Meat giants JBS, Marfrig and Minerva all bought cattle from deforested areas.

More than 800 million trees have been cut down in the Amazon rainforest in just six years.

More than 800m trees have been cut down in the Amazon rainforest in just six years to feed the world’s appetite for Brazilian beef.

The UK government allowed food companies to supply supermarkets with contaminated meat, despite consumer deaths.

A major meat supplier to UK supermarkets is sourcing chickens dosed with antibiotics linked to the spread of deadly superbugs.

ITV News has found Asda, Iceland and Lidl are buying chickens from a Polish producer despite serious health warnings.

A major supplier of chicken to UK supermarkets is sourcing birds dosed with antibiotics “critical to human health”.

New undercover footage showing British pigs being gassed prior to slaughter has led to renewed calls to investigate the use of CO2.

For the first time an investigation has linked collagen powder to violence against Indigenous peoples in Brazilian forests

Xinuxi Mỹky says this region used to be a forest where different villages thrived. Only one now remains and the farms have cut into that land as well. “This pasture, where the whites live, was also our village, but now they are raising cattle."

On one side of the fence, amid dense forest, the Mỹky people grow their crops: cassava, pequi and cabriteiro fruit. On the other, ranchers raise cattle on devastated land that has been seized from the Indigenous community.

Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence.

Inside the farmhouse, piles of paperwork are laid out across a vast table; print outs, reports, statistics, scientific research, correspondence. Pedersen shows me photos — there’s more piglets with spinal deformities, their back legs dragging on the ground; others have visible problems with their faces, limbs or tails. There’s even a siamese twin — two animals joined at the head.