3 Notes
4 . when seafood in supermarkets: “MSC Certified ‘Fish to Eat,’” Marine
Stewardship Council, accessed April 4 , 0 8 , https://www.msc.org/cook-
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46. farmers enrolled in proprietary programs: “Land O’Lakes SUS
TAIN—What Are Buffer Support Tools,” Land O’Lakes, accessed April 4 ,
0 8 , https://www.landolakessustain.com/buffer-support-tools.
47. were never any assurances: Dan Charles, “Does ‘Sustainability’ Help
the Environment or Just Agriculture’s Public Image?” The Salt, August ,
0 7 , http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/ 0 7 / 08 // 4 0 9 /does-sustain
ability-help-the-environment-or-just-agricultures-public-image.
48. no differences were detected: Susan Selke et al., “Evaluation of Bio-
degradation-Promoting Additives for Plastics,” Environmental Science &
Technology 49 , no. 6 (February 0 ): 3769 – 77 , https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/ 0
. 0 /es 04 8 u.
49. world’s largest car manufacturer: Emily Peck, “Here’s the Joke of a
Sustainability Report That VW Put Out Last Year,” Huffpost, September
, 0 , https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/volkswagen-sustainability-re
port-from-last-year-is-a-jokeus 6040 fae 4 b 0 fde 8 b 0 d 7996.
0. repeated the same pledge verbatim: Benjamin Preston, “Volks-
wagen Scandal Tarnishes Hard-Won US Reputation as Green Company,” The
Guardian, September , 0 , https://www.theguardian.com/business/ 0 /
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. expansion was less than 1 percent: Holly Gibbs et al., “Brazil’s Soy
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. public relations triumph: Kelly Tyrrell, “Study Shows Brazil’s Soy
Moratorium Still Needed to Preserve Amazon,” News, University of Wis
consin–Madison, January , 0 , https://news.wisc.edu/study-shows-brazils
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3. a darker picture emerged: Daniel Nepstad et al., “Slowing Ama-
zon Deforestation through Public Policy and Interventions in Beef and Soy
Supply Chains,” Science 344 , no. 6 88 ( June 0 4 ): 8 – 3 , http://doi.org/ 0 . 6
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4. acreage planted was misleading: Sue Branford and Maurício Torres,
“Amazon Soy Moratorium: Defeating Deforestation or Greenwash Divers-
ion?” Mongabay, March 8 , 0 7 , https://news.mongabay.com/ 0 7 / 03 /amazon
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Lawrence and John Vidal, “Food Giants to Boycott Illegal Amazon Soya,” The
Guardian, July 4 , 006 , https://www.theguardian.com/world/ 006 /jul/ 4
/brazil.foodanddrink.