PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Pesticides deadly to bees are present in plants that are sold by Lowes and Home Depot. The seeds are soaked in the poison and it permeates the whole plant. Please be careful when you buy plants or pesticides for your gardens. Our bee population is suffering greatly from neonic pesticides. Whole hives are disappearing and we need our pollinators. Let’s keep our city and surrounding area pollinator friendly. We need our bees and many beekeepers are giving up because they are having to replace their hives every year. We just purchased two new hives and are faithfully feeding them every day to build them up for the summer. Please don’t expose our little pollinators to pesticides! Our bees travel up to three miles to work in your gardens. These pesticides have already been banned in Europe and other countries! ~ Patty Baker Bees are dying in record numbers -- and we know whats killing them. Tell Home Depot, Lowes and other retailers to stop selling bee-killing pesticides now! Sign the petition Patricia, Bees are dying off around the world in record numbers-- but big retailers are still selling the poison that is killing them. Last season, 37 million bees (!) died on a single North American farm. Scientists now know why – study after study shows that deadly pesticides called neonics, manufactured by Bayer, are killing them. Home Depot and Lowes are still selling the deadly pesticides, but pressure is mounting. If one of the stores commits to stop carrying the pesticides, it could start a snowball effect that sees rival stores drop the bee-killing chemicals too. In just two weeks, SumOfUs activist beekeepers will travel to deliver our petition to the corporations on their home turf. Can you add your name now, so the retailers see the tide of public opinion and commit to stop selling bee-killing pesticides? Tell Home Depot and Lowe’s to stop selling bee-killing pesticides. Earlier this year, SumOfUs supporters called on these retail giants to stop selling neonics, with thousands flooding their phone lines and speaking out in store. Now, weve learnt that Home Depot could be on the cusp of doing the right thing and taking the bee-killing chemicals off its shelves. We need to send a message to tip Home Depot over the edge, and pressure its rival Lowes to act as well. The dangerous chemical Bayer makes is a neonicotinoid, or neonic. Neonics are soaked into seeds, spreading through the plant and killing insects stopping by for a snack -- and sold in garden stores around the world, too. These pesticides can easily be replaced by other chemicals which don’t have such a devastating effect on the food chain. But companies like Bayer and Syngenta make a fortune from selling neonics -- so they’ll do everything they can to protect their profits. History shows that consumer pressure on retailers works. Europes partial ban on neonics was caused by a huge movement that pushed some of the biggest retailers in the EU to voluntarily remove neonics from their shelves. If we can make sure that Home Depot and Lowes drop neonics, smaller North American retailers are bound to follow. But there is not a moment to lose. Please take action now to keep the pressure on Home Depot and Lowes so we can protect our bees and our planets future Call on Home Depot and Lowe’s to get rid of the bee-killing neonics. SumOfUs has been right at the front of the global campaign to save our bees. We came together to fight Bayer at a huge independent garden store show in Chicago, where the German chemical maker was out in force. Were taking legal action in Europe to defend the EUs ban against Bayer, and just last week spoke out at Bayers annual shareholder meeting in Germany. But to win this fight, we need to push the retailers to drop these bee-killing pesticides now. Thank you for being one of us, Taren, Paul, Angus and the team at SumOfUs.org More information: CNBC: Bee activists swarm Home Depot and Lowes, 14 February 2014 Mother Jones: 3 New Studies Link Bee Decline to Bayer Pesticide, 29 March, 2013 SumOfUs 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. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3.
Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2014 13:34:18 +0000