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Buy an Organic and Locally Grown Pumpkin

If you're planning to buy a pumpkin this year, consider one that's locally grown and organic or pesticide-free.

By supporting organic agriculture, you're promoting the health of farmworkers as well as the health of streams, rivers, and wildlife.

Among the 32 different types of pesticides used on pumpkins, several-including malathion and diazinon-are known neurotoxins or carcinogens.

If every pumpkin patch in the U.S. chose to go organic, more than 400,000 pounds of chemical pesticides could be eliminated per year.

Sources:

Local Harvest
U.S. Geological Survey


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