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This Giving Tuesday, help save monarchs from Monsanto’s Roundup®: Donate $27 or more and your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar!
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There are only a few hours left to double your impact to save monarch butterflies! Donate $27 or more NOW and help stop Monsanto from wiping out the monarchs!
Monarch butterflies are in trouble. They’ve declined by 90% in the last 20 years. And a key culprit is the massive increase in the use of glyphosate -- a.k.a. Monsanto’s Roundup®.
The math is simple: More Roundup® = less milkweed = fewer monarchs.
And it’s not just monarchs that are suffering. Glyphosate is dangerous to humans as well. Studies show that glyphosate is so widely-sprayed on our food that many of us consume it with nearly every meal.
At Friends of the Earth, we’re working to get this toxic pesticide out of our food system and shift to organic agriculture -- but we need your help.
This Giving Tuesday, donate $27 or more and help stop Monsanto from wiping out the monarchs! Your impact will be doubled, and your donation matched up to $150,000.
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Over the last two decades, what used to be a flood of butterflies migrating to Mexico each year has dwindled to a trickle.
At the same time, the amount of Roundup® being used each year has increased dramatically. Use jumped from only 11 million pounds in 1987 to nearly 300 million pounds every year by 2016.
It’s no wonder our butterflies are in trouble. And the near-ubiquitous use of Roundup® is bad for us as well -- In addition to cancer, glyphosate has been linked to endocrine disruption, DNA damage, decreased sperm function, and a host of other alarming health concerns.
The evidence is clear: we must stop supporting a food system built on toxic pesticides like Roundup® and transition to a future of organic for all.
But instead, the Trump administration has given Monsanto and Big Ag the green light to pollute our environment, make us sick, and wipe out monarch butterflies. The EPA is still letting Big Ag douse our food in this toxic chemical -- and is now considering approving a brand new toxic pesticide -- tetraniliprole -- for mass distribution.
No matter who is president, we can’t let our government agencies get away with putting the pesticide industry’s profits ahead of our health and environment.
Stop Monsanto from poisoning our environment and communities with Roundup®: Donate $27 or more today!
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We’re going up against huge corporations and their powerful cronies in the government -- the challenges we face are daunting. But with Friends of the Earth members like you at our side, I know we can win this fight and save the monarchs from extinction.
We have a comprehensive plan to get toxic pesticides out of our food system and reverse this looming mass-extinction:
- We’ve conducted groundbreaking research and analysis on pesticides’ harm to people and the planet, and shone a light on the solutions, including organic agriculture.
- We’ve mobilized people like you to send more than 25,000 messages to Congress supporting a bill to ban glyphosate. And our campaigners are on Capitol Hill meeting with legislators one-on-one to keep the pressure on.
- We’re supporting multiple bills to ban pesticides. This includes the new Protecting America’s Children from Toxic Pesticides Act of 2020. It also includes a bill introduced by Representative Velazquez to ban neonicotinoids in wildlife refuges. This bill would reverse Trump’s egregious decision to use these pesticides in our protected wild places, and restore this critical monarch and bee habitat.
- We’re working at the state and local levels to protect pollinators from pesticides. Last year, New York and Vermont passed bills to ban pollinator-toxic pesticides like neonics and chlorpyrifos, and California announced a new plan to ban chlorpyrifos.
- We’re continuing work in five other states to pass bills to ban toxic pesticides, including glyphosate. Plus, we’re working with cities to pass policies to ban this and other toxic pesticides.
- We’re pushing retailers to eliminate pesticides, including glyphosate, from their supply chains. We’ve sent over 157,000 signatures telling Lowe’s and Home Depot to end their sales of glyphosate. We have already secured pollinator protection policies from six of the top US food retailers, including three of the largest, Kroger, Costco and Albertsons, along with Aldi and Rite Aid. Just before we released our Bee-Friendly Retailer Scorecard, Giant Eagle came out with a leading policy to eliminate neonics in its produce supply chain. But the commitments don’t go far enough to save bees and butterflies. So we’re going to keep pushing these and other leading supermarkets to do better on pesticides and increase their organic offerings.
These actions won’t only help monarchs. Bees and other insects are dying at alarming rates. Scientists are warning if we don’t stem insect decline, we could soon face the “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems” -- a mass extinction. We must rapidly reduce our use of pesticides if we are to save these crucial species.
You know that when we work together, we can move mountains. Together, you and I have already transformed the garden industry, including convincing Home Depot, Lowe’s, Costco, True Value, Ace Hardware and Walmart to eliminate bee-killing pesticides in garden plants.
Imagine what we can do for the monarchs over the coming months! But we’ve got to act fast, before these beautiful and iconic pollinators disappear forever.
Make a generous Giving Tuesday contribution today and help Friends of the Earth save the monarchs and our food system! Donate now and your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar -- up to $150,000!
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Thank you,
Kendra Klein, PhD,
Senior staff scientist,
Friends of the Earth
