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Dangerous pesticides have driven bees, butterflies, and other important
pollinators to the brink of collapse.
Friends of the Earth is fighting for bees and a sustainable food future, but
we’re up against huge pesticide 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. But Friends of the Earth
won’t meet our end-of-fiscal-year fundraising goals unless you donate now.
We urgently need your support: 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!
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Protect bees from dangerous pesticides: Donate to Friends of the Earth in the
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[[link removed]]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.
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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, Friend? We have just a few hours left 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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[[link removed]]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 few 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!
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[[link removed]]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 few 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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[[link removed]]Thank you,
Lisa Archer,
Food and agriculture program director,
Friends of the Earth
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