PMI Foods is a major buyer and shipper of Brazilian beef, almost all of it to China. But it's biggest supplier of Brazilian beef has been cited for raising.
PMI Foods is a major buyer and shipper of Brazilian beef, almost all of it to China. But it's biggest supplier of Brazilian beef has been cited for raising.
PMI Foods is a major buyer and shipper of Brazilian beef, almost all of it to China. But it's biggest supplier of Brazilian beef has been cited for raising.
According to data analysis by The Associated Press and the Rainforest Investigations Network, a nonprofit reporting consortium, an American company is among the key beef suppliers and distributors contributing to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. A little-known Utah-based meat trader, PMI Foods, has shipped more than $1.7 billion in Brazilian beef over the last decade, almost all of it to China. PMI’s role provides a window into how the growing international beef trade is fueling destruction of the world’s largest rainforest, and how middlemen who contribute to that trade have avoided scrutiny.
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