Nearly 17% of the cattle bought by JBS SA in Brazil's Para state in the Amazon rainforest allegedly came from ranches with "irregularities" such as illegal deforestation, according to an audit by ...

But Brazil's cattle remain mostly grass-fed, using more pasture and leading ranches to specialize in particular stages of the animals' growth.

Canary Media’s Eating the Earth column explores the connections between the food we eat and the climate we live in. PARANAÍTA, Brazil — Cattle are a huge problem.

Some 300 members of Brazil's Landless Peasants' Movement (MST) took over an estate belonging to an associate of the country's president in the state of Sao Paulo Monday, organization spokesmen said.

Around half of Brazil’s beef exports and almost a quarter of soy exports to the European Union could be linked to illegal deforestation in the country’s pristine forest areas, according to a ...

Brazil's JBS, one of the world's largest meat processing firms, bought cattle from two ranches that later ended up on Brazil's "dirty list" of companies that employed slave labor, the anti-slavery ...

BRASILIA, Brazil - Armed with shotguns and bows and arrows, thousands of Brazilian Indians invaded ranches near the border with Paraguay to claim what they say is ancestral land, state officials ...

The Rockefeller brothers own 40% of a 1,000,000-acre cattle ranch in the rich Mato Grosso (see map}, which they operate jointly with Brazil’s Ambassador to Washington Walther Moreira Salles.

SAO PAULO — Federal police ordered some 200 Terena Indians to leave a former congressman's ranch in south-central Brazil on Thursday in the latest flashpoint of a widening conflict over land ...

But Brazil's cattle remain mostly grass-fed, using more pasture and leading ranches to specialize in particular stages of the animals' growth.