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Dear Avaazers,
This has my head spinning. In months, Europe could actually ban the killer herbicide that Monsanto’s entire business model is based on!
Glyphosate kills *everything* except Monsanto’s genetically engineered crops, transforming our planet into ecological wastelands where nothing can live but one GM crop. It’s apocalyptic.
Even worse, its use is skyrocketing, has been found in 90% of our bodies, and a new study says it likely causes cancer!
This month, we won a massive battle to block renewal of glyphosate’s license in Europe. Everyone told us this was impossible, but we changed the game! Leading EU politician Pavel Poc said: “Avaaz is indisputably the driving force on glyphosate”.
The EU will decide on the ban within months. This is the moment – if we all chip in now, we can trigger a plan to fund independent science, keep pressure on leaders sky high, and get a win in Europe that goes global — chip in the cost of a drink or a meal to make it happen:
YES, I’LL DONATE $3
YES, I’LL DONATE $6
YES, I’LL DONATE $12
YES, I’LL DONATE $24
YES, I’LL DONATE $48
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The media is hailing our year-long campaign as having “blindsided” Monsanto, who thought a new glyphosate license was in the bag. But now they’ll be coming at this with everything they’ve got. To meet them head on in the coming months, we need to:
- Fund the independent science that is desperately needed to counter the industry-funded studies.
- Build the pressure on key countries and politicians to stand strong on glyphosate.
- Crucially – articulate the clear, sustainable alternatives to glyphosate-type herbicides — this is key to winning over farmers and politicians.
- Mobilise rapidly for every committee, every council meeting, every backroom bureaucratic process where the EU tries to get out of making a clear decision (we have one of these coming up just this week!)
- Start taking this fight global — the US, Canada, Brazil and a slew of other countries could decide soon whether they also ban glyphosate.
People told us we were crazy when we said the Paris climate summit could change the world, but we dared to hope, pooled our time and money, and we won. Then, they told us we were crazy when we said we could *end* the Monsanto model of chemical agriculture. What happens next, depends on all of us:
YES, I’LL DONATE $3
YES, I’LL DONATE $6
YES, I’LL DONATE $12
YES, I’LL DONATE $24
YES, I’LL DONATE $48
To donate another amount, click here.
Our planet is one tremendously fragile, interdependent ecosystem, and Monsanto’s wasteland agriculture is taking a wrecking ball to it. Scientists say we are likely approaching tipping points in our “biodiversity” where more and more ecosystems begin collapsing, in a cascade reaction that could go beyond our control. As with climate change, we have grown so powerful, and yet remained so unwise, that we are threatening the survival of the planet that sustains us.
Let’s be wiser. We are the front lines of our people’s response to this atrocity against nature, and our future. Every Avaaz victory has flowed from millions of our individual decisions to choose to trust, to hope, and to act. Let’s make that choice together now.
With hope and determination,
Alice and the Avaaz team
P.S. In the next 18 months, the voices of scientists, doctors, and farmers will be crucial. If you are an oncologist, a scientist working in any area relevant to glyphosate licensing, or a farmer that has experience with this pesticide or alternative sustainable methods, please let the Avaaz team know here.
Sources:
Recall of Monsanto’s Roundup likely as EU refuses limited use of glyphosate (The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/06/recall-of-monsantos-roundup-likely-as-eu-refuses-limited-use-of-glyphosate
Nothing we can’t do (Avaaz)
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/nothing_we_cant_do/
What Do We Really Know About Roundup Weed Killer? (National Geographic)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/150422-glyphosate-roundup-herbicide-weeds/
Bill Nye on Glyphosate: ‘We Accidentally Decimated the Monarch Butterfly Population’ (EcoWatch)
http://ecowatch.com/2015/07/22/bill-nye-glyphosate/
The Rise of Superweeds—and What to Do About It (Union of Concerned Scientists)
http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/documents/food_and_agriculture/rise-of-superweeds.pdf |
