#BoycottBrazilianFood

Uruguay has used pesticides so much that a large region is so heavily impacted that they had to reach out to others to find ways to 'fix' the pollution problem. 2017: "According to the latest report, this situation has not changed substantially; the TP and TN values at a measurement station located at the confluence of the Santa Lucia and San Jose rivers were 310 and 1280 µg P L−1, respectively.8 There are conflicting opinions about the main sources of this pollution; although some stakeholders primarily hold the point sources of cities and industries responsible for this situation, others blame the agriculture-related sources of contamination." Uruguay also has GMO products. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1178622117715446 "2018, Uruguay and 12 other nations, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil and the US, issued a joint statement to the World Trade Organization supporting relaxed regulations for gene editing, stating that governments should “avoid arbitrary and unjustifiable distinctions” between crops developed through gene editing and crops developed through conventional breeding" https://crispr-gene-editing-regs-tracker.geneticliteracyproject.org/uruguay-crops-food/ While Bolsonaro is a terrible representative, we must recognize that pesticides and GMO crops are a critical issue in many countries.

We need to be brave like the @Johannes and face deniers with all audacity

Thankyou WDHT for this platform,am humbled by that power of warning!

Bolsonaro is a disgrace to his people. With this, and the recent announcement of the removal of more trees to build an F1 track, I think you see where his eyes are fixed. I would like to use the old adage of “He can’t see the forest for the trees” but in Brazil that doesn’t apply! He seems intent on single handed lay destroying the Earths ability to breathe!!

Boycotting regimes that are acting as climate criminals is a powerful tool against economic systems that are contributing to environmental destruction and Climate Change. We must be sure to target the source of the problem in each instance. The biggest issue in Brazil is deforestation for cattle feed mainly soya plantations and threats to indigenous tribes that are important custodians of the natural world which they have respected for millennia. We must therefore boycott the meat industry, and those Western companies and trade agreements that encourage Brazil to continue on this destructive path towards the biosphere upon which we all depend.

there should be Trade Sanctions

Many thinks is impossible for individuals to boycott, but there is many consumer products that you can boycott for an example. Oil seeds, meat and sugar. This combined is responsible for over 20% of Brazil’s BNP. If we as individuals starts to boycott these products, we can make a change.

Maybe this boycott could affect the popolation more than politic

Such is the problem with Nigeria farm produce. All sorts of preservatives are employed to kill the weevils but ignorantly killing humans. Very urgent action is needed across the world on this very matter of chemicalized foods. From crops to animals the stories are the same

we need a list of all brazilian & bolivian goods, services, & companies so that we may boycott them (bolivia is doing the same thing to their forests).

I am more concerned about the rate of destruction of the forest due to Bolsonaro's government than pesticides (although this is concerning as well). However this is the only campaign that calls for a boycott for Brazilian products, which I think is the only way to get them to do something about either issue - so count me in :). However do you think we can put more emphasis on the rate of destruction itself? I feel the description is very pesticide-centric.

Brazilian embassy replies to boycott against Jair Bolsonaro. Read about it here: https://medium.com/wedonthavetime/the-brazilian-embassy-replies-to-boycott-against-jair-bolsonaro-e4e482201e28

Glad to hear the Brazilian Embassy replies but sad to read what they say... Time for Mr Bolsonaro to start protecting his people and the Amazonas

Dear Mr. Cullberg, The Brazilian Embassy in Stockholm has taken note through reports in the press that your company announced a boycott to Brazilian products, which obviously surprised the Brazilian Government as well as many Brazilian exporters. With all respect to your convictions and to your privilege to decide what best suits your business, we wish to convey some important facts and information that may interest you as a supplier of fresh farming products, and that may be taken into account for future decisions. In sending you this letter, we do not know exactly if you import organic goods from Brazil or otherwise. In any case, the Embassy wishes to inform you that Brazil, despite being an agricultural powerhouse, is not the biggest user of pesticides. It is ranked 5th or 7th in the World, according to applicable parameters in pesticide studies worldwide, being such rankings based on either total volume, per surface (hectare) or per capita In what regards pesticides, notwithstanding being, as a country, the second greatest producer of food in the World (excluding the EU as a whole) Brazil has a compatible record if compared to the rest of agricultural countries and stands below the top users and consumer countries. There are statistics that you may find on the Internet, such as the official records of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) which can be accessed through the following link http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/EP/visualize Or you could also find Brazil's rankings in many other studies available online , as https://ourworldindata.org/fertilizer.and-pesticides#pesticide- application-rates, for example. It is worrisome that, though many other countries have higher use of pesticides, only Brazil has been singled out in the press and media. In that regard, as you know, news in general are in many cases based on opinions tainted with political or other agendas, and we believe that such sources of information to take decisions on are not an unbiased substitute for studies and technical data at regard Taking solely general opinions into account to support conclusions may give way to unfair decisions since they do not reflect all available and reliable data and real situations. On that note, we wish you could take into account also, in what regards the number of pesticides that were authorized recently in Brazil, that this fact does not necessarily mean that all of the products will be used in full scale on the short or long run. It will be the market and the efficiency of the pesticide products in controlling harmful pests and insects that will determine if they will be used in large scale. Therefore, authorization does not mean actual use, and again, we wish to stress that there are many other countries that use bigger volume than Brazil, even if there are fewer specific authorized pesticides Therefore, there is no direct correlation between authorizations and total volume, as statistics have proven in the above-mentioned studies In this context, another fact to keep in mind about the need of use of pesticides in Brazil is its tropical environment, where pests, insects, bacteria and fungi exist in a greater variety and with much greater rate and scale of proliferation than in European or other milder climates. In tropical countries, clearly, pesticides have to be used in proportion to the dimension of the challenges of local biological environment so as to counter the elements that jeopardize agriculture and farm production. Even though it may be desired, organic and chemical-free production is a much greater task and challenge in some climates than in others, but yet pesticides have to be used nevertheless in large scale production. As you are aware, also, tropical agriculture can yield more than one harvest per year, which may double the absolute amount of yearly applied pesticides. It is worth noting that, in some cases, Brazilian agriculture is capable of producing up to three annual crops. So, while a farm in a milder climate uses specific products once during the year, a farm in Brazil has to incur in greater investments in products such as fertilizers and pesticides for each harvest Even though these elements mentioned above could have been a reason for consuming more pesticide, Brazil is still far away from being the greatest user worldwide. Dear Mr Cullberg The Brazilian Embassy is totally available for any further information or clarification on this or any other matter. Please find enclosed to this letter additional information from the Brazilian government as well as other scientific figures that may be of your interest. The Brazilian Embassy takes this opportunity to cordially greet you, hoping that you take into consideration the above information.

President Bolsonaro is also encouraging the destruction of the Amazon rainforest at an ever increasing rate. He has no regard for native tribes, who are themselves being forced out by cattle ranchers and illegal timber loggers. Please do not buy Brasilian meat, especially beef. The E.U. Should enforce a total ban in the importation of Brasilian timber. There is no guarantee that the timber is legal sourced. The Amazon needs to be respected, not treated as a commodity. Don’t buy Brasilian.

It's not just food that get destroyed by pesticides even the people, farmers etc gets sick. That is so nonchalant and bad and reminds of old times when workers didn't get payed enough and was treated carelessly.

Hello! Wow, this campaign reached 100 agrees real fast! We’ve sent it to the Brazilian government and to Jair himself, it will be interesting to see what they reply.

Sadly, in Mexico we have 111 pesticides appoved for use in agriculture . This horror must stop everywhere. Supporting this campaign 100%!

Awesome - Reaction created Action!! This is what will move Eart forward. Strong standpoint!

Thanks Johannes Cullberg! I cross-posted and shared this around the block and elsewhere ;) . I just learned that the M in his name "Jair M. Bolsonaro" is short for Messias. Nothing could be more wrong than that name on that person. However, let's not demonize nor underestimate him. He is hugely popular in Brazil, and somewhat polarized so even elsewhere. He is a very worthy recipient of your warning!

Very good initiative! Thank you. Just read the other day that the deforestation of the Brazilian rain forest has picked up since Jair became president...

Because of Bolsonaro, Swedish supermarket chain boycotts Brazilian products https://www.plataformamedia.com/en-uk/news/society/interior/because-of-bolsonaro-swedish-supermarket-chain-boycotts-brazilian-products-10982768.html