Major Brazilian supermarket chain will stop stocking Amazon-destroying beef
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Pão de Açúcar, which operates 832 stores across the country, has pledged to stop stocking its shelves with beef linked to Amazon deforestation or produced by enslaved workers by June 30.
“We have worked to mitigate the social and environmental risks of our supply chains,” a company spokeswoman said, according to Reuters.
Environmental activists hailed Pão de Açúcar’s decision as a major victory for the Amazon, but cautioned that the hard work still must be done. “To operate in the Amazon, companies must stop buying from farms involved in land grabbing, slavery or deforestation,” Adriana Charoux of Greenpeace told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “They have a lot of work to do before June 30.”