Foods and other Brazilian meatpacking companies reportedly maintained a scheme throughout the year 2021 to purchase cattle from farms owned by Chaules Volban Pozzebon, the leader of a criminal organization involved in land invasion and extortion, known as the 'largest deforester in Brazil'. Minerva is accused of having bought at least 672 animals from farms implicated in environmental crimes.

In a statement, Minerva Foods stated that they conducted