OUR bees are dying in unsustainable numbers, and it is because of overuse of pesticides. +SumOfUs .org has an ongoing petition campaign calling on Lowe's and Home Depot to stop selling pesticides, especially Bayer pesticides, as they are the main cause of the bee die-off. Please add your name to the 556,000+ others on the petition, just click the link......
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 Lowe's 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 this petition to Lowe's 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?
Click here to tell Home Depot and Lowe's to stop killing bees.
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More information:
CNBC: Bee activists swarm Home Depot and Lowe's, 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.
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