The Bees Have Won

I follow Avaaz and this one popped into my in-box. There is a lot more to read, but for this blog it will have to be enough because you can read more on their site.

Dear amazing Avaazers,

We just won a total ban on bee-killing pesticides in all 28 EU countries!!!

This fight took 7 years and I am so, so proud of our movement right now! We’ve been cited in hundreds of articles the last few days with media calling Avaaz a “catalyst” of the outcome.

And that outcome is MASSIVE. It’s not just a global tipping point to save the bees - it bans the world’s most common insecticides, pressing industry to develop a whole new model of non-toxic agriculture!

We faced the biggest chemical corporations in the world and used every trick in the book - from a 5 million-strong petition, to crowdsourced funding for scientists, to tracking down ministers on an airport runway.

Here’s the crazy story of how we did it - have a look and let’s take this win global...