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.
Why it matters
This case represents a significant legal precedent, potentially extending climate-related litigation from the fossil fuel industry to the global agriculture and food production sectors.
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
Prefer the Guardian on Google The world’s biggest meat company, JBS, faces a landmark legal challenge to disclose how its $6bn (£4.5bn) global expansion plan is compatible with responsibilities to the climate, nature and human rights.
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