Earthsight’s new report, Secret Ingredient: The ties between European chicken and illegalities in the Brazilian Cerrado, will reveal how chicken products sold by a popular fast-food giant and leading European supermarkets are linked to land grabbing, rights abuses, corruption and deforestation in the Brazilian Cerrado.

Products made from European chickens are raised on animal feed that contains soy exported to the EU by Bunge and Cargill – two of the world’s largest soy traders with a history of links to deforestation and rights abuses in Brazil.

The report will show the dire environmental and human impacts of expanding soy production in Brazil to serve global markets, including Europe’s supermarkets, and how global corporations are failing in their responsibilities to monitor and mitigate such impacts.

Expected publication date: 06:00 BST, 18 September 2024