Hey Lowe’s, Can You Hear Us Buzzing Now?
Ronnie Cummins- Organic Consumers Assoc.
Hey Lowe’s, Can You Hear Us Buzzing Now?
Earlier this year the OCA, Friends of the Earth and other groups gathered more than a half-million petition signatures to Frank Blake, CEO, Home Depot and Robert Niblock, CEO, Lowe's, asking them to stop selling plants pretreated with bee-killing pesticides.
A representative for Mr. Blake and Home Depot has reached out, and we are in discussions with Home Depot about how to source plants that are not pretreated in deadly neonicotinoids (the pesticide most implicated in the die-off of bees).
But so far, no word from Mr. Niblock or Lowe’s.
A recent study co-authored by the Friends of the Earth and Pesticide Research Institute found that seven out of 13 samples of garden plants purchased at top retailers in Washington D.C., the San Francisco Bay Area and Minneapolis contain neurotoxic pesticides known as neonicotinoids.
Neonics, made by Bayer CropScience and Syngenta, are the fastest-growing class of synthetic pesticides.
They’re also linked to the mass die-off of honeybees.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Robert Niblock, CEO of Lowe’s: Stop Selling Bee-Killing Plants and Pesticides!
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ronniecummins@organicconsumers.or