Supply Chain Risks and Vulnerabilities – From Slavery to Genocide
Fonte: Unsplash.com It took the emergence of Covid-19 to show the world the risks and vulnerabilities of large supply chains that, in the name of efficiency and low costs for consumers, concealed the great evils and risks behind their activities, which are now evident from modern slavery to genocide. Therefore, the discourse of efficiency and low cost, after about 40 years, is transformed into a catastrophe with the Covid-19, given the suffering and deaths of workers. The national and international press showed the risks and vulnerabilities of companies, such as JBS and Cargill in both Brazil and Canada, in the case of Covid-19. The lack of transparency in supply chains is starting to be recognized around the world. In previous governments, Brazil was one of the countries that supported large supply chains with funding from public funds, through BNDES, benefiting large slaughterhouses and the company JBS, today the largest meat distributor in the world, although criticized for its de...