We don't need to buy beef from Brazil, and we ought not. It's nearly impossible to audit every meatpacking supply chain in a foreign country if the local govern

We don't need to buy beef from Brazil, and we ought not. It's nearly impossible to audit every meatpacking supply chain in a foreign country if the local government doesn't cooperate. JBS does business with American fast food companies, yet it repeatedly gets caught with its pants down in the Amazon. Sanctions are supposed to provide a disincentive for otherwise incentivized behaviors, by using revenue as a pressure point to turn marginal returns negative for those bad behaviors. Deforestation is one of the most discoverable activities on the globe due to satellite imagery, so it would be easy to modulate sanctions in real time. Trade is a two-party business, and there is no ethical reason to continue enriching businesses or countries that do bad things for money. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/revealed-new-evidence-links-brazil-meat-giant-jbs-to-amazon-deforestation https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/revealed...