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
unearthed.greenpeace.org | Naira Hofmeister |Fernanda Wenzel
The world’s biggest meat company bought cattle more than 100 times from a farm that was sanctioned and fined almost £2m for illegally destroying unique and vulnerable wetlands in Brazil, Unearthed can reveal. Brazilian beef giant JBS, which supplies KFC, McDonalds, Walmart and Tesco, has been repeatedly linked to large-scale Amazon destruction. JBS’s cattle purchases appear to be in direct contravention of its promises to keep its supply chain clean.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Naira Hofmeister |Fernanda Wenzel
JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company, has over the last five years been buying cattle from farms that were caught illegally deforesting Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands despite the company’s claims of environmental responsibility. An Unearthed investigation found that JBS suppliers cleared vast areas of the Pantanal wetlands in the past five years, with Fazenda Querência being the largest deforester, having cleared an area half the size of Paris.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
unearthed.greenpeace.org | Crispin Dowler |Naira Hofmeister
Multinational companies are exporting rising quantities of banned chemicals from France to be used in pesticide production overseas, after the French government failed to act on its promise to end this practice. A new investigation by Unearthed and Public Eye reveals how the pesticide industry is exploiting France’s failure to close a loophole in its landmark ban on the export of pesticides that are prohibited for use on its own farms.
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May 23, 2024 | 
reporterbrasil.org.br | Naira Hofmeister |André Campos |Photos Alessandro Falco |Bruna C. Borges
FROM NOVA MAMORÉ (RONDÔNIA/BRAZIL) – Protected by an armed police scheme provided 24 hours a day by the Rondônia government, 605 heads of cattle grazed until April within the Guajará Mirim State Park, a full protection conservation unit in the Amazon (see box) where cattle breeding is prohibited. The animals were there because they were seized by the state.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
noticias.uol.com.br | Naira Hofmeister
Só para assinantesOrganizações de defesa do bem-estar animal pediram que o Senado Federal analise com urgência um Projeto de Lei (PL) que pode proibir a exportação de animais vivos por navio para abate no exterior. O apelo foi feito nesta segunda (26) através de uma carta endereçada ao presidente da casa, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), depois que uma embarcação com 19 mil cabeças de gado proveniente do Brasil atracou na semana passada em Cidade do Cabo, levando um "fedor inimaginável" à localidade.
