Brazil’s largest coffee cooperative linked to new slave labor cases
Cooxupé accounts for about 10% of the country’s coffee exports and supplies global giants such as U.S.-based Starbucks| Repórter Brasil
Santa Colomba Agropecuária was fined by Brazil’s Ministry of Labor and Employment after a worker was handcuffed and reported being tortured by the company’s private security guards; located in western Bahia, in Brazil’s Northeast, the company supplies agribusiness multinationals The post Company fined for slave labor supplies Philip Morris and Syngenta appeared first on Repórter Brasil.| Repórter Brasil
Repórter Brasil investigation shows how cattle ranchers caught using slave labor are integrated into the supply chain of industry giants; study also found cases of invasion of indigenous lands and illegal deforestation among producers sending cattle to direct suppliers of slaughterhouses The post New cases reinforce link between slave labor and major Brazilian meatpackers appeared first on Repórter Brasil.| Repórter Brasil
Cooxupé accounts for about 10% of the country’s coffee exports and supplies global giants such as U.S.-based Starbucks| Repórter Brasil
