Walmart, True Value to Stop Carrying Bee-Killing Pesticides

In a major shift in the market, retailers Walmart and True Value have announced that they will stop carrying neonicotinoid pesticides due to their possible harmful effects to bees.

Both companies are also ceasing the use of those pesticides in their home and garden sections of the store for the plants they sell.

The two companies joined Costco who has also stopped carrying potentially harmful pesticides on their shelves.

Tiffany Finck-Haynes, Food Futures Campaigner at Friends of the Earth U.S said in a press release, “This is a great day for bees and sends an important message that the market is listening to consumers and sound science in refusing to sell bee-killing pesticides.”

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