John,
Thanks to bees, the world gets to eat.
But bees are in the midst of an ongoing crisis, and neonicotinoid pesticides are turbocharging their decline.1
No bees, no food.
We're working to protect the bees and our entire food system by taking action against neonicotinoid pesticides and neonic-coated seeds. We need your support.
Will you help give our bee-saving work the funding it needs by donating to our End of Year Drive today?
Farms across America grow an awful lot of corn, soybeans and cotton.2 Up to 80% of these seeds are pre-coated with harmful neonic pesticides before they're planted.3
But neonics are linked to alarming drops in pollinator populations. Three out of every four flowering plants -- plus a solid third of the crops that feed us -- can't produce food unless a pollinator does the pollinating.4
We need more bees and fewer pesticides.
And yet a single neonic-coated seed contains enough toxins to kill 80,000 bees.5 Even worse, the neonic coating doesn't stay on the seed. Some of it ends up in the soil, the groundwater and in the plant itself.
We have a goal to raise $100,000 by midnight on Dec 31. Will you donate today?
When it comes to restricting harmful neonics, we've already seen some progress. One in four Americans lives in a place with restrictions on neonicotinoids, and we're building on that momentum by:
- urging major retailers to remove neonics from store shelves,
- working to phase out neonic-coated seeds, and
- increasing awareness of the importance of planting pollinator-friendly vegetation along roadsides and on state lands.
Thank you,
Faye Park
President
1. Steve Blackledge, "Three ways neonic pesticides are harming bees," Environment America, April 19, 2024.
2. "Agricultural Production and Prices," U.S. Department of Agriculture, January 8, 2025.
3. Steve Blackledge, "How just a single seed can kill 80,000 bees," Environment America, June 30, 2025.
4. Margaret Lawrence, "USDA: Protecting pollinators critical to food production," HortiDaily, last accessed December 9, 2025..
5. Steve Blackledge, "How just a single seed can kill 80,000 bees," Environment America, June 30, 2025.
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