Mighty Earth ("powerful earth") asked Carrefour to respect the commitments made to fight against deforestation in the Amazon, reports

Le Figaro

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In a report published Monday on the occasion of World Amazon Day, the environmental NGO criticizes the distribution group for sourcing from “meat and soy traders with devastating practices.

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The organization highlights the group's activities in Brazil.

There, with its 1,000 points of sale, Carrefour controls 25% of the food distribution market.

The NGO noticed that two thirds of the 102 meat products “inspected in Carrefour stores in Brazil are supplied by JBS”.

However, this company, “the largest meat processor in the world”, is “regularly targeted for cases of deforestation” deplores Mighty Earth.

It's #Amazonia Day!🌳 We point out the lack of vigilance of the @GroupeCarrefour vis-à-vis its #meat suppliers, largely involved in #deforestation



👉 Find out why #CarrefourNousEnfume: https://t .co/juvSuSrDWJ#journeedelamazonie #AmazonDay pic.twitter.com/HG6705sLRS

— Mighty Earth 🌍 (@StandMighty) September 5, 2022

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The devastating culture of soy

In response to the NGO's investigation, Carrefour decided to suspend deliveries of beef from two JBS slaughterhouses in the Amazon.

“Ceasing to source from two JBS slaughterhouses, which represents for Carrefour 12% of its beef in Brazil, is a first step, but the road remains long”, notes Mighty Earth in its press release of August 30. .

The NGO also points in its report to the supply of soybeans intended for feeding farms.

Bunge, an American company, imports this soybean, the cultivation of which is responsible for massive deforestation in Brazil.

And LDC, which supplies Carrefour with chickens and eggs for its stores in France, gets its supplies from Bunge.

More ambition

"We are asking Carrefour to be transparent on the supply chain and to have more ambition", underlined Boris Patentreger, France director of the NGO, who is asking that "JBS, Bunge or Cargill" be excluded from the commercial relations with the distribution group.

Carrefour is pursuing the objective of reducing its supplies from areas considered to be particularly at risk by 50% by 2026.

This will be 100% in 2030. In 2020, the group signed a manifesto "for the mobilization of French players to fight against imported deforestation linked to soy" and took the co-management of a commercial alliance to protect forests, recalls Francetvinfo.

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