SumOfUs web donation strategists have profiled them and build their campaigns and communications on the weakness of vulnerable individuals. Just one more click to save the bees!
Choose a box and your donation will immediately go to stopping big industry. If you can just help us, we can continue to have incredible wins. Such language is aimed to take advantage of compulsive people with weaknesses much like an unscrupulous drug dealer would push another hit on an addict. Promoting immediate gratification in an emotional context — that is my definition of exploitation. There is something very vulgar and immoral about how these opportunistic wolves are fleecing the innocent, vulnerable naturopath congregation.
Then again, SumOfUs shared out more than 4. Never mind. Evil needs a face, goodness needs a halo — these lovely people have first names, families and dreams just like me — they are our heroes! Nicely done. The links are not to scientific sources about bees but to news organisations that only lightly refer to the key vocabulary the SumOfUs focus groups and data analysts determined would be effective. In fact, the English-language Dutch news regenerator not even the original source claims that sugar beets have no effect on bees, so even the source SumOfUs chose undermines what they are trying to raise a fuss about.
There was no mention of lobbyists working around the clock or evil mega-corps — just Dutch farmers concerned about having to use a lot more pesticides to replace the banned neonics.
In fact, the article states that the Belgian case to exempt sugar beets from the neonic ban was introduced by a government agriculture minister. Does SumOfUs consider government ministers as evil lobbyists or are they just making shit up to scare vulnerable people. After reading a letter like this, if you were quite naive you would imagine that SumOfUs is an open, honest and charitable organisation committed to doing what is right on behalf of humanity.
Holding corporations accountable would imply that SumOfUs think accountability is important. Today, being accountable is often considered as being transparent. I would imagine that SumOfUs, as the summation of humanity, must be quite transparent with what they do with all of our money. SumOfUs is anything but transparent. Nobody knows how much they spend on their campaigns seriously, how much will a few ads cost in local Belgian or Dutch newspapers?
I have shown in an earlier blog how there is very little scrutiny of NGO financing and how these groups seem to be able to move cash from one group to another with no oversight.
Curiously, as of today, they have not bothered to register. So SumOfUs were contacted last October to be informed they should register, and still they stuck their finger in the air at the European Commission.
What a band of unethical hypocrites transparocrites! Like Like. Five euros is not a big risk and if they are wrongly using it that will be their problem. So here is a shorter message: Farmers are no longer planting oilseed rape in northern climates without access to neonics and this is denying bees a valuable early spring source of pollen.
Thanks for the article David — I fully understand your frustration and people should have open discussion about such organizations like SumOfUs, but I also understand Paulo.
Seems like David here might have an agenda himself…? I am from Canada and I find myself in a difficult situation. I want to stop my monthly donation to sumofus. I cannot call as it is only a U. I cannot find a valid email address. I was going to send a letter to both addresses, but would it do any good.
How did you get out of this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many people have complained about this — one person told me he got no support and was so angry he decided to cancel his credit card a bit extreme. Perhaps you can contact your credit card company and complain about their practises — they should be able to block their access. SumOfUs is a small organisation of IT experts that have automated most of their activities, including mail and fundraising so getting a response will be difficult.
Good luck. Thank you for your speedy response. I have to figure out what to do now, but I appreciate knowing they are just scamming people.
It would help. Like Liked by 1 person. Hi Dyanne, My situation was a little different. I did not willingly donate. My information was stolen from somewhere I know there was at least one data breach where I purchased something online, but who knows! I had an extremely hard time at making SumofUs understand this and they played games for quite a while with the back and forth of almost playing dumb! I started with my bank by canceling the card and freezing my account temporary and requesting a new card.
Then I tried calling the SumofUs number on the charge on my bank statement that was a joke! Red Flag there! The way they responded to me on Facebook messenger was another red flag, and it then continued to email at their request. I kept screenshots of everything and records from my bank. The only thing I could really find was posts on Facebook. I wasted enough time I found nothing that said they were doing anything legitimate and the conversations I had back and forth helped with that gut feeling I had all along.
Also, the thing that bothered me originally with Facebook messenger is the first few messages I sent, they were reading and ignoring. They might have a solution for you or the next step would be to just cancel your card and request a new one.
I have to agree with Paolo. These corporations do the exact same thing….. Keep up the good work, watchdoggers! Are you mad? Someone needs to tackle the rampant use of pesticides and the destruction of the rain forests to grow bio fuels to reduce carbon emissions to save the planet. Show me a realistic alternative?
Who pays you to share rubbish such as passengers lives are being saved by the use if weedkillers….. And you buy their story with your credit card every month? Someone needs to stop toxic chemicals being pumped into the environment and the food chain. Neonicotinoids affect not only bees but many other insects, not least the pollinators. A major problem is the lack of accountability. The only access channels that work are those that take your money.
All of which suggests that SOU is a cynical, but eloquently phrased, scam. I have had my doubts about SumOf Us. Thanks for your research and information. I checked your opinion on the use of neonicotinoides on sugar beet. But farmers do use it against insects that eat leaves or other plant parts.
Sugar is in fact a very cheap food ingredient, which can easily be grown organically. At last i woud like to ask you what is your interest to write these blogs? Who is paying you? Thanks for your comment. You are combining many crops and different pests — something an agronomist should be careful about. Interestingly, oilseed rape canola production in the northern EU countries has sharply declined with continued crop losses following the neonic seed treatment ban the cabbage stem flea beetle was devastating crops — taking OSR out of farm rotations has meant that bees no longer have the much-needed early spring source of nourishment and farmers who still try to grow it are using older, more toxic foliar applications.
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