Tell JBS: Cut Emissions, Deforestation, and Cruelty

JBS has spent years asking the public to believe that the world’s largest meat company could keep expanding production while somehow protecting animals, forests, and the climate.

Now those promises are disappearing.

After years of promoting its climate and deforestation commitments to consumers, regulators, and investors, JBS removed its net-zero-by-2040 pledge and its deadline for eliminating deforestation from its Brazilian supply chains from its latest sustainability report.

JBS already has a climate footprint comparable to Spain’s. Globally, meat production accounts for at least 16.5 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, including pollution from animals, deforestation, land use, and growing crops for animal feed.

The company now plans to emphasize “emissions intensity”—pollution per pound of product—rather than firm reductions in its total emissions. That could allow JBS to produce more meat, kill more animals, and generate more climate pollution while still claiming progress.

This is not JBS’s first broken promise.

JBS has a long record of making promises, facing accusations of misconduct, and paying penalties after the damage is done.

New York’s attorney general sued JBS USA for allegedly using its net-zero pledge to mislead consumers about the company’s enormous climate impact. In 2025, JBS USA agreed to pay $1.1 million, change its environmental advertising, and submit to three years of state oversight.

Human Rights Watch has also traced cattle from illegal ranches in protected areas of Pará, Brazil, through supply chains that reached JBS slaughterhouses. The ranching operations were tied to illegal deforestation, land seizures, threats, and serious harm to Indigenous peoples and other forest communities.

And in 2020, JBS agreed to pay nearly $27 million to settle U.S. charges connected to a sweeping bribery scheme. Its controlling parent company separately pleaded guilty and agreed to pay more than $256 million.

Behind this record are living beings: farmed animals confined and killed on an enormous scale, and wild animals driven from their homes by cattle production and feed crops. JBS’s destructive model is harming animals, forests, and the climate—and it must stop.

Please sign the petition demanding that JBS restore enforceable climate and zero-deforestation commitments, stop expanding industrial animal agriculture, and adopt a real plan to reduce the number of animals raised and killed throughout its global supply chain.

The petition to JBS Global CEO Gilberto Tomazoni and the JBS Board of Directors reads: Restore independently verified targets to reduce JBS’s total climate pollution and eliminate deforestation and ecosystem conversion throughout its supply chain. Halt expansion that increases animal suffering, habitat destruction, and total emissions, and publish a transparent plan to reduce meat production while investing in plant-based and other lower-impact foods.
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Source:

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13072026/jbs-meat-company-abandons-climate-deforestation-goals/