Dear John,
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Protect bees from dangerous pesticides: Donate to Friends of the Earth in the next 12 hours and your gift will be MATCHED, dollar-for-dollar!
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Bad news: Beekeepers just recorded the second-highest annual bee losses in history.
To save bees and ensure a sustainable food future, we need to raise $77,000 before our fiscal year ends at midnight tonight. Every dollar you give will be DOUBLED: Donate $27 or more to Friends of the Earth today.
We know toxic pesticides are a major driver of bee die-offs, so we’re using all the tools in our toolbox to ban these pesticides and protect bees.
One of our campaigns is pushing retailers to get these bee-toxic pesticides off their shelves. Thanks to your support, we moved more than 75% of the garden industry to stop producing “bee-friendly” garden plants produced with bee-killing pesticides! The next step: grocery stores.
After our testing exposed toxic, bee-killing pesticides in many of their foods, we’ve pushed Kroger, the largest traditional grocery chain in the country, to commit to stop selling food grown with these toxic pesticides. Just last week, Friends of the Earth members made so many calls to Kroger, we jammed the company’s phone lines during its annual shareholders’ meeting. We got Kroger’s attention -- but we need to keep up the pressure to push the largest conventional grocery chain, and its competitors, to step up and make concrete commitments to save our pollinators.
Will you chip in to meet our goal and save the bees, John? We have 12 hours to raise $77,000. If you donate before our fiscal year ends at 11:59 pm tonight, your contribution will be DOUBLED!
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For decades, Monsanto has bankrolled and “ghostwritten” studies that claimed its popular weed-killer glyphosate, aka Roundup®, is safe, while spending millions on secretive PR campaigns to discredit independent scientists sounding the alarm on this toxic pesticide. Trump’s corrupt EPA even relied on these flawed industry studies to determine this pesticide is “safe”.
But the science is clear that it’s anything but safe for people or our planet. Glyphosate is a key driver pushing another important pollinator to the brink of collapse: monarch butterflies. Along with bees, butterflies are a key pollinator essential to our food system and our global web of life.
Young caterpillars, which grow up to be monarchs, have only one food source: milkweed. Guess what glyphosate wipes out? Milkweed.
But the EPA continues to ignore clear science linking pesticides to devastating bee and butterfly losses, giving pesticide corporations a free pass to keep killing pollinators while raking in billions.
That’s why we can’t leave it up to the EPA. We have to build power ourselves to make change happen, and we don’t have time to lose. Today marks an important fundraising deadline: It’s the end of our fiscal year. How much money we raise in the next 12 hours will determine our resources and plans moving ahead.
Your gift right now could be the difference between a sustainable future and healthy food system... or the pesticide-driven mass extinction of bees, butterflies, and other critical pollinators.
Please chip in today and fight dangerous pesticides: Donate to Friends of the Earth before our fiscal year ends at 11:59 pm tonight and your gift will be MATCHED, dollar-for-dollar!
If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:
In addition to harming pollinators, Monsanto’s pesticide Roundup® is harmful for humans, too: It’s been linked to cancer.
In fact, Monsanto’s parent company, Bayer, just agreed to pay more than $10 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits claiming that Roundup® caused cancer. This marks one of the largest civil settlements in U.S. history.
But a condition of the settlement enables Monsanto to continue selling the pesticide without adding warning labels about its safety.
To protect public health, California has been trying to put a cancer warning on Roundup® labels, but just faced another setback. Last week, a federal judge -- referencing the EPA’s claim that it’s safe to use -- prohibited California from adding a warning label to Roundup® and other products containing glyphosate.
The disappointing court decision keeps people in the dark about the pesticide’s true dangers, and keeps it on the market without consequence. That’s why we are now pushing retailers like Home Depot and Lowe’s to follow their competitor Costco’s lead and pull this toxic pesticide from their shelves to protect people and pollinators.
Another way to save monarch butterflies would be giving them endangered species protections. But the Fish and Wildlife Service, which has the power to do so, is led by a former Monsanto executive and recently refused to list monarchs as an endangered species, despite plummeting numbers.
Everywhere we turn, we’re up against huge corporations making billions of dollars by destroying our planet, in bed with corrupt government agencies. With these odds, we’ve got to ramp up our campaigning fast to have any hope of saving pollinators before they’re driven to extinction.
Your partnership in the next 12 hours will be critical: Can you chip in before 11:59 pm tonight and help protect pollinators and our planet? Your gift will be doubled -- up to our goal of $77,000.
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Thank you,
Lisa Archer,
Food and agriculture program director,
Friends of the Earth
