*[Enwl-eng] The bees need you now

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      We all care about bees because we know our fate is linked to theirs. 
But they are dying as companies like Bayer-Monsanto make sure farmers can’t 
survive without their bee-killing pesticides. This could change if we reach 
one million signatures by Thursday.

      We are so close, sign now!
Hi,

Bees are dying out. Big pesticide producers like Bayer-Monsanto will do 
anything to increase their sales and bottom-line, and they are forcing the 
hands of farmers. The only way for farmers to succeed in this intensive, 
industrial agriculture system is to use pesticides that kill the bees.

We need bees because they pollinate one-third of the food we eat. 
Pollination is essential to our lives because our fruits, vegetables, and 
the crops that feed livestock require pollination to be fertilised. Without 
bees, there would literally be no food! [1]

And we have little time to prevent bee populations from disappearing. That’s 
why we’re supporting a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to radically 
change our agriculture for the better, restore our ecosystems, and protect 
our farmers and bees.

We’re asking for all pesticides to be phased out. It’s a big ask, but if 
more than ONE MILLION of us sign, the EU Commission and our MEPs will be 
legally obligated to meet us and address our demands -- and we're nearly 
there.

            Sign now to save the bees!


Intensive agriculture (made possible by synthetic pesticides) has destroyed 
the diversity of the Earth’s nature. That diversity is essential for 
sustainable agriculture and protecting our climate. Thankfully, nature 
recovers quickly when we take decisive action to bring back wildlife and 
abandon the use of synthetic pesticides. But we have to act now, before it’s 
too late.

For decades, billions of euros worth of public and private funds have been 
poured into the pockets of pesticide producers. All while those producers 
have convinced our politicians to ignore the negative effects pesticides 
cause on bees, the environment and on our health. But finally, our leaders 
are starting to wake up to our calls because of people’s mobilisations.

Following calls from millions of Europeans in 2018, the EU agreed to a 
near-total ban on neonicotinoids, a specific kind of pesticide that harms 
the central nervous systems of bees. [2] And all of this on the back of a 
new law that the EU approved in 2019, increasing transparency throughout the 
pesticide approval process! [3]

But we can’t just keep banning individual types of pesticides! Our public 
resources ought to fund research to allow agriculture to prosper and bees to 
thrive, while also rebuilding our dying ecosystems. And to do that, we need 
to phase out synthetic pesticides altogether.

            Sign now to rebuild our ecosystems!


Our WeMove Europe community has been at the forefront of the struggle for 
sustainable agriculture in Europe. Now, with this ECI we have a real chance 
to push for a truly different and sustainable agricultural model for Europe 
and the world. Will you join us?

David (London), Virginia (Madrid), Alex (Marseille), and the entire team at 
WeMove Europe



P.S. Because this campaign is a European Citizens’ Initiative, you’ll have 
to enter your details in a two-step process. The ECI is like an official EU 
petition, so it requires more information than we’d normally ask from you to 
sign a petition. Please fully complete the ECI form in order to have your 
signature counted and verified by your national government.



References:
[1] 
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/bee-decline-dying-out-honeybees-uk-food-production-extinction-a6939266.html
[2] In 2017, our community launched an ECI to ban glyphosate with a large 
coalition of partners across Europe. While we didn’t get an EU-wide ban on 
glyphosate, we won major changes to the EU transparency of the pesticide 
approval procedure which were passed into law earlier this year. For more 
information about ECIs, see the EU website here: 
https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/welcome
[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43910536



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From: David - WeMove Europe
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 2:47 PM
Subject: The bees need you now

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