ACTION ALERT
Before It’s Too Late
Last week, First Lady Michelle Obama finished planting her sixth-annual White House Kitchen Garden. But this year, she did something different. She planted a pollinator garden to attract and support 70,000 bees already gracing the presidential lawn, as well as monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
It’s great that the First Lady is doing her part to create a habitat for bees at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But what we really need, before it’s too late, is a ban on the toxic pesticides and herbicides that are responsible for killing off huge populations of honeybees all over the world.
Mrs. Obama is in a great position to help us achieve that, by using her ‘Gardener-in-Chief’ status to influence her husband and Congress to pass a law to protect pollinators. But will she step up?