Greenpeace has beef with Tesco over deforestation claim
Tesco has reaffirmed its commitment to ethical sourcing after being accused by Greenpeace of selling beef from illegally deforested land in Brazil.
In a report issued this morning, Greenpeace claimed to have found Tesco selling beef from a supplier using farms linked with illegal deforestation in the Amazon.
Tesco said it had started to cut back its supplies from the supplier a year ago and had since ceased sourcing any canned beef products from the company.
“We are committed to tackling deforestation, including working with other consumer goods companies (through the Consumer Goods Forum) to help end deforestation by 202,” the supermarket said.
Ethics and sustainability remained an important part of its dialogue with suppliers, it added.
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Dave Wood | 06 Jun 2012 15:12
Greenpeace is a North American NGO. North America exports beef - lots of it - in competition with Brazil. The more beef Brazil exports, the lower the price US farmers get. The same applies to soyabean and maize. Greenpeace works in the interest of rich farmers in North America and against the economic interest of Brazil as an exporter (and China and the UK and other beef importing countries). As Greenpeace funding is anonymous, there is no way they can prove they are not being funded specifically to increase the value North American beef exports. The Amazon and cerrado are just an environmentalist smokescreen.
We certainly need to be educated in export protectionism and paying higher prices for beef - which is what Greenpeace is up to.
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