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To Werner Baumann, Chief Executive Officer: I am alarmed that Bayer-Monsanto has continued to ignore the global call to protect bees and other pollinators. Instead, you have continued to profit by selling neonics -- a class of toxic pesticides that can sicken and kill bees. Bees are vital pollinators that are indispensable to our food supply -- 70 percent of the world's major crops depend in part on these hard-working pollinators. But our bees are dying at an alarming rate, and a leading culprit is a deluge of these poisonous pesticides. And it's not just our bees that are harmed: Neonics are found on much of our fruits and vegetables and can't be washed off. Worse yet, emerging, federally-funded research suggests that exposure to neonics in the womb and by children could be linked to developmental defects, autism, heart deformations, memory loss, and muscle tremors. The European Union and Canada are already reining in this assault on pollinators, the global food supply, and health. But as the largest maker of neonics, you have refused to act responsibly and remove this harmful product from the U.S. market. So, I call on you to stop selling bee-killing neonics immediately. Otherwise, you will face a mounting public outcry against your company.

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