Dear John,
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Protect bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. Join the Valentine’s Week of Action to tell Home Depot and Lowe’s to reject Roundup®.
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Valentine’s day is right around the corner and pollinators urgently need your help! RSVP Now to protect pollinators.
The active ingredient in Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup® -- glyphosate -- is wiping out milkweed, the only food source for monarch caterpillars. This has contributed to monarchs declining by 90% in the past 20 years alone. Glyphosate has also been linked to bee declines. Monarchs and other essential pollinators could vanish within our lifetimes.
Lowe’s and Home Depot can play a huge role in ending the use of this toxic pesticide in our backyards and across the country, but so far neither has committed to reject Roundup®.
It’s time to turn up the pressure. John, will you join other activists coast to coast and demand that Home Depot and Lowe’s show their love for bees and butterflies by getting Roundup® out of their stores?
What: Week of Action to protect pollinators from Roundup®. There will be options to take action at a Lowe’s or Home Depot store or to participate from home, on social media, or even offline. We’ll send you a toolkit with all the details after you sign up.
When: Starting February 8th through Valentine’s day.
Where: From anywhere in the U.S.!
Sign up for a Valentine’s Week of Action to protect pollinators!
My heart sinks knowing that the numbers for this past season’s butterfly count in California, once in the millions, now barely reached 2,000. At the same time, the use of Roundup® has increased dramatically. But after receiving over fifty thousand petition signatures from people like you demanding they remove Roundup® from store shelves, Lowe’s and Home Depot have yet to act.
The EPA found that glyphosate can injure or kill 93% of U.S. endangered species! And researchers have found that glyphosate can impede the growth of bee larvae and impact bees’ ability to navigate and find food.
And glyphosate harms people, too -- it’s a probable human carcinogen. It’s also associated with kidney disease, fatty liver disease, shortened pregnancy, decreased sperm function, endocrine disruption, and disruption of the gut microbiome.
If you’re concerned about the wellbeing of people, pollinators, and the planet, then join the Week of Action and help push Lowe’s and Home Depot to do something about this crisis!
Pledge to take action the week of Valentine’s Day to show people and pollinators love.
We need 20,000 Friends of the Earth members to pledge to bump up the pressure on Lowe’s and Home Depot this February. Will you join us by telling them to show pollinators love by rejecting Roundup®?
Lowe’s and Home Depot could be pollinator champions by removing products containing glyphosate from their physical stores and online -- following the example of their competitor, Costco. This would send a powerful message to glyphosate’s manufacturer, Bayer-Monsanto, that it must phase out this harmful chemical.
And instead of replacing Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup® with other toxic products, garden retailers can increase offerings of organic and other safer alternatives.
Friends of the Earth members like you played a key role in convincing Home Depot and Lowe’s to protect pollinators by committing to stop selling garden plants grown with bee-killing neonic pesticides. Now, you can push them to take another vital step in pollinator protection! RSVP to our Week of Action and help show pollinators -- and all of us -- love!
Join the swarm and save our pollinators: Tell Home Depot and Lowe’s it is time to step up!
Standing with you,
Paolo Mutia,
Food and agriculture campaign associate,
Friends of the Earth
