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Bayer, Syngenta & BASF have spent millions lobbying the Brazilian Federal
Senate to approve a new law that will harm Brazilian people's health.

By coming together we can be just as powerful, and push lawmakers to put
health before profit and drop the ‘Poison Package Bill’.

[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 

   
John,

As the tide turns against pesticides in Europe, corporations like Bayer,
Syngenta and BASF are on the hunt for new markets for their poisons.

With Latin America in their sights, they have invested two million euros
lobbying Brazilian lawmakers, pressuring them to approve a new law that
would make it easier to put new pesticides on sale.

The “Poison Package” bill could receive final approval by the Brazilian
Federal Senate any day now, unless enough of us come together to show
people power is more than match for corporate lobbying.

[ [link removed] ]Call on Brazilian Senators to put people’s health before corporate
profit and drop the Poison Package Bill!

A whopping 1,682 new pesticides were allowed into the Brazilian market in
the last 3 years -- 45% of the pesticides available in the country!

So the last thing that the people of Brazil need is for corporations to be
able to register new pesticides more easily, while at the same time
defanging the two most important regulators on environment and health.

And yet that is exactly what the “Poison Package” Bill would do. Approved
on the quiet in the Agriculture Commission of the Brazilian Federal Senate
at the end of 2022, Bayer and co are hoping that the same will happen at
the Bill’s last hurdle, and the National Congress will rubber stamp it
into law.

But they didn’t consider how Ekō members across the world would come
together in support of Brazilian people’s right to be healthy and enjoy
food free from poison. Will you join us?

[ [link removed] ]Brazil Senators: drop the Poison Package Bill, and put the health of
the people, soil and water of Brazil first!

We don’t have the money of giant corporations, but we do have the people
power, and this could be everything we need to turn the tables.

The more signatures we take to the center of Brazil’s decision-making, the
harder it will be for the Senate to approve the Poison Package bill.

Ekō members have been working together for years to support farmers and
families poisoned by pesticides corporations. We’ve spoken directly to
Bayer’s shareholders and directors at their AGM, and helped beekeepers
fighting the pesticide industry in the courts.

[ [link removed] ]Will you sign so Bayer, Syngenta & BASF don’t get an easier ride to
poison Brazil with pesticides?



[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 



Thanks for all that you do,
Vanessa, Sondhya, Flora and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Brazil's lower house approves pesticide bill, sends it to Senate,
Reuters. 2nd September, 2022
[ [link removed] ]Brazil: “Poison package” draft bill on pesticides will undermine rights
protection say UN experts, Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights, UN. 22nd June, 2022
[ [link removed] ]'Toxic garbage will be sold here': Outcry as Brazil moves to loosen
pesticide laws, The Guardian. 26th June, 2018

 

 

Ekō is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.

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