Dear John,
Imagine going to the grocery store and finding the shelves empty of some of your
favorite foods.
No almonds to snack on. Almost no blueberries or strawberries in the produce
section. Far fewer veggies to feed your family.
This could be our future if we don’t take action to save bees. These crucial
pollinators are responsible for one in three bites of food that we eat -- but
they’re dying at alarming rates. And a key culprit is the use of toxic
pesticides like neonicotinoids and Monsanto’s Roundup®.
We’re not going to let bees disappear on our watch. But we need your help to
save them. If 75% of the people reading this email donate before midnight, we’ll
meet our fundraising goal. Can you pitch in, John?
Help save bees from toxic pesticides: Donate $10 or more right now!
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Bees and other pollinators are vital to our whole food system. Without them,
we’d have a hard time feeding our families some of our healthiest and favorite
foods.
But toxic pesticides produced by companies like Bayer the Bee-Slayer, Monsanto,
and Dow are linked to bee declines. Last winter beekeepers experienced some of
the worst die-offs on record. They reported an average loss of nearly half of
their hives.
Supermarkets have the power to turn this around. They could refuse to sell food
grown with pesticides linked to bee declines. If they don’t want to see their
produce sections become empty, they must act fast.
Already, some major food retailers have taken steps in the right direction.
Aldi, Rite-Aid, Costco, and others have policies to help protect pollinators.
But these policies aren’t strong enough -- and the biggest supermarkets in the
U.S., like Kroger, are still dragging their feet.
Friends of the Earth members like you helped transform the garden industry away
from bee-killing pesticides. Now, we need your help to push supermarkets to
follow suit.
Stop Bayer the Bee-Slayer from poisoning our food system: Donate $10 or more
today and help push supermarkets to save bees!
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We know that pesticide companies like Bayer-Monsanto are doing everything
possible to keep their products on the market. They’re aiming to discredit the
latest science and stop the federal government from taking action.
That’s why it’s so important to push supermarkets to act. But at the same time,
we need to ramp up the pressure on the EPA and demand that it follow the science
and not the direction of the pesticide industry.
So at Friends of the Earth, we’re working to shine a light on this crisis in the
media. We’re raising awareness with the public about the impact of toxic
pesticides on our food system. And we’re organizing across the country to make
sure our voices are louder than Bayer-Monsanto, Dow and Syngenta’s lobbyists.
But we can’t do this without you.
Donate to Friends of the Earth and protect bees from bee-killing pesticides.
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Standing with you,
Lisa Archer,
Food and agriculture program director,
Friends of the Earth
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