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.

National commitment

JBS - Friboi has undertaken to stop purchasing meat from areas embargoed by environmental enforcement agencies, Indigenous lands, and farms where labor analogous to slavery has been identified, across the entire country of Brazil. These obligations were assumed in a nationwide agreement signed with the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (Ministério Público Federal – MPF), following the signing of similar terms in the states of Pará and Mato Grosso. However, the result of subsequent audits by the MPF indicate that JBS did not reach levels considered satisfactory in the 3rd, 4th and 5th cycles carried out to assess compliance with the terms of the agreement.

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