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  • 2024 Bee-Friendly Retailer Scorecard

    To spur a race to the top, Friends of the Earth created a retailer scorecard to benchmark 25 of the largest U.S. grocery stores on pesticides.

  • 2024 Retailer Scorecard

    Without pollinators, grocery shelves would run short of a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables, nuts, and beans.

  • Economic Risks of Pesticides

    The U.S. food retail sector’s use of pesticides on just four crops could result in $219 billion in financial risks between now and 2050.

  • New Roundup, New Risks

    Friends of the Earth’s analysis finds that, on the fiftieth anniversary of its commercialization, Roundup sold to consumers is more toxic than ever before.

  • 2022 Bee-Friendly Supermarket Scorecard

    Without pollinators, grocery shelves would run short of a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables, nuts, beans, and delicious favorites like chocolate and coffee.

  • Toxic Acres

    Since neonicotinoid insecticides were rst intro- duced in the 1990s, U.S. agriculture has become 48 times more toxic to insect life, according to a new study in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One.

  • Organic for All: Results of the Organic Diet Biomonitoring Study

    In this peer-reviewed study, we compared pesticide levels in the bodies of four American families for six days on a non-organic diet and six days on a completely organic diet. We found that an organic…

  • Toxic Secret: Pesticides Uncovered

    Friends of the Earth and our allies across the country conducted this testing to discover if pesticide residues are present in foods commonly eaten by children and families found at the top four food…

  • Gardeners Beware: Bee-Toxic Pesticides Found in "Bee-Friendly" Plants Sold at Garden Centers Across the U.S.

    New report finds 28 percent decrease in toxic pesticides in “bee-friendly” plants and shows that retailer commitments are shifting the market.

  • Gardeners Beware 2014

    Two-thirds of the food crops humans eat every day require bees and other pollinators to successfully produce a crop. However, the health and productivity of honey bees, bumble bees, and other pollinat…