The commitment of Brazilian meat producers to the analysis

Every day at a Brazilian concentration camp, thousands of cattle are slaughtered to be slaughtered at home, all over the world.

Despite its growing commercialization, Latin America is one of the world’s largest exporters of animals, where animal origin is often kept secret.

“There is a young man who produces cattle, one who raises and one who satisfies,” said Gilberto Tomazoni, chief executive of JBS, who produces the world’s largest animal and earns $ 50bn a year. “Basically, people have been missing out on the enlightenment information they’re selling us.”

The management team of the São Paulo capital, which earlier this month met with cyber attacks in its practice in North America and Australia, it has long been accused of environmental degradation. But now begins the work of expelling Brazil the threat of separation and the boycott of the Amazon rain forest.

At its main industrial center in Lins, in the heart of the state of São Paulo, JBS deals with methods such as recycling of plastic waste and renewable energy provided by a power station fed by cane residues as evidence of its experiments.

However, while many local meat retailers are promising to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, overcoming the disturbance of their cattle sources will be crucial in trying to compare the business that is one of the main drivers of the forest – and that contributes to climate change.

JBS has recently set a target to be zero by 2040, which includes reducing its output as well as the invisible, and eliminating the remaining ones.

His main rivals, Marfrig and Minerva Foods, want to do the same.

“Given the growth of forests in Brazil, this is timely,” said Kiran Aziz, senior researcher at KLP, Norway’s largest pension fund, which fired JBS in 2018 due to the threat of corruption. “The most important thing is to set it up.”

The three leaders agreed more than a decade ago to ensure they do not buy meat, directly or indirectly, from deforestation farms in the Amazon. Because of its ability to absorb carbon dioxide, rain forests provide protection against climate change.

The Australian red and red meat companies are also keen to achieve that political neutrality at the end of the decade, when the largest US company, Tyson Foods, is working to reduce 30% off greenhouse gases by 2030.

However, most of the world’s largest meat and dairy companies have not made real progress, according to a recent report University of New York research.

After that the destruction of the Brazilian Amazon After reaching the age of 12 in 2020, local veterinarians were pressured to make sure the promises were not just green changes.

Unemployment leads to financial hardship. The three largest Brazilian groups rely on European investors and banks to earn at least a quarter of their income, plus money and loans, according to Chain Reaction Research.

“They run the risk of backlogs in European institutions, such as the removal of JBS and Nordea,” said Matthew Piotrowski, director of policy and research at Climate Advisers, referring to the Finnish financial manager’s decision to dispose of the property last year over stress. natural and other.

Maria Lettini, director of the Fairr Initiative, a financial technology company, said: “Everywhere, businesses are very supportive, but many are skeptical of how they can achieve what they have not been able to do.”

Although Brazil’s largest cattle producers have been able to control the supply of cattle, they have not tried to follow all the scattered fields and sometimes the animals can live for a lifetime.

Although legal documentation is required for each section carrying animals, the recordings are not public and the privacy policy prohibits the sharing of personal property. If different stages of development have not taken place on the same farm, this may make it difficult for them to follow the latest sales.

“[The] The problem with livestock breeding here in Brazil is that we have 2.5m breeders with cattle, which spread over a large part of the country, “said Paul Pianez, director of sustainability at Marfrig. . “

Satellite Images It is already being used as a tool to ensure that direct donors are following the law to prevent deforestation and the destruction of rural areas. JBS manages 60,000 farms this way across 1.5 times the size of Germany and is said to exclude sellers who are in breach.

Now the main task is to look down. JBS has set up a system based on blockchain carefully and secretly follow the integrity of each cow, which is why animals from illegal logging areas cannot be “cleaned” through the legal fields that provide the group.

The same is sent to the trade union for confirmation and the results are distributed to the pet seller. All Amazon retailers must be subscribed to JBS digital by 2025, which will be self-explanatory, or excluding others.

Marfrig noted where 62% of all his cattle came from the Amazon and 47% of the Cerrado savanna biome, including direct and indirect regulators, and records this via a blockchain-linked platform.

For its part, Minerva is said to be the first to transport wildlife to increase surveillance of land outside the Amazon, following traders in areas including Cerrado, the Atlantic forest and the Pantanal mountain range.

It now integrates the search tool into the existing system to find out more about the dangers of those who did not go to Amazon.

Taciano Custódio, Minerva’s security chief, said his analysis showed that many of the effects of deforestation were minimal. If they are herdsmen, they will probably provide a few animals each month.

“Brazil’s deforestation problem is more than just environmental – linked to human development,” he added. “That survival is with these guys.”

However, while rapid deforestation can be eliminated in Brazil’s cattle industry, raising cattle produces more methane, more greenhouse gases than CO2.

About 70% of Brazil’s agricultural output comes from cow dung, as well as other activities, according to Imaflora.

“It’s more, and if you can add this to the air from the forest to herd cattle it’s more,” said co-worker Isabel Garcia Drigo.

Researchers say that solutions to these problems include additional agricultural methods that help improve yields, as well as shorten the life span of cattle, which is much longer than in the US or Canada. Another goal is animal feed, either supplementation or various grasses, to reduce the methane content of the animal.

“The cost of changing the brand is minimal,” Drigo said. “If [the meatpackers] we donated a lot of money to help farmers reduce their emissions, yes, it is possible. ”

JBS has invested $ 1bn in decarbonization over the next decade and Tomazoni is showcasing “regenerative” agricultural activities that include livestock and crops and forests, helping to establish carbon dioxide. JBS plans to spend $ 100m on R&D by 2030 to support this type of farming.

The Food and Drug Administration provided $ 4.6bn (US $ 860m) last year.

Minerva has invested R $ 1.5bn in air reduction and Marfrig R $ 500m, mainly for the year 2030. Last year the companies acquired a total of R $ 697m and R $ 3.3bn, respectively.

Despite further enlightenment, some fear that the encouragement may not be appropriate for animal carriers to take immediate action.

In both cases, the demand for cattle worldwide has remained strong and the quality of the kraal in Brazil has gone down in history. While Minerva’s stock has declined slightly, the share prices of JBS and Marfrig have gained at least a quarter of 2021, surpassing most of the Brazilian market.

Critics have criticized what this section has done too far. For example, JBS plans to eliminate illegal logging in the Amazon by 2025, in some Brazilian biomes five years later – and finally free logging by 2035.

As a retail market, manufacturers can see if they can take their products elsewhere if they do not like meat.

“It is unreasonable to rely on so many promises from emerging companies. . . they are air producers, “said Daniela Montalto, an Greenpeace dean.” We are talking about land grabbers, places where they are hiding illegal cattle in slaughterhouses. “

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