Demand Lowe’s and Home Depot remove Roundup^® from store shelves!

The science is clear that Bayer-Monsanto’s toxic weedkiller Roundup^® is putting people and pollinators at risk. Yet Lowe’s and Home Depot still continue to sell this pesticide. We need your help to get it off their shelves.

We know that Lowe’s and Home Depot listen to people power. They committed to stop selling plants grown with bee-killing neonic pesticides in response to people like you. With their annual shareholder meetings right around the corner, we need you to push these companies to take a vital step to protect people and the planet from glyphosate.

Lowe's

Customer Care

Lowe's

Home Depot

Customer Care

Home Depot

To whom it may concern:

I'm writing to urge your company to end sales of Roundup® and all products containing glyphosate and to increase offerings of organic and other safer alternatives.

One of your company’s competitors, Costco, has already taken these steps by discontinuing products containing glyphosate from all store locations worldwide. B&Q, one of the largest home improvement stores in the United Kingdom, announced a similar policy in May 2020.

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup®, was determined to be a probable human carcinogen by the World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer and the California Office of Health Hazard Assessment.

In addition to cancer, exposure to glyphosate and the herbicide formulations it is found in has been associated with endocrine disruption, DNA damage, shortened pregnancy, reproductive harm, disruption of the gut microbiome, kidney toxicity, and fatty liver disease.

In the environment, glyphosate is a primary driver of the decimation of Monarch butterfly populations and has also been linked to bee declines. And a recent EPA assessment found that it is likely to harm or kill 93% of endangered plants and animals.

I urge your company to:
•	Establish a time-bound commitment to eliminate all products containing glyphosate from stores and online sales;
•	Increase offerings of organic approved products and other safer alternatives (see the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of active and inert ingredients approved as minimum risk pesticides);
•	Inventory and assess the toxicity of all pesticide products on offer with the aim of ensuring that eliminating glyphosate sales does not lead to increased sales of products with equal or greater toxicity (e.g. formulations with 2,4-D, dicamba, atrazine, etc.), and consequently set goals to decrease overall sales of toxic pesticide products; and
•	Publicize progress toward these commitments to demonstrate that it has taken steps to protect pollinators and human health and will continue to do so.

These actions will build on your company’s leadership on pesticides and will protect pollinator and human health.

Sincerely,
{user_data~First name~A concerned constituent} {user_data~Last name}
{user_data~City}, {user_data~State} {user_data~Postcode}

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Demand Lowe’s and Home Depot remove Roundup® from store shelves!

Demand Lowe’s and Home Depot remove Roundup^® from store shelves!