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Kroger updates pesticide policy to protect pollinating species
Kroger (NYSE: KR) released an update to its pollinator policy today encouraging suppliers to move away from pesticides and adopt alternative pest management. The policy states Kroger supports the expa…
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Countdown to extinction at Kroger Annual Meeting
Kroger’s business, and our food system, is dependent on healthy pollinators and ecosystems…
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Environmental and public interest groups demand EPA revoke Monsanto’s license to pollute
Today, environmental and consumer organizations are delivering more than 149,000 public comments to the Environmental Protection Agency advocating for a ban on glyphosate, aka Monsanto’s RoundUp, wh…
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New Report Card Grades Maryland School Districts’ Commitment to Improving Nutrition and Ensuring Access to Safe Water in Schools
Friends of the Earth is excited to partner with Healthy School Food Maryland to encourage school districts to serve more healthy, plant-rich entrees. Emphasizing vegetables, fruits and plant-based pro…
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Press Advisory: Cincinnati protest of Kroger annual shareholder meeting demanding company stop the “bee apocalypse,” join Fair Food Program
Groups including local Ohio organizers, farmworkers from Florida, students and public health, beekeeping, environmental, faith-based and consumer allies will protest at Kroger’s annual shareholder m…
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Kroger Bee Letter
In the spirit of National Pollinator Week, I urge Kroger do its part to celebrate and protect pollinators by committing to eliminate pollinator-toxic pesticides in its conventional supply chain and…
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Customers to demand Kroger stop selling food grown with bee-killing pesticides
To mark National Pollinator Week (June 17-23), more than 10,000 people across the country are joining a national week of action demanding that Kroger (NYSE: KR) help stop the “bee apocalypse.”
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Vermont passes bill to reduce bee-killing pesticides
Environmental advocates applaud as a bill to protect pollinators by reducing pesticides harmful to bees was signed into law.
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California Assembly Approves Nation’s First Plant-Based School Lunch Program
In a first-ever push to support climate-friendly school food, the California Assembly today approved legislation to provide new state funding to reimburse K-12 public schools for the costs of expandin…
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Green New Deal for farming: Address climate crisis and revitalize food system
Our agricultural system is so intertwined with the economic system that is causing the climate crisis that any Green New Deal will need to address how we produce and consume what we eat. That will req…