Environmental organizations and indigenous peoples criticize the French group for lacking in its duty of vigilance concerning its beef supply chain in Brazil and Colombia.
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“We are here to follow what is happening behind us, at the Paris judicial court, and to tell you what is happening with us, in Brazil.” Representatives of Aboriginal peoples From Amazonia took the floor, Thursday, June 9, in Paris on Thursday, June 9, on the occasion of the first hearing of the legal action initiated against the French group Casino, accused of participating in the deforestation of Brazil and Colombia, and to commit human rights attacks by selling beef produced in these countries locally.
Supervised by banners brandished by rebellion extinction activists, in front of wooden logs placed on the ground, they called on civil society to mobilize: “The network of Casino supermarkets feeds deforestation in Amazon and Brazilian Cerrado . We need your help to fight against these practices because the headquarters of this company is here, “insisted Dinamam TUXA, member of the articulation of the native peoples of Brazil (APIB).
The Casino group was assigned to justice in March 2021 by an international coalition of eleven actors (the coordination of native organizations of the Brazilian Amazon, the Federation of Indigenous Peoples of Para, the Federation of Peoples and Aboriginal Organizations of Mato Basically, green flight, Mighty Earth, France Nature Environnement, etc.) for breach of its duty of vigilance. The law adopted in 2017 obliges large companies to prevent damage to human rights and the environment, including when committed by their direct or indirect subsidiaries. However, according to environmental associations and indigenous peoples, Casino lacks its obligations in Brazil and Colombia, where it is one of the biggest players in the distribution market.
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They support them on several recent reports carried out by various organizations (the Reporter Brasil collective, Global Witness, Environmental Investigation Agency, Amnesty International, etc.). According to these surveys, Casino, through its AçaCar and exito Pao subsidiaries, sells meat from slaughterhouses themselves supplied with farms participating in deforestation and serious damage to the rights of indigenous peoples . This would be the case, for example, of the JBS meat giant, one of the group suppliers.
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