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<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400"><BIG>Bees are dying out. Our food supply
and our survival as a species is truly at stake. Our broken,
profit-centred agriculture has to change. <B>Call on the EU to save bees
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<P><BIG>Hi,</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><B>Bees are dying out.</B> 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 <B>pesticides that kill the
bees.</B></BIG></P>
<P><BIG><B>We need the bees because they pollinate one-third of the food we
eat.</B> Pollination is essential to our lives because our fruits, vegetables,
and the crops that feed livestock require pollination to be fertilised.
<B>Without bees, there would literally be no food!</B> [1] </BIG></P>
<P><BIG><B>And we have little time to prevent bee populations from disappearing.
That’s why we’re supporting a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI)</B> to
radically change our agriculture for the better, restore our ecosystems, and
protect our farmers and bees.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><B>We’re asking for all pesticides to be phased out.</B> 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. There’s already big
momentum on pesticides -- glyphosate will soon be re-evaluated by the EU and
more and more citizens are calling to protect the bees. [2]</BIG></P>
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<P><BIG><B>Intensive agriculture (made possible by synthetic pesticides) has
destroyed the diversity of the Earth’s nature. That diversity is essential for
sustainable agriculture</B> and protecting our climate. Thankfully, nature
recovers quickly when we take decisive action to bring back wildlife and abandon
the use of synthetic pesticides. <B>But we have to act now, before it’s too
late.</B></BIG></P>
<P><BIG><B>For decades, billions of euros worth of public and private funds have
been poured into the pockets of pesticide producers.</B> All while those
producers have convinced our politicians to ignore the negative effects
pesticides cause on bees, the environment and on our health. But <B>finally, our
leaders are starting to wake up to our calls because of people’s
mobilisations.</B></BIG></P>
<P><BIG>Following calls from millions of Europeans last year, the EU agreed to a
near-total ban on neonicotinoids, a specific kind of pesticide that harms the
central nervous systems of bees. [3] Just last month,</BIG><SPAN
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it will not renew the license for another pesticide</SPAN><BIG>. [4] And all of
this on the back of a new law that the EU approved earlier this year, increasing
transparency throughout the pesticide approval process! [5]</BIG></P>
<P><B><B><BIG><B>But we can’t just keep banning individual types of
pesticides!</B> </BIG></B></B><BIG>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, </BIG><B><B><BIG><B>we need to phase out
synthetic pesticides altogether.</B></BIG></B></B></P>
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<P><BIG>Pesticide producers argue that we can’t phase out pesticides, or else
the price of food will skyrocket. </BIG><B><BIG><B>But the highest price we
could ever pay for our food is the destruction of our planet for future
generations to come. And that’s the price they’re already producing and selling
unsustainable, cheap food for</B> </BIG></B><BIG>-- we pay for it through
burning our forests, polluting our water, eroding our soil, contaminating our
air.</BIG><B><BIG> <B>And killing the bees.</B></BIG></B></P>
<P><BIG>Our WeMove community has been at the forefront of the struggle for
sustainable agriculture in Europe. </BIG><B><BIG><B>Now, with this ECI we have a
real chance to push for a truly different and sustainable agricultural model for
Europe and the world. <A
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rel=nofollow>Will you join us?</A></B></BIG></B></P>
<P><BIG>David, Virginia (Madrid), Alex (Marseille), and the entire team at
WeMove Europe</BIG></P>
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<P><BIG>PS: Because this campaign is a European Citizens’ Initiative, you’ll
have to enter your details in a two-step process. <STRONG>The ECI is like an
official EU petition, so it requires more information than we’d normally ask
from you to sign a petition. <A
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rel=nofollow>Please fully complete the ECI form</A> in order to have your
signature counted and verified by your national government.</STRONG></BIG></P>
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<P><SMALL>References:<BR>[1]
https<SPAN>://www.independent</SPAN>.<SPAN>co</SPAN>.uk/environment/bee-decline-dying-out-honeybees-uk-food-production-extinction-a6939266.html<BR>[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<SPAN>://ec</SPAN>.<SPAN>europa</SPAN>.eu/citizens-initiative/public/welcome<BR>[3]
https<SPAN>://www.bbc</SPAN>.<SPAN>co</SPAN>.uk/news/science-environment-43910536<BR>[4]
In October 2019 the EU agreed to not renew the license for thiacloprid --
another bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticide:
https<SPAN>://www.euractiv</SPAN>.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-will-not-renew-authorisation-of-bee-killer-substance-thiacloprid/<BR>[5]
https<SPAN>://www.euractiv</SPAN>.com/section/agriculture-food/news/choir-of-approval-over-new-eu-food-safety-transparency-rules/</SMALL></P>
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