Last year Brazil's three largest meatpackers signed pacts to change their practices after Greenpeace released its "Slaughtering the Amazon" report exposing links between cattle ranching in the Amazon region and deforestation. Now, according Greenpeace, the meatpackers have suspended cattle purchases from as many as 221 ranches located on indigenous land, conservation areas or near recently-deforested areas in the Amazon.
The AE Brazil Newswire quotes Greenpeace campaign coordinator Marcio Astrini as saying the initiative shows that meatpackers understood - in a clear and definitive way - consumers' environmental concern message. Astrini also says that by the end of the year a much larger number of ranches will be excluded from the companies' cattle supplier list.
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