The World's Biggest Meat Company Is Built on Corruption – Four Corners
An explosive Four Corners investigation reveals widespread corruption within the world’s largest meat company—and how its unchecked expansion in Australia raises serious ethical and environmental concerns.
You may not be familiar with it, but JBS is the world’s largest meat company. It controls a significant portion of the food you purchase at the supermarket, including beef, pork, lamb, and salmon.
You’ll even find their meat between the buns of your burger at McDonald’s. But despite its size and reach, JBS is a company built on corruption and bribery, tainted by charges and accusations of malpractice and environmental crimes. While some foreign governments are holding the company to account,
Australian politicians have given JBS the green light to grow. Why?
Learn more about Klean’s solutions:
Behind Every Steak Lies a System — Will It Be Circular or Corrupt?
The global meat industry’s unchecked growth is fueling environmental degradation, regulatory loopholes, and ethical failures. It’s time for climate-smart, transparent, and circular food production systems.
Klean Industries Is Leading Change Through:
✅ Carbon-reducing technologies for agri-industrial waste
✅ Closed-loop systems for methane recovery and nutrient reuse
✅ ESG monitoring through the KleanLoop™ platform
✅ Strategic insight into ethical, low-emission production alternatives
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