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Dear Michel,
The coming weeks we will highlight a pesticide scandal every week. We’ll
show that you, your loved ones and the world around you are not
protected against dangerous pesticides. We’ll explain why and give you
texts to send to the politicians who can do something about it.
Especially now, for the coming months are crucial for pesticide
reduction and nature restoration in Europe. Important proposals are on
the table.
Please write to the politicians with our easy tool. We encourage you to
write the same people with a different text every week. They should know
the pesticide authorisation system is as leaky as a sieve: it doesn’t
protect our health and our environment the way it should. Their own PEST
research committee concluded a lot of gaps in 2019, but 4 years later
hardly anything has changed.
We’ll supply you with information and short texts that you can paste
into your message. Of course, you can edit and rewrite these texts the
way you want. Now, it’s especially important to let the decision makers
know that it’s high time for change.
It can and should be done. Do you remember bars and restaurants full of
cigarette smoke, inhaling it even if you didn’t smoke? At the time we
thought it was normal, but it wasn’t. After a long struggle the tobacco
industry lies were exposed, lobbyists were banned. We found out that
smoking is much more harmful than previously thought. Many quit and
smoking was banned from public places. Now you can hardly imagine such a
smelly, unhealthy atmosphere.
Well, that is where we need to go with pesticides. It’s not normal that
dangerous pesticides are spread around us, in the fields and on our
food. That they float into our space, contaminate our food, soil and
water, seriously harm health and biodiversity. It’s not normal that
pesticides are found in our blood and in the dust in our houses. A
toxic-free environment should become the norm, soon.
Time to speak out about this scandal!
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