Dear John,
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Ramp up the pressure on Kroger to save the bees: Donate now and help put up a billboard near its headquarters!
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Pollinators are at risk of extinction. From monarch butterflies to bees, these vital creatures are dying out at unprecedented rates -- threatening our ecosystems and our food system alike. We have a plan to get stores to stop selling the pesticides that kill them, but we need your help. Help ban toxic pesticides and save pollinators -- Rush a $10 donation to Friends of the Earth.
There’s no other way to put it: pollinators are facing mass extinction. Toxic pesticides -- like Bayer-Monsanto’s neonicotinoids -- are a major driver of bee die-offs. So, naturally, one of our key priorities is to get toxic pesticides out of our food system -- starting with grocery retailers like Kroger.
Kroger, the largest traditional grocery chain in the country, could commit to stop selling food grown with toxic pesticides. But the company has been dragging its feet for years. So now, we’re working to put up a billboard right next to Kroger’s headquarters, highlighting the company’s role in pollinator die-offs and demanding it take the action that science -- and bees -- require. But we need your help.
Help put up a billboard to tell Kroger to stop growing food with bee-killing pesticides -- Support Friends of the Earth with a $10 gift.
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40% -- that’s the percentage of wild invertebrate pollinators that are already on the brink of extinction. Butterflies, bees, moths -- many pollinators that were once abundant are now disappearing. If we don’t take urgent action now, it will only get worse.
We are already seeing the impact of pollinator declines on food production. Crops like blueberries, cherries and apples all suffer from the lack of bees.
And we’re at risk too. Just this year, our testing uncovered a frightening truth: These dangerous pesticides are so prevalent in our food products, that many of us eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Pesticides like glyphosate -- the key ingredient in Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup, has been linked with cancer, endocrine disruption, DNA damage, decreased sperm function, disruption of the gut microbiome and fatty liver disease.
By forcing retailers to stop selling food grown with these products, we can save bees and other pollinators, preserve our food system and safeguard our own health, all at the same time.
Take action to ban toxic pesticides and safeguard people and planet. Donate $10 to Friends of the Earth today.
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With your help, John, we are turning the tide in the fight to save pollinators. We’ve won statewide pesticide bans. We’ve built support for game-changing national legislation like The Saving America’s Pollinators Act and the Ban Toxic Pesticides Act. We’ve forced most of the garden industry to stop selling plants grown with bee-toxic neonicotinoids.
Now it’s Kroger’s turn.
As the largest traditional grocery chain in the U.S., Kroger has the power to make our food system healthier and safer for pollinators -- and all of us.
Kroger has responded to grassroots pressure. Thanks to you, Kroger created a pollinator health policy encouraging farmers to move away from using toxic pesticides towards alternative pest management.
But its policy doesn’t go far enough. It doesn’t include any clear commitments or timelines to stop using pollinator-toxic pesticides. And without pollinators, Kroger’s shelves would be pretty empty.
The company cares about its public image. That’s why we’re working to put up a billboard right outside the company headquarters -- where the CEO will have to drive by it every single day. At the same time, the billboard can help drive media attention to the fact that Kroger sells food that was grown with pesticides that kill pollinators, further pushing it to act fast.
It costs $5,000 to put up a billboard near Kroger’s Cincinnati headquarters. And we’re running out of time -- for maximum impact, the billboard has to go up in early January. So please, John, rush your $10 donation to Friends of the Earth right now and help push Kroger to save the bees.
Help call out Kroger in the media by putting up a giant billboard near its headquarters. Your $10 donation right now could help save bees from toxic pesticides.
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Thank you,
Kendra Klein, PhD,
Senior staff scientist,
Friends of the Earth
