Tesco in Portsmouth targeted by Greenpeace with poster decrying 'forest destruction' caused by 'industrial meat' sales

A poster has appeared on the Portsmouth store’s window, calling for the shop to ‘stop selling industrial meat driving forest destruction’.

It comes as stores across the country have been targeted in the campaign.

The posters provide a link to a petition signed by more than 198,000 people, calling on the supermarket to stop buying from meat from JBS, a company Greenpeace claims is destroying large parts of the Amazon rainforest.

An organiser at the Portsmouth Greenpeace group said: ‘It’s part of a wider campaign to target Tesco.

‘Tesco is the largest importer of meat feed through soya, which causes deforestation.

‘I think it raises an issue that doesn’t get as much attention in the mainstream media as it should, particularly as the meat and dairy lobbies are quite strong.’

The campaign is also calling on Tesco to replace half the meat its sells with plant-based food by 2025.

In March, Greenpeace activists disabled doors at Barclays branches in Portsmouth to protest the bank’s funding of fossil fuel companies.

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