175,000 Ask Hardware Stores to Stop Selling Bee-Killing Pesticides
Our food supply kind of depends on it
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We made a difference when we told Home Depot and Lowe’s to stop selling pesticides that hurt our pollinators, and now we need to go after a few more chains that are killing our bees and butterflies. It’s time to join the 175,000 who have already signed a petition to be delivered to True Value Hardware and Ace, requesting that they stop selling bee-killing chemicals.
We’ve already lost over 42% of our bee colonies in North America. That’s astounding when you consider that bees and other pollinators play such an important role in our food system by enabling the production of so many foods. In total, pollinators make an astounding 35% of global food production possible and contribute more than $24 billion annually to the U.S. economy.
The number of managed honeybee colonies in the United States has declined from 6 million in the 1940’s to just 2.5 million in 2014 – jeopardizing our food supply and domestic agriculture industry. Increasingly, the science points to neonics and glyphosate as huge contributors to the downfall of the bees.
Lowe’s, Home Depot, BJ’s Wholesale, and Whole Foods are already taking steps to remove these pesticides from their store shelves, and more than 20 states, communities, and organizations have already passed measures to limit or ban neonicotinoids.
It’s time to convince Ace and True Value to join them. You can sign the CREDO petition, here.
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Not to worry!. GMO seeds don’t always use pollination. We have GMO forests, GMO foods, etc. Vote for Hillary…she loves Monsanto.
Yes the top scientists in the world haven’t been able to find out for sure what is killing the bees, but wait chrissy is 100% sure. LOL, maybe she should go work in a lab, at least we wouldn’t be subjected to such poor writing.
yes, GMOR, i am sure, also ,about the neonicotinamide bee killing chemistry, and i am also 100% sure that You are a subhuman troll d-bag, but i can’t be LOL about that. there is NOTHING laughable about the support of ecologically monstrous poisons being sprayed all over the planet. Drink some fresh glyphosate; you will do the world a whole lot of good. an ounce a day will do very well. Skoal. Dr. Donn.
It is a shame that you don’t do a little research into what you are complaining about. First for me, if the neonictinoids are proven to be behind the bee decline then I will be among the many wanting to quit using them, but until conclusive proof can be found there is no need to act like a scared little school girl like you seem to be. Secondly, the majority of the Neonicotinoids are not sprayed they are planted. Next, instead of whining about gmos and glyphosate just maybe you should look to see what chemicals they actually replaced. What you will find is that the truly dangerous ones are hardly ever used thanks to these products.
Sigh…
Yes when presented with facts that you have no real answer for I guess that is your solution.