*[Enwl-eng] You won!

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            Have you heard the news? Dow’s brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos has been banned in Europe -- thanks to SumOfUs members like you!

            Even after the European Food Safety Authority warned that this neurotoxic chemical was a serious danger to human health -- and especially children -- its makers lobbied hard to keep it legal in the EU.

            But in the end, the EU listened to over 220,000 other SumOfUs members and passed a long-overdue ban on the pesticide, effective at the end of this month!

            Together with our partners in HEAL, Generations Futures, Ecologistas en Acción and the Pesticide Action Network, we’ve made Europe’s fruits and vegetables safer for kids to eat -- and proven to Dow’s lobbyists that their millions are no match for our people power.

            It’s a great way to kick off the year, but we’re not going to stop there.

            We’ve got big plans to take on pesticide corporations in 2020, from banning bee-harming chemicals like sulfoxaflor to finally getting the cancer-linked weedkiller glyphosate out of our food.

            And with amazing members like you on board, we can do it all.

            This big win showed the agrochemical industry what the SumOfUs community can do, but there’s still lots of work ahead of us -- will you set up a regular donation to keep the fight against toxic pesticides going into the new decade?

            Donate $1 monthly
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            No thanks, but I'll make a one-off donation.


            Thanks for all that you do, 
            David, Nabil, and the team at SumOfUs 


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            More information:

            European Union to Ban Chlorpyrifos after January 31, 2020, National Law Review, 4 January 2020
            A victory for future generations – European governments ban brain-harming pesticides chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl, SumOfUs official press release, 6 December 2019
           
              
       
      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. 


      From: David Norton, SumOfUs 
      Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2020 9:44 PM
      Subject: You won!

     

  
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