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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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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…
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California bans brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos, helps farmers transition to safer alternatives
By outlawing chlorpyrifos, California joins New York and Hawaii in putting public health and the environment over corporate profits. We call on the state to work as swiftly as possible to cancel the r…
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Vermont passes bill to ban consumer use of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides
The Vermont Legislature today passed a bill banning consumer use of neonicotinoid pesticides by July 2019. During the legislative session, thousands of Friends of the Earth members in Vermont called a…
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World Faces Ecological Collapse Unless Urgent Action Taken, Says Devastating Global Assessment
The world faces ecological collapse and mass extinctions unless dramatic action is taken to change social and economic systems, according to a global assessment launched today by The Intergovernmental…
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New York Passes Bill to Ban Dow’s Brain-Damaging Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
New York’s deadline for ending the use of chlorpyrifos will make it the first state to stop use of the chemical. In banning this dangerous chemical, New York legislators are prioritizing public heal…
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Study shows pesticide levels drop dramatically after 1 week of eating organic
Can eating organic really reduce levels of pesticides in our bodies? A new peer-reviewed study published in the journal Environmental Research found that switching to an organic diet significantly red…
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I’ve been a farmworker all my life. Here’s why you should buy organic food
Like millions of farmworkers who have labored in America’s fields and orchards, I know what it’s like to grow the food we eat using toxic pesticides.