John,

Every time that Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, fulfills another order of bee-killing pesticides, more bees are put at risk.

This is bad news for us, too, because we rely on bees to pollinate more than 70 of the 100 crops that provide 90% of the world's food.1

Amazon needs to do better by us and by the planet and stop selling toxic neonics. Send a message to Amazon today.

Neonics are highly toxic to our pollinators, often making bees suffer if the toxins don't kill them outright. The chemicals cause permanent damage to bees' brains, weaken their immune systems, and harm their ability to navigate to their hives.2

If we lose the bees, many of the ecosystems we depend on for our food would collapse.

We know there are safer alternatives to neonics, and with people like you taking action to get neonics out of the environment, we've already made a big difference in phasing out neonics.

Lowe's, Ace Hardware and Walmart have made commitments to at least limit the sale of neonics.

But neonics are still the most widely used insecticides in the world, with 4 million pounds of these bee-killing chemicals used across the country every year.3 And they're incredibly pervasive -- neonics can end up in soil and stay actively toxic for years, traveling far and wide to other plants through rainwater and irrigation systems.4

As one of the biggest companies in the world, Amazon needs to take leadership on this issue and stop selling neonics. Add your name to our petition asking Amazon to take neonics off its shelves.

Thank you,

Faye Park
President

1. Emily Rogers, "How the widespread use of a bee-killing pesticide is threatening our food supply," U.S. PIRG, December 12, 2022.
2. Thomas James Wood, David Goulson, "The environmental risks of neonicotinoid pesticides: a review of evidence post 2013," Environmental Science and Pollution Research International, June 7, 2017.
3. "Effects of Neonicotinoid Pesticide Exposure on Human Health: A Systematic Review," National Library of Medicine, July 6, 2016.
4. Thomas James Wood, David Goulson, "The environmental risks of neonicotinoid pesticides: a review of evidence post 2013," Environmental Science and Pollution Research International, June 7, 2017.

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