SAO PAULO — Brazil, home to the world’s largest commercial cattle herd, will propose a new law to track cattle suppliers that sell animals to meat producers like JBS and Marfrig, as ranching is a key driver of deforestation.
In an online event on Monday, Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias told a group of journalists that the current system is ineffective to track a myriad of suppliers in the world’s largest beef exporter.
“We need a system which is effective and brings the security that the consumer needs,” Dias said.
The minister was referring specifically to Brazil’s indirect cattle suppliers, an industry of farmers who pass animals to other farms while t…
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