Tell The Atlantic to send DowDuPont packing

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Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00
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Dear PAOV,

DowDuPont is greenwashing again. And sadly, The Atlantic is helping them do it.

This Thursday, the national magazine and media company will host Harvest: Transforming the Food We Eat, in New York City. This “conversation about the future of food” includes no farmers, and has a single sponsor: the Agricultural Division of DowDuPont.

If you’re on Twitter, tweet to The Atlantic that this is unacceptable:

TweetHey @TheAtlantic, what are you thinking? Ask farmers about the future of food, not pesticide giant @DowDuPontCo! #PesticideTreadmill #AtlanticHarvest

Here are just a few of the many reasons partnering with DowDuPont to explore the future of food is a bad idea:

  • For years, Dow Chemical has promoted the GE/herbicide cropping systems that serve no one’s interests but their own.
  • As a solution to the “superweed” crisis created by Monsanto’s RoundUp-ready crops, Dow introduced new GE seeds designed for use with their drift-prone, dangerous herbicide 2,4-D.
  • Last spring, Dow pressed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reverse course on a planned ban of their controversial, brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos.

This corporation’s vision for the “future of food” is crystal clear: to pad its bottom line by keeping farmers on an endless pesticide treadmill.

Please click on the tweet above to ramp up the pressure on social media if you’re so inclined. If you’re not a Twitter user, send an email directly to the editors of The Atlantic, urging them not to partner with DowDuPont for the “Harvest” event.

Thank you for standing up and speaking out!


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