Bayer, the global chemical company, is manufacturing a chemical that new evidence shows is killing off bees.

Fighting for people over profits



Bayer: Withdraw neonicotinoids from the market.

Goal: 50,000

Bayer, the global chemical company, is manufacturing a chemical that new evidence shows is killing off bees.
The global die-off of bees represents an enormous danger to the planet.
30% of our crops -- and 90% of wild plants -- rely on bees to thrive. Without bees, our entire global food supply is in serious trouble.

Bayer has paid for biased research that “proves” its chemical isn’t a
problem. But now independent scientists in Europe has discovered that
Bayer’s chemical is a high risk to bees.

The chances are high that most of us reading this email have bought a
Bayer product at least once. It makes everything from Alka-Seltzer to
Berocca to flea treatments for pets. Bayer knows that it needs to keep
its customers happy. If it realises that its customers are up in the
arms about the European research findings that show their chemical is
killing bees, it will have to put its chemical from the market.

Tell Bayer it needs to pull its bee-poisoning pesticide off the market now.

The dangerous chemical Bayer makes is a neonicotinoid. Neonicotonoids
are soaked into seeds, spreading through the plant and killing insects
stopping for a snack. These pesticides can easily be replaced by
different chemicals which don’t soak so deeply into our crops. But
companies like Bayer make a fortune from selling neonicotinoids - so
they’ll do everything they can to protect their profit.

It’s not just bees that are hurt by these chemicals. Research on rats found that neonicotinoids may also hurt human health, especially the developing brain.
But as with the bees, we don’t know as much as we should about the
health hazards, because companies like Bayer spend millions on research
which muddies the water with biased studies. For Bayer, people’s health
plays a distant second to their huge profits.

Members of the European Parliament are calling for an outright ban on these toxic chemicals. But we don't know when or if they'll pass the ban, and Bayer's global reach threatens bees across the planet. That's why we need to use our power as citizen-consumers to push Bayer to pull the poison now.


Source:-
http://action.sumofus.org/a/bayer-bees/117/269/?akid=1265.740720.0jl-3g&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=4