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Revealed: US diners more exposed than ever to Amazon deforestation

28.08.2025 Nearly a quarter of Brazilian beef consumed in the US comes from Amazonian slaughterhouses

American pie keeps growing for high-risk Amazon slaughterhouses

10.11.2022 New analysis explores how growing US appetite for Brazilian beef is exposing consumers to ever increasing risks of having their dinner plates contaminated by Amazon deforestation

If it truly aspires to leadership on climate and forests, the US must first break its addiction to the products driving their destruction

08.11.2022 The US has pledged to end deforestation, but it continues to fund destruction overseas via imports of forest-risk commodities

Amazon slaughterhouses eye greater share of American pie as Brazil beef sales surge

23.09.2021 New facilities in the Brazilian Amazon approved for export increase US exposure to environmental crimes and underline the need for binding regulations

More suspect Amazon beef is US-bound after facilities in deforestation hotspots approved

23.09.2021 Beef sold in the US increasingly likely to be linked to illegal deforestation amid growing exports from Brazilian Amazon states

Agribusiness lobby seeking to tame planned UK imported deforestation law

25.05.2021 Trade bodies for global beef, soy and palm oil firms fail to support strong supply chain regulation

Impunity for German car giants assured after ethical supply chain law gutted

23.02.2021 German Cabinet set to approve “toothless” law that fails forests and indigenous peoples


Huge emissions risks in Europe’s Brazilian beef carbon lottery

02.09.2020 New Earthsight report reveals how Europe likely outsourced millions of GHG emissions to Brazil last year

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