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Friend,

Did you see the email below? Here’s what you need to know:

1. EWG found chlormequat, a highly toxic new pesticide, in 4 out of 5 people tested. Linked to reproductive health issues in animals, its presence in people and popular oat-based foods like Cheerios and Quaker Oats raises serious human health concerns.
2. A whopping 95 percent of fresh produce samples on EWG’s Dirty Dozen™ had residues of potentially harmful pesticides.
3. Big Ag–backed front groups are stepping up their attacks on EWG, accusing us of “propaganda” and calling our activism “bullying.”
4. EWG is running dangerously short of the funds we need to sustain our efforts to protect your health from toxic pesticides.


We can’t keep up our work and fight industry attacks without your support. I need to give EWG’s finance team a report on our Stop Pesticide Pollution fundraising numbers, but we’re not quite at our goal. We could really use your help right now. Any amount – no matter how small – can make a difference.
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Friend, with the deadline fast approaching, is there any way you can chip in right now to help us keep moving forward?
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Thanks for your support, friend.

Maura Walsh
EVP Marketing & Communications, EWG


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To: [email protected]
From: Research Alert (via EWG.org)
Date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
Subject: Shut down the Dirty Dozen™?
Environmental Working Group
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Stop Pesticide Pollution fundraising drive - Help fight attacks on EWG's work! Donate $15 and get a Dirty Dozen™ / Clean Fifteen™ bag tag! Goal: $100,000 by Earth Day - DONATE NOW
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Wow, friend.

Big Ag is intensifying its attacks on EWG’s work.

Every year, Big Ag and the Alliance for Food and Farming try to discredit our work and shut down the Dirty Dozen™. The AFF has called our pesticide work “fake news” and “anti-fruits and veggies.” Bayer’s Monsanto has called our work “propaganda”!

This year, the AFF claimed that EWG is the “OG food bully.” Absurd!

EWG wants you to know how to protect your health. Big Ag just wants to protect THEIR bottom line by hiding the health harms of toxic pesticides.

EWG has been dedicated to keeping you safe and healthy for over 30 years. But we need your help to fend off these continued attacks on our work.
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We set a goal to raise $100,000 by Earth Day, on April 22, for our Stop Pesticide Pollution Campaign, but we’re falling short. If we can rally 250 donors like you to step up before midnight tonight, we will be back on track.

Can we count on you to make a tax-deductible donation right now? For those generous donors who are able to give $15, we’ll send you our new Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ bag tag as a thank-you.
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The pesticide companies have the inside track with the EPA, trying to keep toxic pesticides on our food. That’s what makes EWG’s work so important: Our goal is to tell consumers the truth about the pesticide industry. Just look at what we’re working on now:

* Stopping an effort by pro-pesticide, pro-chemical corporations like Bayer’s Monsanto to overturn in the next farm bill ALL pesticide regulations set by state and local governments.
* Fighting back against the non-stop attacks on our Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce. The AFF attacked the Dirty Dozen before it was even released.
* Working to ban toxic pesticides like paraquat, which is linked to Parkinson’s disease.


Your donation today will go directly toward our pesticide work. If we don’t hit the $100K fundraising goal, we won’t be able to fight off the attacks and continue to protect your health.

Please make a tax-deductible donation right now. And, if you are able to give $15 or more, we’ll send you our new Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce bag tag as a thank-you.
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Friend, don’t let Big Ag reverse all our progress to protect you from toxic pesticides. Consumers have a right to know about chemicals that may cause cancer, Parkinson’s disease and reproductive health issues.

Thank you for your continued support.

EWG

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