SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) — JBS, the world’s largest meat packer, has reduced cattle purchases from ranches with “irregularities” such as illegal deforestation, federal prosecutors found in their latest round of audits in the Amazonian state of Para.
Prosecutors said in a briefing that six percent of JBS’s audited cattle purchases came from farms potentially blacklisted for environmental or human-rights violations, down from nearly 17 percent in the previous auditing cycle and as much as 32 percent in the prior one.
“We are satisfied with the evolution, but our goal is to achieve 100 percent compliance,” said Liège Correia, sustainability director at JBS in Brazil.
Beef production is associated with deforestation in Brazil.
