John,

Big discovery: all of the bees in a study done at the University of Bristol died within 3 days after exposure to a novel Bayer pesticide that’s being heavily sprayed on crops.

Bayer is marketing it as a ‘bee safe’ alternative, but really it works like the bee-killing neonicotinoids the EU and Canada banned, for good reason.

There’s little independent research on the full effects of this novel pesticide on pollinators, and people for that matter, yet next year it could get approved again for use on a wide variety of crops in Europe – unless we stop it.

If enough of us chip in now, we can get a step ahead of Bayer: commissioning research to combat pseudoscience, getting to lawmakers and regulators earlier and more often, and preparing for a fight in court if that’s what it takes.

This is bigger than one pesticide. We need your help to ban a whole new class of dangerous pesticides before Bayer makes and markets more like it. Can you chip in to help?

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Scientists are warning that this novel pesticide called flupyradifurone and others like it are bad news for bees and people – but right now these dangerous chemicals are drenching our crop fields under the guise of a ‘safe alternative’.

And Bayer is working hard to keep marketing that way.

Researchers have discovered that flupyradifurone works similarly to the notorious banned group of neonicotinoids (imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam), which have been proven to cause mass bee deaths.

Really products containing flupyradifurone should be banned, but there are no clear laws in place to protect bees and people from this novel category of pesticides – and until there is, Bayer is going to keep exploiting this loophole. 

Our Ekō community fought hard and helped win a historic ban on bee-killing pesticides like this back in 2018. Now we need your help to do it again. Can you chip in?

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