Soy production for feeding the (German) livestock industry is responsible for land grabbing, displacement and deadly conflicts in South America. This is confirmed in detail in the report “Violence against the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil”, with a focus on indigenous groups in Brazil.
Among those affected are the Guajajara, Guarani-Kaiowá, Munduruku, Kaingang, Ava-Guarani, Kanela Memortumre indigenous groups. This means that in addition to the deforestation of the rainforest and the Cerrados, the existential threat to indigenous population groups in the Global South is also a direct neo-colonial impact of the livestock industry.
Just a few weeks ago, Deutsche Umwelthilfe published a similar study, accusing meat companies such as Tönnies, Westfleisch and Rothkötter of concealing their responsibility for the destruction and displacement through non-transparent trade chains.
Summary of the report (in German): https://cimi.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/kurzfassung-gewalt-indigenen-volker-brasilien-2023-cimi.pdf
The entire report (in English): https://cimi.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/report-violence-against-indigenous-peoples-brazil-2023-cimi.pdf