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SIGN NOW: Tell the EPA to stop using this DEADLY pesticide to protect people, pollinators, and the planet! SIGN NOW: Tell the EPA to stop using this DEADLY pesticide to protect people, pollinators, and the planet! [Please, take action now>>]( Friend, you wouldn’t knowingly drink poison, let alone use it on your plants and food. But what if we told you that a HIGHLY toxic pesticide—so toxic that one sip can KILL an adult— was being used in US agriculture to grow our food? Paraquat, one of the DEADLIEST herbicides in the country, has been known for its toxicity and severe, lethal symptoms after exposure. So severe that it is banned in 67 other countries. But not here… instead, its use in recent years has increased! Exposure to this deadly pesticide has been linked to Parkinson’s disease, kidney, organ, and heart failure. Even cancer! The EPA itself found that there were severe risks to farmers and farmworkers who are exposed to high levels of paraquat on the job -- but the agency continues to approve its use. [We need your help, Friend, to block the use of paraquat immediately. Sign our petition now to demand that the EPA ban this toxic pesticide once and for all! >>]( [Sign the petition]( Cancer-causing glyphosate. Brain-damaging chlorpyrifos. Bee-killing neonics. Now, the use of another toxic pesticide, paraquat, is on the rise. These toxic pesticides are devastating our health, our environment, and our pollinators. Pollinators are responsible for 1 in 3 bites of food we eat. Continued damage to pollinator populations threatens U.S. agriculture and our food system. The use of paraquat continues to rise in agriculture. In fact, its use has more than TRIPLED in the past three decades. Farmworkers are exposed routinely to this toxic pesticide -- increasing their risk of serious health consequences. There are safe, sustainable alternatives to paraquat. Organic farmers never use paraquat nor over 900 other synthetic pesticides. Yet, the EPA continues to allow Big Pesticide companies to produce and use dangerous chemicals on the foods that we eat. [We need to stop the use of this toxic pesticide before it harms more people and continues to inflict irreversible damage on our environment. Your action today, Friend, can bring us one step closer to a safer food system. Will you sign our petition TONIGHT before our 11:59 PM deadline?]( [Sign the petition]( Thank you for taking action against toxic pesticides, Friends of the Earth Contact Us: Friends of the Earth U.S. Washington, D.C. | Berkeley, CA PO Box 7010 Merrifield, VA 22116-7010 1-877-843-8687 [Contact us](foe.org/about-us/contact/) Email Preferences: [Click here to unsubscribe]( Learn more: www.foe.org/news www.foe.org/about-us www.foeaction.org Connect: [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Flickr]( © 2024, Friends of the Earth. All Rights Reserved. [supporter]