Shahriar, the bees and the butterflies need your help Posta in arrivo x Lisa Archer, Friends of the Earth [email protected] tramite mail.salsalabs.net 16:12 (5 ore fa) a me foe.org Help save the bees, the butterflies, and ourselves: Give $5 today! Dear Shahriar, The bees and the butterflies are in serious trouble, and we need your help to save them. Syngenta is petitioning the EPA to allow the use of even more bee-killing pesticides. Monsanto’s Roundup® is being sprayed all over fields in the Midwest, killing off milkweed -- the only food young monarch butterflies eat. And the EPA just approved the use of Enlist Duo, a toxic pesticide containing 2,4-D -- a key ingredient in the toxic Vietnam War defoliant Agent Orange. This chemical war on weeds is destroying ecosystems and organisms, like pollinators, essential to our food supply. It’s polluting our water and soil. And it’s contaminating and killing crops on organic farms -- harming organic farmers and making organic less accessible and affordable. Why are we poisoning our food system and killing the bees and butterflies? So chemical companies like Dow, Syngenta, Bayer and Monsanto can make more profits. Stop chemical companies from destroying our food system: Give $5 to Friends of the Earth today! With your help, we’re fighting back against the chemical industry. Together, we wrote letters to the editor to newspapers across the country condemning the EPA for its terrible decision to approve Enlist Duo. This week, we’ll join more than 25,000 people to take action at Lowe’s stores across the U.S. and Canada, demanding that the garden retail giant take bee-killing neonic pesticides off its shelves. This campaign is starting to build momentum. More than a dozen garden retailers and companies -- including BJ’s Wholesale and Home Depot -- have made commitments to get neonics off their shelves. And the EPA recently acknowledged that using bee-killing neonics on soybeans doesn’t actually provide any economic benefit to farmers -- confirming the science we’ve known all along. But if we want to truly move our food and agriculture system in a better direction, we have to keep up the pressure. Will you join us? Give $5 to Friends of the Earth and help save the bees, the butterflies and ourselves. With your help, we’ll keep fighting on all fronts to end toxic, corporate-controlled agriculture and move toward a truly sustainable, healthy and just food system. We’ll push Lowe’s and other garden centers to stop selling Bayer and Syngenta’s bee-killing pesticides. We’ll work to get monarch butterflies protected under the Endangered Species Act -- helping to stop Monsanto from destroying their habitat with Roundup®. Meanwhile, we’ll keep working at the federal level to stop the USDA and EPA from protecting the chemical industry by rubber-stamping even more new, dangerous, pollinator-harming pesticides. And we’ll fight to get GMOs in food labeled -- starting with a ballot initiative this year in Oregon. But we can’t do this without you. Give $5 to Friends of the Earth and our work for a food system that benefits people and the planet. Standing with you, Lisa Archer, Food and technology program director Friends of the Earth
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:53:53 +0000
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