Meat multinational faces legal challenge over green credentials of $6bn global expansion plan
Greenpeace has filed a legal petition in the Netherlands against JBS, the world's largest meat company, demanding transparency regarding its $6 billion global expansion plan. The lawsuit aims to determine if the company's growth strategy aligns with its climate, human rights, and environmental commitments.
Cattle at a JBS facility in Tucumã, Pará, Brazil. JBS plans to invest $2.5bn in six meat-processing plants in Nigeria, which civil society groups say would threaten smallholder farmers, domestic food security and land-use priorities. Cattle at a JBS facility in Tucumã, Pará, Brazil. JBS plans to invest $2.5bn in six meat-processing plants in Nigeria, which civil society groups say would threaten smallholder farmers, domestic food security and land-use priorities. Meat industry Meat multinational faces legal challenge over green credentials of $6bn global expansion plan Greenpeace petitions Dutch courts to order JBS to disclose how its aims are compatible with responsibilities to climate and human rights
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