{"id":1025656,"date":"2026-08-03T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025656"},"modified":"2026-08-03T07:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:06:14","slug":"amazon-sued-by-consumers-over-seafood-sustainability-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/03\/amazon-sued-by-consumers-over-seafood-sustainability-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon sued by consumers over seafood sustainability claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com was sued on Friday by consumers who accused the retailer of misrepresenting the environmental benefits of seafood sold on its platform, a practice known as greenwashing. <\/p>\n<p>In a proposed class action in Seattle federal court, consumers said labels containing phrases such as &#8220;dolphin safe,&#8221; &#8220;responsibly sourced,&#8221; &#8220;sustainable,&#8221; &#8220;wild caught&#8221; and &#8220;MSC Certified Sustainable Seafood&#8221; misled them into \u200cbelieving Amazon&#8217;s seafood \u2060sourcing \u2060causes minimal harm to oceans and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com was sued on Friday by consumers who accused the retailer of misrepresenting the environmental benefits of seafood sold on its platform, a practice known as greenwashing. In a proposed class action in Seattle federal court, consumers said labels containing phrases such as &#8220;dolphin safe,&#8221; &#8220;responsibly sourced,&#8221; &#8220;sustainable,&#8221; &#8220;wild caught&#8221; and &#8220;MSC Certified Sustainable Seafood&#8221; misled them into \u200cbelieving Amazon&#8217;s seafood \u2060sourcing \u2060causes minimal harm to oceans and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025683,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025656\/revisions\/1025683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}