*Take these with as many grains of salt as you'd like*


  1. Amazon

  2. Cashews
    1. Here's the HRW report mentioned in the previous link.
    2. This page also has some info about ethical sources of cashews toward the bottom.
  3. Almonds
    1. Here's some deeper research on the topic. Though almonds do require a great deal of water, they have very high nutritional and economic value. When compared to other crops, almonds do exceptionally well in both of these dimensions and actually come out quite well when considering nutritional and economic value per unit of water to produce. As a result, the story may be more nuanced and require more thought than conveyed in the above article.