JBS joined the Livestock Pact as part of the São Paulo-Amazon Sustainable Connections initiative promoted by the Ethos Institute. The aim of the initiative was to ensure that their suppliers were not on the “dirty list” of labor analogous to slavery or operating in areas embargoed by Ibama. But the following year, the report "Slaughtering the Amazon", by Greenpeace International, revealed that JBS had companies involved in modern slavery and deforestation among its suppliers.