• Green groups decry plan to list world’s biggest meatpacking company on NYSE

    Green groups decry plan to list world’s biggest meatpacking company on NYSE
    Critics fear decision to list Brazil-based firm JBS, long linked to Amazon’s deforestation, will add to the climate crisisEnvironmental groups are outraged that the world’s biggest meatpacking company, JBS, which has long been linked to Amazon’s deforestation, has received approval from US authorities to list on the New York Stock Exchange.The decision, announced on Tuesday by the Securities Exchange Commission, follows reports that JBS subsidiary Pilgrim’s was the bigges
  • ‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’

    ‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’
    Brazil has been the world’s leading coffee producer due to the forced labour of enslaved Africans and Afro-Brazilians“John” was just days from turning 16 when he was allegedly recruited to work on a Brazilian coffee farm that supplies the global coffeehouse chain Starbucks.Soon after his birthday, he embarked on a 16-hour bus journey to the farm in the state of Minas Gerais – only to discover that none of what he had been promised would be fulfilled. Continue reading...

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