JBS S.A.

Who owns it

No filing-sourced ownership yet. That means we haven’t found a filing — not that the company has no owners.

What’s documented

• 2025-07-21regulatoryActionAn Animal Outlook investigation found Wild Fork Foods, a JBS subsidiary, displaying and selling foie gras at all 11 of its Southern California locations on July 21, 2025, in apparent violation of California's statewide ban on foie gras sales. Wild Fork removed the product from California stores by July 29, 2025 and from all U.S. and Canada locations by August 5, 2025.source →
• 2025-04-15regulatoryActionA 2025 Animal Welfare Institute report analyzing federal humane-handling enforcement records identified JBS-owned plants as among the worst-rated US slaughter facilities for repeated humane-handling regulatory citations. The report compiled non-compliance records from USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service.source →
• 2025-04-10legalProceedingJBS USA was a co-defendant alongside Tyson Foods, Smithfield, and other major U.S. pork producers in the consolidated pork-price-fixing class action that produced an $85 million Tyson settlement in 2025. JBS previously reached separate settlements in the same multidistrict litigation.source →
• 2025-03-15otherAnimal Welfare Institute report cited seven JBS-owned slaughter plants among the 10 worst large livestock slaughter facilities in the U.S., totaling 132 USDA-cited incidents (including 18 "egregious" violations such as failing to stun animals before shackling and hanging them for dismemberment).source →
• 2025-01-31regulatoryActionThe Humane Society of the United States and allied groups (Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Food Safety, Compassion in World Farming, and others) filed a supplemental SEC petition on January 31, 2025 alleging JBS made misleading animal-welfare and climate claims to investors in its sustainability disclosures, expanding on an initial June 2024 filing.source →
• 2025-01-31legalProceedingHumane World for Animals and seven allied groups filed a supplemental SEC petition expanding a 2024 complaint alleging JBS and Pilgrim's Pride mislead investors with false animal welfare and "net zero" claims in sustainability disclosures.source →
• 2025-01-15laborRelationsJBS paid $4 million in fines in January 2025 after the U.S. Department of Labor uncovered child labor violations at multiple JBS meat processing facilities. Investigators found minors as young as 13 working in hazardous slaughterhouse conditions at locations in Grand Island, Nebraska; Greeley, Colorado; Worthington, Minnesota; and Marshall, Minnesota.source →

What we’ve classified so far

• monopoly abuse1
• worker exploitation1

5 further documented actions have not been classified yet. These counts show what we have got to, not a total.