Slave labor

Marãiwatsédé Indigenous Lands, embargoes and slave labor

According to an article in Valor, JBS was notified by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office for buying cattle from farms with irregularities, including areas located within the Marãiwatsédé Indigenous Land in Mato Grosso state, farms that had been embargoed by Ibama and a property that was listed on the “dirty list” of labor analogous to slavery. At the time, according to the MPF, the company was given a deadline to respond since the purchases violated a previous agreement with the company, in which JBS had undertaken not to buy animals from areas associated with this type of irregularities.

By patosarda|2025-04-28T18:40:39-03:0019/10/2011|Slave labor, Social and environmental impacts|0 Comments

Slave labor in the production chain

JBS bought 889 head of cattle from a farm in Santa Terezinha (in Mato Grosso state) where modern slavery was found, according to a Greenpeace International report. During an inspection conducted by the Ministry of Labor, nine workers were found in conditions analogous to slavery in this farm, which was then included in the Federal Government’s “dirty list” of labor analogous to slavery.

By patosarda|2025-04-28T18:52:06-03:0009/06/2009|Slave labor|0 Comments

Pact against slave labor

JBS, then Friboi, signed the National Pact for the Eradication of Slave Labor, in which it pledged to eliminate slave labor from its supply chains, as reported by Repórter Brasil. According to the commitment, it was supposed to cut off commercial relations with employers included on the “dirty list of slave labor” and with suppliers who bought from them, but it failed to address this problem. In 2009, a report by Greenpeace International, Slaughtering the Amazon, revealed that the company had amongst its suppliers farms caught using labor analogous to slavery in its supply chain.

By patosarda|2025-04-27T12:46:59-03:0016/05/2007|Commitments, Slave labor|0 Comments