A small, brave coalition of beekeepers is taking on
pesticide giants Bayer, Syngenta, and BASF in court to save
the bees.
They’re rapidly running out of money at this
crucial time and they need your help to win this case.
If we lose, it could mean a world where Bayer and its
friends get free rein to sell bee-killing pesticides again
that decimate bee populations.
That would be game over for the bees.
Lawyers are telling us that right
now it could go either way. Earlier this year, SumOfUs members like
you chipped in so beekeepers could hire the best lawyers to win this
case. But lawyers don’t come cheap and now beekeepers are
facing a stack of unpaid bills. They need your donation for the
final stages of the court battle.
Please
will you chip in $1 to save the bees?
We need to protect the bees and other pollinators: over a billion
jobs depend on them, and you have a bee to thank for every
one in three bites of food you eat.
But the threat of large-scale bee-deaths is looming
large thanks to bee-harming pesticides called neonics.
In 2018, SumOfUs members across Europe celebrated a huge
win, when the EU listened to us and decided to protect the bees and
ban three neonic pesticides. But Bayer’s court case threatens that
win.
Bayer is challenging a previous, partial ban on bee-killing
neonics from 2013 -- before we got our big win last year. If Bayer
is successful, it’ll undermine the main arguments that led to last
year’s complete ban, leaving that wide open to be challenged in
court too.
The beekeepers of the Bee Defender Alliance are our main
hope to defeat the pesticide lobby. They are the voice of
beekeepers and independent scientists.
But they’re up against Bayer, Syngenta, and BASF in court --
powerful and wealthy corporations that can strong arm the European
Commission to get what they want.
A donation from you would go a long way towards protecting the
bees -- paying for top notch lawyers and other resources that the
beekeepers need to win.
You
can help defeat the pesticide giants by chipping in to support the
Bee Defender Alliance’s people-powered fight.
We may never have as much money as the big corporations,
but SumOfUs members like you have shown that when we stand
together we punch above our weight.
Hundreds of thousands of you pushed France to become the first
country to ban the chemicals responsible for the global bee
die-off.
Together, we’ve sent beekeepers to confront Bayer’s corporate
executives at its annual shareholder meeting. And we’ve forced big
hardware chains across the world to stop selling neonics.
We then worked around the clock to get Canada to join France in
banning neonics, achieved a European ban on first three then four
toxic neonics, AND we stopped U.S. grocery store giants like Kroger
from selling bee-killing products.
Can
you please chip in $1 to help stop the pesticide lobby from tearing
up this historic win for the bees?
