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Brazilian beef and leather companies fall short in tackling deforestation, a study finds
1 week, 5 days ago

Brazilian beef and leather companies fall short in tackling deforestation, a study finds

The Independent  

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Brazilian beef and leather companies fall short in tackling deforestation, a study finds
1 week, 5 days ago

Brazilian beef and leather companies fall short in tackling deforestation, a study finds

Associated Press  

BRASILIA, Brazil — The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation mainly driven by cattle farming has turned the surrounding rainforest from a vital carbon sink into a significant carbon source. Now a new report concludes around 80% of Brazil’s leading beef and cow leather companies and …

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Trump Won’t Be Able to Save the Struggling US Beef Industry
2 weeks ago

Trump Won’t Be Able to Save the Struggling US Beef Industry

Live Mint  

He has manned the McDonald’s drive-thru, served Big Macs in the White House and peddled Trump Steaks on cable TV. But even a red-meat loving President-elect like Donald Trump won’t be able to save the struggling US beef industry. “All of the things he is talking about have potential negative consequences more so than anything positive,” Derrell Peel, a professor …

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Brazil fines meatpacking companies, including giant JBS, for buying illegally raised cattle
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Brazil fines meatpacking companies, including giant JBS, for buying illegally raised cattle

The Independent  

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The billionaires' trick to keep people from voting
2 months, 4 weeks ago

The billionaires' trick to keep people from voting

Raw Story  

Outside of Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan, just about all American billionaires are white. L. Paul Bremer was their front man, arriving in Iraq on May 2, 2003, to begin the process of “freeing” the country’s economy so that the world’s corporations would flood in and create a paradise. As Naomi Klein wrote for Harper’s Magazine in an article titled …

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Judge in Brazil orders slaughterhouses to pay for Amazon reforestation
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Judge in Brazil orders slaughterhouses to pay for Amazon reforestation

The Independent  

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TSRTC to Ply Electric Buses Between Nizamabad and Hyderabad Soon
3 months, 3 weeks ago

TSRTC to Ply Electric Buses Between Nizamabad and Hyderabad Soon

Deccan Chronicle  

Nizamabad: The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation is all set to ply electric buses between Nizamabad and Hyderabad soon. For Nizamabad region, 13 electric super luxury buses were allotted that will ply between Nizamabad and Jubilee Bus Station in Secunderabad. TGSRTC officials are busy with the registration process of the electric buses with the state transport department. Speaking to Deccan …

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Scandal-laden Brazilian slaughterhouse billionaires tricked Trump into deadly policy: book
6 months, 1 week ago

Scandal-laden Brazilian slaughterhouse billionaires tricked Trump into deadly policy: book

Raw Story  

A 60-year-old grandmother died without ever meeting her only grandchild after contracting COVID-19 in a slaughterhouse former President Donald Trump ordered to remain open at the behest of scandal-laden Brazilian billionaire backers who misled his administration, according to a new report. Tin Aye's death was one of hundreds the Trump administration "sacrificed" to protect meat monopolies pursuing billions in profits …

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Meet the uber-wealthy families who control much of the food system in the US and Australia
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Meet the uber-wealthy families who control much of the food system in the US and Australia

ABC  

Austin Frerick's interest in mega-rich farmers began in 2018, while he was perched on a stool in a hipster dive bar in Iowa during a competitive local political campaign. Frerick says the other advantage of the family's anonymity is that "it's actually really, really hard to find out what they own, how much they own, where they operate". The grocery …

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Bid by meatpacker JBS to join New York Stock Exchange faces opposition over Amazon deforestation
11 months ago

Bid by meatpacker JBS to join New York Stock Exchange faces opposition over Amazon deforestation

Associated Press  

BRASILIA, Brazil — In recent weeks, lawmakers in the United States and the United Kingdom have sent letters to the Securities and Exchange Commission cautioning against the listing of JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company, on the New York Stock Exchange. “The company has made repeated claims that it will eliminate deforestation but has not taken meaningful steps to do …

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Takeaways from lawsuits accusing meat giant JBS, others of contributing to Amazon deforestation
1 year ago

Takeaways from lawsuits accusing meat giant JBS, others of contributing to Amazon deforestation

Associated Press  

JACI-PARANA, Brazil — Authorities in a western Brazil state are taking aim at deforestation of the Amazon with a slew of lawsuits against slaughterhouses and farmers accused of illegally raising cattle in a protected area. The state of Rondonia has brought the lawsuits against meat processing giant JBS and three smaller slaughterhouses, along with farmers accused of raising and selling …

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Brazil lawsuits allege direct relationship between meatpackers, deforesters on protected land
1 year ago

Brazil lawsuits allege direct relationship between meatpackers, deforesters on protected land

Associated Press  

JACI-PARANA, Brazil — Meat processing giant JBS SA and three other slaughterhouses are facing lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in environmental damages for allegedly purchasing cattle raised illegally in a protected area in the Brazilian Amazon. Meat processing giant JBS SA and three other slaughterhouses are facing lawsuits for their alleged direct purchase of cattle raised illegally in a protected …

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China lifts restrictions on Australian abattoirs as trade tensions ease
1 year ago

China lifts restrictions on Australian abattoirs as trade tensions ease

ABC  

China has lifted suspensions on three Australian abattoirs as it continues to ease trade restrictions on Australian goods. Key points: Three abattoirs suspended from trade by China in mid-2020 have been allowed to resume The trade bans were widely considered as economic punishment by China due to political tensions Several other abattoirs remain on China's trade blacklist Meat exports were …

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Occupancy of women passengers shoots up in TSRTC buses
1 year ago

Occupancy of women passengers shoots up in TSRTC buses

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: It was around 4.30 pm when a Komaravelli-bound Palle Velugu bus arrived at the platform in Jubilee Bus Station. A 35-year-old Nandan Kumar, who boarded the bus along with his sister, had a tough time getting a seat, which he finally got in the last row. Kumar said that when they boarded the bus, they were surprised to see …

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Executives praise expo as significant platform
1 year, 1 month ago

Executives praise expo as significant platform

China Daily  

JBS representatives hold talks with clients at its booth at the sixth CIIE. Event offers new opportunities for Brazilian supplier JBS, one of the largest protein-based food suppliers in the world, is looking forward to exploring new opportunities with Chinese partners through the China International Import Expo and creating a win-win situation together, said Danilo Escobar Izeli, president of Asia …

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How an American meat broker is fueling Amazon deforestation
1 year, 1 month ago

How an American meat broker is fueling Amazon deforestation

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — As incomes in China have grown in the last decade, so has China’s appetite for beef. For its part, Brazil’s Environment Ministry said independent audits have shown that major meat processors are still buying significant quantities of cattle raised on deforested land through their indirect suppliers. Daniel Azeredo, a Brazilian federal prosecutor who has led crackdowns on illegal …

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TSRTC offers special tour to Srisailam
1 year, 5 months ago

TSRTC offers special tour to Srisailam

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation on Wednesday announced a special tour package for devotees visiting Srisailam. The package, involves visit to Mallikarjuna Swamy, Bhraramamba Devi, Sakshi Ganapati darshan and other places in Srisailam, including Pathalganga, Paladhara, Panchadhara, Shikhara, Srisailam Dam, etc. The bus will reach Srisailam at 1.30 pm and go directly to the hotel for stay. Devotees …

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Dutch pension funds withdrawing from meat industry
1 year, 8 months ago

Dutch pension funds withdrawing from meat industry

NL Times  

Several Dutch pension funds are pulling out of large Brazilian meat companies because they don’t meet the pension funds’ sustainability requirements, Financieele Dagblad reports. “Livestock farming causes large amounts of methane and CO2 emissions and is, therefore, a factor in climate change,” a spokesperson for the metal and technology sector’s pension fund PME said to the newspaper. “After fossil fuels, …

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Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5M for hiring minors
1 year, 10 months ago

Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5M for hiring minors

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — One of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs at 13 meatpacking plants across the country, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday as it announced over $1.5 million in civil penalties. Over the past three years, children were found to be using caustic cleaning chemicals and cleaning …

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Investigators: Firm that cleans meat plants employed minors
2 years, 1 month ago

Investigators: Firm that cleans meat plants employed minors

Associated Press  

— A Wisconsin company that cleans hundreds of meatpacking plants nationwide is defending itself against allegations that it employed more than two dozen minors working overnight shifts cleaning massive saws, grinding machines and other dangerous processing equipment at three slaughterhouses. Labor Department officials said in court documents that they believe Packers Sanitation Services Inc. might be employing underage workers at …

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Problematic or perilous: Brazil’s environmental choice
2 years, 4 months ago

Problematic or perilous: Brazil’s environmental choice

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — One president of Brazil built a giant dam that wrought tremendous damage in the Amazon rainforest. As Brazilians head to elections in October, they have two choices: Jair Bolsonaro who shows open contempt for the rainforest’s protected areas, and their former president da Silva. In da Silva’s view of his own tenure, he reduced deforestation, created …

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Problematic or perilous: Brazil's environmental choice
2 years, 4 months ago

Problematic or perilous: Brazil's environmental choice

The Independent  

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Sysco accuses 4 largest beef processors of price fixing
2 years, 5 months ago

Sysco accuses 4 largest beef processors of price fixing

Associated Press  

— The nation’s largest food distributor has joined the other businesses accusing the four largest meat processors of working together to inflate beef prices. The Sysco Corp. lawsuit said the companies’ coordinated efforts to limit the number of cattle slaughtered drove down the price meat processors paid ranchers while propping up beef prices, boosting profits for the meat producers, who …

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Smithfield Foods settles pork price-fixing lawsuit for $42M
2 years, 5 months ago

Smithfield Foods settles pork price-fixing lawsuit for $42M

Associated Press  

— Smithfield Foods will pay restaurants and caterers $42 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the giant meat producer of conspiring to inflate pork prices, which will likely only add to concerns about how the lack of competition in the industry affects meat prices. Previously, Smithfield settled with a different group of pork buyers for $83 million, and JBS …

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