Go Organic! Vote with Your Wallet, Vote with Your Fork is a campaign of the Maryland Smart on Pesticides Coalition of 105 organizations and businesses. We’re working to protect our babies, bees and the Bay from adverse impacts of pesticides, while promoting safer alternatives.
Organic Diet Drastically Reduces Glyphosate Levels A new study shows levels of glyphosate (aka Roundup) in families drop dramatically after one week of eating organic A new study done by Friends of the Earth found that levels of the pesticide glyphosate in participants’ bodies dropped......
Going Organic Just Got Easier with the Merryfield App Merryfield is a new app to help you eat and live organically by rewarding organic purchases. While organic food can be more expensive than conventional products, the Merryfield app is a simple way to gain......
Deciding to Go Organic? First Steps to Introducing Organic into Your Diet Making the decision to go organic can be a little perplexing without knowing a place to start off. There are several things to consider before starting, like why are you going organic? Is......
Go Organic Salutes: Safer Biorational/Biopesticides Moving pest management away from toxic pesticides Pesticides vary in their toxicity and in their potential to cause undesirable human and exological impacts. Pest control materials that are effective on the target pest, yet relatively non-toxic wit...
We cast a vote everyday with our wallet and our fork. Protect your health by avoiding pesticide laden food, products and services. Instead, choose organic or pesticide-free alternatives. Each choice is a powerful act that can reduce your toxic chemical body-burden. And, with every dollar you withhold from polluting industries, you’ll be creating greater demand for affordable, clean and organic alternatives.
Even adding a few organic or pesticide-free products can support your, and your family’s, health! Prices have fallen, so that some organic products and services can be little or no more expensive than pesticide reliant conventional products and services. See our Organic On A Budget page for tons of ideas and connections.
Find new suppliers for food (vote with your fork), services and products (vote with your wallet)—and learn the compelling reasons you should choose them. The following website sections will be expanded weekly with lots of new resources to help you move toward a pesticide-free lifestyle. Get started now, with the links below. Go Organic! Vote with Your Wallet, Vote with Your Fork.
Organic on a budget.
Avoid the Dirty Dozen.
Finding clean food.
Farmers market pocket guide.
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Find Eco-friendly diapers,
organic beauty care,
healthy home products.
Safe home pest control.
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New farming trends.
Healthy lawn & garden.
Bee-safe plants, seeds.
Bee-safe pest control.
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Support clean farmers.
Find products, services,
shops and websites.
Guide to “eco” labels.
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Pesticide research library.
Go Organic principals.
Need to know strategies,
i.e. Safe mosquito control.
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On a tight budget?
No worries! Learn
cost-effective ways
to Go Organic,
enjoy the benefits,
on budget.
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Step 1: Pledge your intent
to buy less pesticide-
laden products, to vote with
your wallet & fork. Sign on!
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Join Smart on Pesticides
listserv for action alerts
on Maryland efforts to
reduce toxic impacts.
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