> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.foodconsumer.org/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Tell Congress to Suspend Bee-Toxic Pesticides - URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/suspend_bee-toxic_pesticides_0616141022/ - Published: 2014-06-16T23:17:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-22T16:29:23.000Z - Description: The Center for Food Safety asks readers to urge their Representative to back the Saving America's Pollinators Act, which would suspend neonicotinoid insecticides on plants attractive to bees until reviews show they are safe and require agencies to track native bee populations. - Author: Food Consumer - Tags: Politics, #vivvo-import [DONATE](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gm46S6s2jaUCmlM1oOVKUahpV0e2jZME&ref=foodconsumer.org) **Today marks the start of National Pollinator Week, and** [**we need Congress to get serious about protecting bees and other pollinators**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JZgoRVBqigsknDJ0DksOfqhpV0e2jZME&ref=foodconsumer.org)**.** Bees are responsible for pollinating a third of a food, and they are in serious trouble, largely because of bee-toxic pesticides called “neonics.” You may have heard of neonics before - neonics are the most widely used insecticides in the world, and exposure to neonics has become a key culprit in bee population losses. Last summer, 50,000 bumblebees were killed in a parking lot in Oregon by these very chemicals. In December, the European Union began a two year ban on most neonics. We need to take similar swift action by suspending the use of these chemicals until proven safe to our critical pollinators. **Thankfully,** [**the Saving America's Pollinators Act seeks to do precisely that.**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nPZJIKKA7tp7%2FNFQJa5VWqhpV0e2jZME&ref=foodconsumer.org) **This bill calls for the suspension of neonics on plants attractive to bees until a full review of scientific evidence indicates they are safe and a field study demonstrates no harmful impacts to pollinators.** This much-needed legislation also requires our government agencies to monitor the health of native bee populations, and to identify and publicly report the likely causes of unusual bee kills. [**Tell your Representative to support the Saving America's Pollinators Act and protect our bees!**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AOVZpVfiPst%2Fuq6PdtBldqhpV0e2jZME&ref=foodconsumer.org) Thanks for everything you do, Center for Food Safety PS – Join us for an eTownhall tonight and all week long on Twitter and Facebook! **Monday, 6/16: eTownhall, live streaming 6pm PT/9pm ET** *"What's the buzz about?: A conversation about bee declines, impacts on our food system & what you can do about it."* Co-sponsored by Center for Food Safety, this event will be live streamed from the Berkeley Food Institute. To RSVP & receive the streaming link, please go to [http://bit.ly/BeeTownHall](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9GliS%2BjeLjNVS5T6yoGbq6hpV0e2jZME&ref=foodconsumer.org). And be sure to submit questions for the panelists during the event via Twitter with the hashtag #BeeChat. **Daily Twitter chats, 10am PT/1pm ET, #pollinatorchat** Each day of Pollinator Week, we'll be investigating a different topic in our Twitter chat. Join the conversation online with the hashtag #pollinatorchat. Check out our [website](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hrVIgxCsRcjVjlSOU4GYBahpV0e2jZME&ref=foodconsumer.org), [Twitter](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Gg5JHURGhPwxlLBGe%2FV0NYd5J%2BRdgzui&ref=foodconsumer.org) and [Facebook](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DckMLraqBupRRaXjzzi9nId5J%2BRdgzui&ref=foodconsumer.org) pages every day to see the **daily winners of our second annual Pollinator Photography contest.** **Contact Us** CFS welcomes your questions and comments. Please contact us at [office@centerforfoodsafety.org](mailto:office@centerforfoodsafety.org), or at one of our offices. National Headquarters 660 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, #302 Washington, DC 20003 Phone [(202) 547-9359](tel:%28202%29%20547-9359) | fax[(202) 547-9429](tel:%28202%29%20547-9429) [www.centerforfoodsafety.org](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=w4ww%2BY0AgcMGghrVavfL%2Bod5J%2BRdgzui&ref=foodconsumer.org)