All the progress you and I have made to keep bees safe from toxic
pesticides… what if it just
disappeared?
Countries including Belgium,
Spain and Romania want to pretend our Europe-wide
ban on bee-killing neonicotinoids never happened. Using an
"emergency" loophole, they're allowing tonnes of the banned
chemicals to be sprayed on crops that could end up on our plates.
Even in the midst of the pandemic, Belgium granted a
new re-authorisation for one of the toxic neonics, thinking we'd be
too distracted to notice! If we don't act to stop this, our
ban will be useless -- and the bees will suffer the
consequences.
We've already called on the EU to stop
countries from breaking the ban. Now it's time to double
down by putting pressure on individual governments to protect the
bees -- before it's too late.
Tell
Romania, Lithuania, Spain, Belgium, Poland and Finland to stop using
bee-killing neonicotinoids!
It's not small, struggling farmers who want to keep Europe's
fields full of banned pesticides -- it's megacorporations
like Bayer and Syngenta, who're behind many of the so-called
"emergency" requests for neonic exemptions.
They
claim that crops like corn and sugar beets can't be grown without
neonics -- but Germany, France and Sweden have all rejected
applications to re-authorise the bee-killing pesticides. If
they can grow crops without killing bees, other countries can too!
Our food system doesn't need toxic
pesticides to thrive -- but it does need bees. Will you act
now to save them?
Tell
Romania, Lithuania, Spain, Belgium, Poland and Finland to stop using
neonics.
Unfortunately, pesticide bans aren’t always enough to
protect our crucial pollinators. Bayer, Syngenta and co.
have millions to spend on court cases, government lobbying, anything
to keep churning out litre after litre of their bee-harming
chemicals.
But with our combined people power, we’ve got a real
chance of stopping them. Over 150,000 of us showed the EU
we’d had enough of fake “emergency” exemptions to our bee-saving
neonicotinoid ban. Hundreds more SumOfUs members chipped in so that
the Bee Defender Alliance, a group of independent scientists and
beekeepers, could take on Bayer in court to fight and defeat the
pesticide giant’s latest legal challenge to the ban.
We can’t give up until our bees are safe. So please, will
you help get all European governments to uphold this important
pesticide ban?
Tell
Romania, Lithuania, Spain, Belgium, Poland and Finland to stop using
bee-killing
neonicotinoids!