European supermarkets stop selling Brazilian beef

BEEF - AFP PHOTO Measure will be taken by six networks, from four countries, including a subsidiary of Carrefour. Six European supermarket chains, including two owned by the Dutch company Ahold Delhaize and a subsidiary of Carrefour, said on Wednesday (15) they will no longer sell part or all of Brazil's beef products due to links to deforestation of the Amazon forest. The commitments range from the announcement by supermarket chain Lidl Netherlands, which has pledged to stop selling all beef originating in South America from 2022, to more targeted decisions to suspend the sale of certain meat products. Many of the affected products are from JBS, the world's largest meat processor. The boycotts are a reaction to an investigation by the organization Repórter Brasil, which alleged that JBS used beef from pasture cows in illegally deforested areas, in a scheme known as "cattle washing". The scheme occurs when cattle raised on a illegally deforested plot of land are sold to a ...