Are Your ?Bee-Friendly? Garden Plants Actually Killing Bees?
According to a new study, you may be doing more harm than good when planting ?bee-friendly? gardens. Environmental groups Friends of the 
Earth-US and the Pesticide Research Institute tested a small sample of plants purchased from Lowe?s, Home Depot, and Orchard Supply Hardware, and found that just over half of the plants were pre-treated with neonicotinoid pesticides which known to kill bees. With bee populations continuing to decrease on an alarming level, lawmakers introduced the Save America?s Pollinators Act, which would direct the EPA to ?suspend use of the most bee-toxic neonicotinoids for use in seed treatment, soil application, or foliar treatment on bee attractive plants within 180 days, and to review these neonicotinoids and make a new determination about their proper application and safe use.? Because pollinators are so crucial to our food system, this bill is beyond necessary. Click here to tell your member of congress to support the Save America’s Pollinators Act.
Tell Dr. Weil: Get the GMOs out of Supplements!
Healthy lifestyle guru Dr. Andrew Weil has stated that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) cause ?ranges of health problems? in animals. He 
has also been in favor of GMO labeling because consumers should have the right to know if products contain GMOs. Why then does Weil Lifestyle LLC, belong to Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) ? the top donor so far to the campaign to defeat a GMO labeling initiative in Washington State, and a major contributor ($2 million) to the campaign that last year defeated Proposition 37, a similar GMO labeling initiative in California. Beyond that, Weil Lifestyle sells supplements that contain GMOs. Unlabeled. Click here to tell Dr. Weil and Weil Lifestyle LLC to get the GMOs out of supplements and support GMO labeling in Washington state!
Tell Congress to Label GE Food!
We have a right to know what is in our food, yet we are currently prevented from knowing which food items contain genetically modified 
ingredients. That?s why Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) have sponsored new federal legislation,?The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act,?that would require the labeling of all GE foods; the first labeling bill to be introduced in the Senate in over a decade! ?To date,?ten Senators and thirty Representatives have signed on to the bill as original co-sponsors.?Now it?s time to push all Senators and Representatives to support the bill!?Without mandatory labeling of GE foods, consumers are being left in the dark about the foods we are purchasing and feeding our families. There is?overwhelming public demand?consistently near 95%?for the labeling of GE foods.? Yet?the U.S. is one of the only developed countries in the world that doesn?t require labeling. Already in 2013,?37 GE labeling bills have been introduced in 21 states, including Hawaii, Washington, Indiana, Missouri, and Vermont, with many more expected by year?s end. ?Tell Congress it?s time to finally pass a GE food labeling bill in 2013.?
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