VOLUNTEERS from Greenpeace gathered at a city centre supermarket to hold a demonstration.

The organisation urged Tesco at its St Enoch square location to drop climate-criminal meat producers from its supply chain.

Greenpeace Glasgow activists created a red line with placards, to symbolise the line that the supermarket is crossing by continuing to do business with meat supplier JBS.

They held up placards with photos of the Amazon rainforest being destroyed due to fires, and signs reading ‘Tesco meat fuels Amazon destruction’, ‘Tesco breaks its climate promises’ and ‘Tesco buys meat from climate criminals’.

More than 263,000 signatures were collected to call on Tesco to drop certain companies from its supply chain, and replace at least half of the meat it sells with affordable plant-based alternatives by 2025. 

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Holly Young, a volunteer said: "Tesco is buying meat from one of the world’s worst climate criminals which makes its claims to be serious about tackling the climate crisis seem very hypocritical.

"I joined other local people outside Tesco in St Enoch Square to show the supermarket that it is crossing a line by continuing to source industrial meat from rainforest destroyer JBS.

"Tesco tried to greenwash its way out of its deforestation problem at the recent climate talks in Glasgow. But Tesco must think its customers are fools if it believes it can say it is acting on deforestation and yet it continues to fund one of the worst forest destroyers in the Amazon. 

"Greenpeace Glasgow will keep letting shoppers know that Tesco meat fuels deforestation until it takes proper action to remove deforestation from its supply chain and drops JBS.

"The Amazon plays a critical role for the world’s climate - because it stores so much carbon. If we lose the Amazon, we lose the fight on climate change."

The demonstration was one of 50 across the UK, all for the same cause.

Tesco has been approached for comment.