Bees Swarm Major Breadmaker’s Events Over Pesticides

Last weekend, bees attended Bimbo’s Global Energy Race to deliver a message to the world’s largest breadmaker: stop using food grown with dangerous pesticides.

Bimbo’s 10k run and 3k walk were corporate events with a message of health. In fact, Fred Penny, president at Bimbo Bakeries USA, said prior to the race, “The pursuit of health and well-being is no longer a trend — it has become a social imperative around the world.”

We couldn’t agree more. That’s why activists in Philadelphia and Long Beach told Bimbo that the real finish line must be a healthy Earth.

We dressed as bees for the race, because bees are responsible for about 80% of pollination worldwide and are being killed by pesticide use. Just in the last year, the United States lost 44% of honey bee colonies — a significant jump from the year before.

Pesticides are problematic for other reasons too — they end up in our bodies from the food we eat, are particularly dangerous to farm workers and contaminate our land and water.

We need major brands like Bimbo to transition to eco-agriculture so that we can have healthy land, healthy food, and healthy people.

Add your voice to the more than 100,000 people who have asked Bimbo to cut the pesticides from its ingredients and help fix our broken food system.