Europe’s wild bees are in a death
spiral – and the EU is about to make it much worse.
The European Commission is
proposing changes that would allow unlimited
approvals for ALL pesticides –
with no mandatory safety reviews and no requirement to consider new
scientific evidence on the harmful impacts of the chemicals in these
products.
If this passes, toxic
chemicals could stay in the market forever!! Unless we stop
it.
Bayer and industry lobbyists are
working hard behind closed doors to rush this through before the
public catches on. Our best chance is to overwhelm the
Commission with thousands and thousands of our voices demanding they protect bees, nature, and
people – NOT Bayer’s profits.
Tell the EU Commission: NO unlimited pesticide
approvals!
Wild bees pollinate a third of our
crops. Without them, we would lose apples, tomatoes, and countless
other foods we rely on. Their survival is our survival. And
pesticides are decimating whole populations of them. In the last
decade, the number of wild bee species at risk of extinction has
more than doubled.
The Commission’s proposed changes would accelerate their
deaths and cause untold harm to people for generations to
come. They would allow open-ended
approvals, eliminate mandatory review of new scientific evidence,
and double the time banned pesticides can stay in the market after
they’re ruled too dangerous for use.
This would be the biggest rollback on pesticide
protections the EU has ever seen.
It’s critical we act now – while we can still
influence what happens next.
Together, we’ve won many bans on
dangerous pesticides and forced some of the world’s biggest
companies to pull their products from the market. If we come
together now, we can push the Commission to do the right thing and
defend the laws that protect all of us from toxic
chemicals.
Tell the EU Commission: NO unlimited pesticide
approvals!
