Nicaragua to crack down on conflict beef
The Nicaraguan government has taken steps to ensure conflict beef does not end up on U.S. grocery store shelves, following reports that cattle ranchers are killing Indigenous people in the country’s eastern rainforest as they push to expand pasturelands.
After nearly a decade of lax enforcement, the government is enlisting the national police and local municipalities to stop cattle illegally raised on stolen lands or in protected biospheres from reaching the country’s slaughterhouses, according to internal government documents obtained by Reveal.
The government actions come in direct response to an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PBS NewsHour that connected a major Nicaraguan beef importer to some of the largest grocery retailers in the United States, including Walmart, Target and Safeway.
Dozens of Indigenous people in Nicaragua’s eastern Caribbean coast have been killed in recent years by cattle ranchers and other settlers who are encroaching on the country’s rainforest. That rainforest, the second largest in the Americas, is rapidly shrinking as trees are cut down to make way for pasturelands.
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