{"id":35460,"date":"2025-01-18T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T20:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/back-to-brazil-cargill-launches-a-new-threat-to-the-amazon-the-understory\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T20:41:23","slug":"back-to-brazil-cargill-launches-a-new-threat-to-the-amazon-the-understory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460","title":{"rendered":"Back to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon – The Understory"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

In 1987, RAN successfully pressured Burger King to cancel $35 million in cattle contracts that were turning rainforests into grazing land.<\/strong> Since that historic first win, we have continued to expose the corporations making huge profits from destroying the Amazon region.<\/p>\n

Recently we partnered with international and Brazilian NGOs and local communities to expose America\u2019s largest private company, the agribusiness behemoth Cargill, for their impact in the region. Cargill has previous experience with RAN. In 2007, RAN launched a campaign calling on US agribusiness giants, including Cargill, to clean up their dirty palm oil supply chains. RAN kept pressure<\/a> on Cargill until the company committed to take responsibility for its Conflict Palm Oil problem in 2014. Shortly after, Cargill issued a sweeping zero deforestation commitment that extended this pledge to all its commodities across its global operations. While the policy was groundbreaking, Cargill has unsurprisingly failed to deliver on this commitment.<\/p>\n

The Negative Impacts of Soy<\/h2>\n

More recently, Cargill committed<\/a> to reduce its emissions by 10% by 2025 and pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its US beef supply by 30% over the next decade. Yet, Cargill is also expanding operations further into the Brazilian Amazon, a critical region in the fight against climate change. Cargill and other major soy traders are pushing for the development of the Ferrogr\u00e3o, a 933 kilometer railway to enable soy produced in the state of Mato Grosso to be exported through the Amazon. Soy export ports already have created massive negative impacts on Indigenous and traditional communities \u2014 and those impacts will be exacerbated if the Ferrogr\u00e3o project goes ahead.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/span>To tackle this problem, RAN is going after Cargill\u2019s financiers. This year, we met with Citi and Bank of America to expose the multiple problems inherent in Cargill\u2019s port development project. Additionally, we highlighted Cargill as a key offender in our report \u201cBanking on Biodiversity Collapse<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Supporting Local Partners<\/h2>\n

While we worked the corporate engagement angle, our Brazilian partners, Federa\u00e7\u00e3o de \u00d3rg\u00e3os para Assist\u00eancia Social e Educacional (FASE<\/a>) and Movimento pela Soberania Popular na Minera\u00e7\u00e3o (MAM<\/a>), are supporting local communities in their resistance against Cargill\u2019s port project. These partners exposed a decades-long history of deforestation and human rights violations for soy production in the Amazon and elevated the urgent call from communities to protect the Amazon. This included developing a youth-led radio program to educate communities around the plans for the Cargill port, coordinating communications workshops in the Quilombola Territories, Laranjituba, and \u00c1frica, in Abaetetuba, aligning CSOs on demands, and holding public demonstrations against the Ferrogr\u00e3o project. Partners also provided technical inputs to the Ministry of Transport on the inviability of the Ferrogr\u00e3o and even filed a lawsuit about the communities\u2019 rights to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent on decisions about the Ferrogr\u00e3o.<\/p>\n

Even though the fight is far from over, we know our tactics are working. Communities have been successful in slowing down Cargill\u2019s expansion plans and a recent lawsuit accusing Cargill of violating the rights of the impacted communities has resulted in a suspension of their operating license. Our efforts are a critical part of an international movement, bringing people and communities together to stop Cargill\u2019s port project, protect the Amazon, and defend Indigenous rights.<\/p>\n

\"\"\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1987, RAN successfully pressured Burger King to cancel $35 million in cattle contracts that were turning rainforests into grazing land. Since that historic first win, we have continued to expose the corporations making huge profits from destroying the Amazon region. Recently we partnered with international and Brazilian NGOs and local communities to expose America\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12022],"tags":[2100,5525,23356,10851,14898,16100],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-35460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activist","tag-amazon","tag-brazil","tag-cargill","tag-launches","tag-threat","tag-understory"],"yoast_head":"\nBack to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon - The Understory - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Back to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon - The Understory - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 1987, RAN successfully pressured Burger King to cancel $35 million in cattle contracts that were turning rainforests into grazing land. Since that historic first win, we have continued to expose the corporations making huge profits from destroying the Amazon region. Recently we partnered with international and Brazilian NGOs and local communities to expose America\u2019s […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-18T20:41:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bobc-blog-3-IMG_20240425_164508_147-1-e1729792610936.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"618\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371\"},\"headline\":\"Back to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon – The Understory\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-18T20:41:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460\"},\"wordCount\":556,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bobc-blog-3-IMG_20240425_164508_147-1-e1729792610936.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Amazon\",\"brazil\",\"Cargill\",\"launches\",\"threat\",\"Understory\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Activist\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460\",\"name\":\"Back to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon - The Understory - Som2ny Network\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bobc-blog-3-IMG_20240425_164508_147-1-e1729792610936.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-18T20:41:23+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bobc-blog-3-IMG_20240425_164508_147-1-e1729792610936.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bobc-blog-3-IMG_20240425_164508_147-1-e1729792610936.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":618},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?bp_activities=1\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Back to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon – The Understory\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/\",\"name\":\"Som2ny Network\",\"description\":\"Daily Deals\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Som2ny Network\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":86,\"caption\":\"Som2ny Network\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Back to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon - The Understory - Som2ny Network","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Back to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon - The Understory - Som2ny Network","og_description":"In 1987, RAN successfully pressured Burger King to cancel $35 million in cattle contracts that were turning rainforests into grazing land. Since that historic first win, we have continued to expose the corporations making huge profits from destroying the Amazon region. Recently we partnered with international and Brazilian NGOs and local communities to expose America\u2019s […]","og_url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460","og_site_name":"Som2ny Network","article_published_time":"2025-01-18T20:41:23+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":618,"url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bobc-blog-3-IMG_20240425_164508_147-1-e1729792610936.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371"},"headline":"Back to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon – The Understory","datePublished":"2025-01-18T20:41:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460"},"wordCount":556,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bobc-blog-3-IMG_20240425_164508_147-1-e1729792610936.jpg","keywords":["Amazon","brazil","Cargill","launches","threat","Understory"],"articleSection":["Activist"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460","name":"Back to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon - The Understory - Som2ny Network","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bobc-blog-3-IMG_20240425_164508_147-1-e1729792610936.jpg","datePublished":"2025-01-18T20:41:23+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bobc-blog-3-IMG_20240425_164508_147-1-e1729792610936.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bobc-blog-3-IMG_20240425_164508_147-1-e1729792610936.jpg","width":1280,"height":618},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=35460#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?bp_activities=1"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Back to Brazil: Cargill Launches a New Threat to the Amazon – The Understory"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/","name":"Som2ny Network","description":"Daily Deals","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization","name":"Som2ny Network","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png","width":300,"height":86,"caption":"Som2ny Network"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/fivemor.com"],"url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35460"},{"taxonomy":"dealstore","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdealstore&post=35460"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fofferexpiration&post=35460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}