Urge your supermarket to ban all bee-toxic pesticides by 2030

All of the UK’s biggest supermarkets continue to use neonicotinoids and other highly bee-toxic pesticides in their global supply chains. Closer to home, they all spray toxic weedkillers around their stores and car parks.

We are in the midst of a nature crisis with pollinator populations plummeting in the UK and beyond. Pesticides are named as a key driver of these losses. We urgently need supermarkets to step up their efforts to protect bees and other pollinators from these toxic chemicals.

Contact the CEOs of the ten biggest UK supermarkets using our online action. A personalised message is likely to have more impact so feel free to edit the text to explain why this issue is important to you. You can choose to email all UK supermarkets or just the ones you shop in regularly.

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<p>I am writing to you as one of your customers that is deeply distressed about recent news that global wildlife populations have declined by 73% since 1970. I do what I can to protect nature, but you are in a unique position to make a much bigger contribution.</p>
<p>I'd like to highlight two actions in particular that are within your power to take and could make a real difference:</p>
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<li>For the sake of global biodiversity, commit to phasing out the use of neonicotinoids and all other highly bee-toxic pesticides from use within your global supply chains by 2030 at the very latest. Provide support to your suppliers and growers to help them adapt to these changes and adopt non-chemical alternatives.<br><br></li>
<li>To help wildlife closer to home, end pesticide use around all your stores and car parks and allow bee-friendly vegetation to flourish wherever possible. This would follow the lead of supermarkets in France which have all been pesticide-free on their land since 2017. It would be an easy win and hugely popular with your customers and the wider public. In fact, there is currently a chance to be the first UK supermarket to do so!</li>
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<div>Almost 75% of the world's crops depend on pollinators, so not only would you be protecting nature you would also be helping to secure global food supplies which are under threat from the biodiversity and climate crises.</div>
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<div>Please do let me know whether the company plans to implement the measures listed above.</div>
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<div>I look forward to hearing from you.</div>

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