Dear John,
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Pollinators are under threat, and so is our food supply. Toxic pesticides are everywhere -- on our farms, in our backyards, and even in our most precious wild places. We are going all-in to get these poisons out of our food, our homes, our environment and our bodies. Help stop toxic pesticides with a donation to Friends of the Earth today.
There is no other way to put this: We are living through a mass extinction. Monarch Butterflies. Bumblebees. Moths. Many pollinators that were once common throughout the country and our world are disappearing faster than we believed possible.
Already, 40% percent of all wild invertebrate pollinators are on the brink of extinction -- but if we don’t make changes soon, that number is certain to grow. The decline in pollinators, alongside a deliberate rollback of environmental protections aimed to benefit Big Ag and other Big Polluters, is setting us up for food security problems and ecosystem collapse on a scale we’ve never seen.
Take action to save pollinators and help avert their mass-extinction. Support Friends of the Earth with a $10 donation.
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A key driver of this destruction is hiding in plain sight: Pesticides like Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup® and its bee-killing neonicotinoids.
Roundup® is the most widely used pesticide in the world -- it’s not only a key culprit in the decline of monarch butterflies, it’s harmful to bees and has been linked to cancer in humans. From breakfast to dinner, most of us eat glyphosate-contaminated food several times a day. In addition to cancer, glyphosate has been linked to endocrine disruption, DNA damage, decreased sperm function, disruption of the gut microbiome and fatty liver disease.
Big Ag’s toxic pesticides are putting our health and our entire food system at risk.
That’s why Friends of the Earth is using every tool in our toolbox to get these poisons out of our food, homes, and environment -- and this month, we’re ramping up the pressure on the corporations who sell and distribute these products.
Help lead a just transition to an organic, sustainable food system free of toxic pesticides. Donate $10 to Friends of the Earth today.
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At Friends of the Earth, we are at the forefront of a well-coordinated, multi-directional approach to banning toxic pesticides for good. With your support, we’ve taken action, made calls, filed lawsuits, and secured game-changing victories that address root causes of this crisis, from legislation to corporate campaigning. We aren’t waiting for permission -- we are taking this fight directly to those who distribute these chemicals.
This month, Friends of the Earth, along with our allies, delivered 157,196 letters from people like you to Home Depot and Lowe’s, urging them to remove Roundup® and other toxic pesticides from store shelves and online sales, and to expand sales of organic and other safer alternatives. We are working to shift the market as part of a larger, coordinated campaign to stop the sale and distribution of this and other toxic pesticides.
John, we know that going against companies like Bayer-Monsanto and some of the richest, most powerful industries in the world may seem daunting. They spend millions of dollars on efforts to spread misinformation, lobby the government, and stack the deck to avoid accountability.
But we’re winning. Earlier this year, Friends of the Earth and allies successfully pushed state governments around the country to ban the bee-killing, brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos, and chemical giant Dow committed to stop selling this poison. That was a major victory -- and it was powered by members like you. Now, we need to keep the dominoes falling, and push the largest home improvement chains in the world, Home Depot and Lowe’s, to stop selling RoundUp®.
Together, we can protect the people and planet we love from toxic pesticides.
Support Friends of the Earth with a $10 donation. Together, we can hold corporations accountable and protect pollinators for the long haul.
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Thank you,
Lisa Archer,
Food and agriculture program director,
Friends of the Earth
