Brazil’s center-right government has since worked to prevent other nations from banning its meat entirely, It has tried to frame the crisis as one involving bribery in the 21 plants, not ...

The meat-processing plants were responsible for spreading COVID-19 not only among their own workers, but throughout municipalities and entire regions of Brazil.

A report published by the Taquari Valley University (Univates) in Lajeado, a city with a high concentration of meat-processing plants in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, concluded that the ...

At 20.6 million heads, it has 2.5 cattle for every human inhabitant. 14 of the 22 Brazilian meat plants approved to export to China since 2019 are in the Amazon.

Minverva also had two plants approved - beef sites in Rolim de Moura and Palmeiras de Goiás, which have a combined slaughter capacity of 3,500 heads per day. These two, combined with the Barretos ...

Cargill has announced plans today (2 February) to build a new corn processing plant in Brazil to produce starches and sweeteners. The agribusiness giant plans to invest BRL350m (US$210m) to ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Switzerland has extended a ban on Brazilian meat to 21 processing plants from four as part of Europe-wide safety measures, Swiss authorities said on Sunday.

Brazil-based JBS, the world’s largest meat-processing company, which has come under fire for its role in illegal deforestation in the Amazon, last year launched a line of plant-based products ...

The world’s largest meat-processing giant was forced to shut down some of its US plants as more than 100 of its workers tested positive for COVID-19 last week, but the pandemic may be the least ...