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# Bees: canaries in the coal mine
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/bees_canaries_in_the_coal_mine_0618140342/
- Published: 2014-06-18T16:37:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:29:24.000Z
- Description: A Center for Food Safety fundraising appeal: the group is suing the EPA over its failure to protect pollinators from two bee-toxic pesticides, with Syngenta, Bayer and Valent intervening in the case. Donations are matched through the end of June.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Politics, #vivvo-import

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Readers,

One in every three bites of food we eat depends on a crop pollinated by honey bees.

[**But right now, bees are the canary in the coal mine for our food and ecosystem, sounding the alarm for big problems ahead.**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=oypeQ%2BvDO14hXzLN5fchrJhcavlvbnbu&ref=foodconsumer.org)

Bees are being killed off at an alarming rate because of toxic pesticides used by Big Ag companies. Unless Big Ag changes its ways, soon we’ll see a devastating domino effect in our ability to produce food.

**That’s why Center for Food Safety is engaged in an epic court battle to hold the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accountable for its failure to protect pollinators from two bee-toxic pesticides.** 

Not surprisingly, major players in the chemical industry, including Syngenta, Bayer, and Valent U.S.A., have intervened in the case—**turning this into a David vs. Goliath battle in the courtroom.**

[**We can win this fight but not without your help. Thanks to an anonymous supporter, every donation to Center for Food Safety will be matched until the end of June. That means a $2 donation from you right now becomes $4 to save bees and protect our food.**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wmGR6HYnSSLHEA03R43I%2FpChd%2F7nbEiG&ref=foodconsumer.org)

Thanks for doing your part.

Andrew Kimbrell  
Center for Food Safety

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