Follow the Product- yellow by Paulette Antonicelli

Instructions

pantonicelli — 2025-06-09 13:38:24 UTC

Choose a product to follow through its supply chain
Add pins for each location involved in the product’s journey:
- Where raw materials are sourced
- Where manufacturing/processing occurs
- Distribution centers
- Final retail/consumer locations
in 1 group post answer the 4 questions and choose 4 images to best reflect the issues. Link all locations to together if your product involves multiple locations

Mato Grosso, Brazil

2025-06-10 15:05:55 UTC

In the Pantanal Region of Mato Grosso, Brazil, cattle are commonly raised, fed, ranched, and bred. To raise cattle, ranchers in Mato Grosso raise cattle through extensive management and grooming. Ranchers often use native vegetation for grazing, and fire-based methods of clearing lands for extra pastures. This extensive and resource heavy process for raising cattle does have a existential threat to our environment. Food Print in 2018 found that beef cattle consume double the amount of water than lamb, and triple the amount as chicken. BSN in 2023 explains that nearly 40% of world grain is used to feed livestock instead of humans. More land is needed for agriculture, as well as fields being used as pastures for animals. Beef, especially, uses huge areas of land, but only produces less than 90 kilograms of protein per hectare. This intensive resource use has two important impacts on our environment. The first is warming. Cattle raising in the Brazilian Amazon is a major driver of deforestation. In fact, deforestation of the Amazon is reaching a critical die back tipping point This is a problem because the Amazon contains 30% of the world’s rainforest. It also holds 20% of the world’s freshwater resources. As such, it’s often regarded as the “planet’s lungs. The second is biodiversity. Global Witness from this year in April found a single supplier to the world’s largest meat processor, JBS, has destroyed over 1,200ha of jaguar habitat in a protected area in Brazil over 10 years. Analysis by Global Witness found over 27 million ha of jaguar habitat – an area larger than the UK – had been converted to agricultural land in the states of Mato Grosso and Pará as of 2023.

Ghana

sboykoff — 2025-06-12 12:47:49 UTC

Ivory Coast

sboykoff — 2025-06-12 12:48:06 UTC

Zhejiang, China

2025-06-12 12:49:07 UTC

Plastic water bottles

Isabela, Syra, Shuho, Charlie

Democratic Republic of the Congo

2025-06-12 12:49:21 UTC

Cobalt mining

Chile

2025-06-12 12:49:30 UTC

Europe

2025-06-12 13:12:54 UTC

New Zealand

2025-06-12 13:13:06 UTC

USA

2025-06-12 13:13:32 UTC

Mato Grosso, Brazil - Beef Burgers - Zachary, Samrajya, Eugene, Kenny, Joseph

2025-06-12 13:31:43 UTC

Ghana

sboykoff — 2025-06-12 17:56:38 UTC