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Related: About this forumWORLD'S LARGEST MEAT COMPANY TO DEBUT NEW VEGAN MEAT LINE IN US
New vegan meat brand OZO will debut burgers, grounds, and Italian-style meatballs at retailers nationwide.
by ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA
MARCH 4, 2020
Starting in April, new brand OZO will debut a variety of plant-based meat products at retailers across the United States. The brand is owned by Planterra Foodsa US-based subsidiary of Brazils JBS SA, the worlds largest meat companyand will launch with burgers, grounds (in plain and Mexican-seasoned flavors), and Italian-style meatballs, all made with a blend of pea and rice protein that is fermented with the help of shiitake mushrooms. The product line will be priced between $5.99 to $7.99 and packaged in recyclable containers. We recognize there are other protein offerings out there, which is why were adamant on having strong points of difference in our products, Planterra Foods CEO Darcey Macken said. This category needs better tasting food from real ingredients that appeals to the whole family, and were confident that OZO products deliver. To promote the launch, OZO will embark on a nationwide tour starting this spring and through December, with the aim of giving 750,000 customers a taste of the new vegan meat line.
In Brazil, JBS launched the plant-based Incrível (Incredible) Burger under its Seara Alimentos brand last year and opened the Incredible Lab, its plant-based innovation hub, in January. This year, the company will launch five new ready-to-eat products in its plant-based portfolio across Brazil, which include vegan beef and chicken burgers, a breaded chicken snack, beef kibe, and flavored beef. JBS is not the only meat company in Brazil tapping into the global plant-based movement. Last year, Burger King began testing the Rebel Whopper at 58 outlets across Brazils capital, São Paulo, made with a plant-based patty supplied by Marfrig Global Foods SAthe worlds largest producer of animal-based hamburgers.
https://vegnews.com/2020/3/world-s-largest-meat-company-to-debut-new-vegan-meat-line-in-us
(Short article, no more at link.)
Who knew the vile Brazilian Batista brothers would be behind this product?
https://abrothersmob.com/usa-tv-fulminates-batista-brothers-due-to-a-us-62-million-given-them-by-trump/
02.07.19 FOOD AND DRUGS FOOD AND FARMING
JBS: The Brazilian butchers who took over the world
If you eat meat, you probably buy products made by one Brazilian company. A company with such power it can openly admit to having bribed more than 1,000 politicians and continue to grow despite scandal after scandal. And youve probably never heard of it.
Meat is now the new commodity, controlled by just a handful of gigantic firms which together wield unprecedented control over global food production. The Bureau has been investigating the biggest of all: JBS, a Brazilian company which slaughters a staggering 13 million animals every single day and has annual revenue of $50bn.
When it comes to scandals, you can take your pick during its rapid rise to become the worlds biggest meatpacker, JBS and its network of subsidiaries have been linked to allegations of high-level corruption, modern-day slave labour practices, illegal deforestation, animal welfare violations and major hygiene breaches. In 2017 its holding company agreed to pay one of the biggest fines in global corporate history $3.2bn after admitting bribing hundreds of politicians. Yet the companys products remain on supermarket shelves across the world, and its global dominance only looks set to grow further.
In a two-part investigation published today, the Bureau revealed in partnership with the Guardian and Repórter Brasil that Amazon deforestation and dirty meat are very much part of how JBS has done business. Today we lift the lid on the company itself, and ask: what is the true cost of cheap meat?
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https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-07-02/jbs-brazilian-butchers-took-over-the-world
Unbelievable!
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WORLD'S LARGEST MEAT COMPANY TO DEBUT NEW VEGAN MEAT LINE IN US (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Mar 2020
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Brazil's fabulous Batista boys: The meat-mongers whose testimony could end Michel Temer's presidency
Judi Lynn
Mar 2020
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Judi Lynn
(160,645 posts)1. Brazil's fabulous Batista boys: The meat-mongers whose testimony could end Michel Temer's presidency
The Americas
May 25th 2017 edition
May 25th 2017
BOA VISTA
JOSÉ BATISTA SOBRINHO helped build Brasília. In 1957 his meat business supplied canteens that fed workers constructing Brazils modernist capital. Now his two youngest sons, Wesley and Joesley, are bringing the place down. As the bosses of the company their father founded, renamed JBS in his honour, they are at the centre of a scandal that may force a president out of office for the second time in a year (see article).
JBS is the worlds biggest beef exporter. Its revenues rose from 3.9bn reais ($1.8bn) in 2006 to 170bn reais last year, helped by Chinas appetite and Brazils enthusiasm for national champions. From 2007 to 2015 the development bank, BNDES, injected into Batista enterprises more than 8bn reais in capital and loans. Most of it was to help JBS buy rivals, including American brands like Swift and Pilgrims Pride. J&F, the familys holding company, has diversified into non-meat businesses, including Havaianas, which makes fashionable flip-flops.
As JBS was buying up rivals, the Batistas were buying politicians. The companys declared campaign donations swelled from 20m reais in 2006 to nearly 400m reais in the election in 2014; in that contest it gave more than any other firm. In the past decade the brothers have bankrolled 1,829 candidates; their largesse helped elect a third of the current congress. Little of it was legal. The Batistas have confessed that almost all the declared cash, plus millions paid under the table, was bribes to politicians specifically to further J&Fs interests.
In the past year the Batistas firms have faced five criminal investigations. The latest probes J&Fs dealings with BNDES, which provided finance at the behest of paid-off politicians.
To save their enterprises, and themselves, the brothers approached prosecutors investigating the metastasising bribery scandal centred on Petrobras, the state-run energy company. The bargain they struck was their niftiest deal yet. In exchange for providing evidence of wrongdoing by major political figuresincluding, possibly, President Michel Temerthey secured near-total immunity. Unlike Marcelo Odebrecht, boss of a construction firm at the heart of the Petrobras allegations, neither Batista will spend a day in jail or under house arrest. Free to leave Brazil, Joesley has already moved to his posh New York flat with his wife, a former television presenter, and their child. He and Wesley each agreed to pay fines of 110m reais, which leaves them both billionaires.
More:
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2017/05/25/brazils-fabulous-batista-boys
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)2. That's interesting since here in the U.S. we already have a well-established meat-substitute
supply chain with many different brand names.
Judi Lynn
(160,645 posts)3. True! They really have been around quite a while, too... n/t