on Monday sent a letter to the Lear Corporation, the world’s biggest supplier of leather car seats, demanding that the company account for its relationships with firms suspected of engaging in Amazonand forced labor. In the letter, Wyden expressed skepticism of Lear’s claims that it meticulously monitors the practices of the
from the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency that traced transport permits to show thousands of cattle were illegally ranched in one of the most protected areas of the Amazon.Weak oversight in Brazil, Wyden wrote, has resulted in the proliferation of slave labor in deforested areas, leading the U.S.
“The company is in no way turning a blind eye to illegal deforestation in the Amazon,” JBS said in a statement, pointing to its policies to stop deforestation and forced labor.