As the world’s largest protein company, there is little more important to us than the health and welfare of the animals across our value chain. We are thrilled to have this hard work recognised after being placed in Tier 3 of the 9th edition of The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW); the global annual report on animal husbandry.

With active multiprotein operations across the globe, we continue to abide by our commitments while continually enhancing our policies and actions. This is reflected in the latest BBFAW report which shows that the scores of JBS are higher than the industry average industry in all criteria evaluated.

JBS continually adopts a careful approach to the quality and security of food at every phase of the production chain, which all begins with how the animals are looked after. In 2020, the Company invested R$ 162.8 million in animal welfare advances in Brazil, training over 27,000 people about the issue, including employees, producers and suppliers.

JBS maintains the optimum levels of animal welfare through its utilisation of specialized teams for each type of protein it processes (poultry, pork and beef), employing techniques that are constantly enhanced according to best domestic and international market practices monitored by its Animal Welfare Committee.

As evidenced by the deployment of our Transparent Livestock Platform to remove illegal deforestation from our value chain, JBS is committed to using the very latest technologies to increase sustainability and transparency across our operations.

This extends to animal welfare where JBS’ beef operations are so far the only industry in Brazil to use cameras to monitor the evaluation of animal welfare indicators at 100% of its units. Our new projects also include Animal Farm 4.0, whose benefits include monitoring of the animals within the farms using sensors that provide real-time information about parameters such as ambient temperature and humidity, air quality, weight and even the behaviour of the animals.