Greenpeace petitions Dutch courts to order JBS to disclose how its aims are compatible with responsibilities to climate and human rights
At the centre of the petition against JBS is a perceived lack of transparency over its massive expansion plans in Nigeria. In the coming years, the meat company plans to invest $2.5bn in six giant meat-processing plants that are seen as a bridgehead to the fast-growing African market.
Civil society groups say there is scant information about whether JBS has assessed the social and environmental consequences of this plan, which would threaten smallholder farmers, domestic food security, land-use priorities, as well as locking in huge quantities of methane emissions. Methane is one of the most climate-destabilising greenhouse gases.
āThis is the biggest agriculture investment that I have heard of in Nigeriaās history but there have been few details and no consultation for civil society,ā said Elujulo Opeyemi, the spokesperson for Youth in Agroecology and Restoration Network.
