Comments on: The Generous Pumpkin http://www.helladelicious.com/our-food/food-facts/2009/10/the-generous-pumpkin/ Local Food. Global Flavor. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:58:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: hellaD http://www.helladelicious.com/our-food/food-facts/2009/10/the-generous-pumpkin/comment-page-1/#comment-6820 hellaD Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:19:10 +0000 http://www.helladelicious.com/?p=3443#comment-6820 Thanks for your questions. Be sure you get your pumpkins from an organic or biodynamic farmer. It is important to know where they come from. You are right to be concerned depending on where you live. DDT use was discontinued in the US many years ago so there isn't much to worry about in the US. In various other countries DDT use has continued until much more recently and it is a good idea to know where you pumpkins come from in those cases. I wouldn't eat a pumpkin from Vietnam for example. Thanks for your questions.

Be sure you get your pumpkins from an organic or biodynamic farmer. It is important to know where they come from. You are right to be concerned depending on where you live. DDT use was discontinued in the US many years ago so there isn’t much to worry about in the US. In various other countries DDT use has continued until much more recently and it is a good idea to know where you pumpkins come from in those cases. I wouldn’t eat a pumpkin from Vietnam for example.

]]> By: Gary Hedden http://www.helladelicious.com/our-food/food-facts/2009/10/the-generous-pumpkin/comment-page-1/#comment-6817 Gary Hedden Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:16:34 +0000 http://www.helladelicious.com/?p=3443#comment-6817 Hello, Just read a post dated 2 Oct. 2009 that pumpkins are good for you for a number of reasons and then further in the article that pumpkins pull DDT out of the soil. Hmmm. This is not so good. How do we know if the pumpkins we buy are safe? How much DDT is in the contaminated pumpkins? How dangerous is the DDT that we might be eating in our pumpkin pie? Is it safe for our kids to get their hands in the pumpkin when we make jack-o-lanterns? Just wondering, Gary Hedden Hello,
Just read a post dated 2 Oct. 2009 that pumpkins are good for you for a number of reasons and then further in the article that pumpkins pull DDT out of the soil. Hmmm. This is not so good. How do we know if the pumpkins we buy are safe? How much DDT is in the contaminated pumpkins? How dangerous is the DDT that we might be eating in our pumpkin pie? Is it safe for our kids to get their hands in the pumpkin when we make jack-o-lanterns?
Just wondering,
Gary Hedden

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